German Society for Legislation

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesetzgebung e.V. (DGG), or German Society for Legislation, is a non-profit registered association based in Bonn, Germany. It was entered in the Bonn register of associations on 15 October 1987, following a founding call signed by more than fifty known politicians, civil servants, and university professors. The society brings together members of parliament, ministerial officials, university teachers, lawyers, association staff, and other professionals, as well as citizens interested in critically reviewing and constructively changing legislation. Its stated purpose is to promote the academic disciplines concerned with lawmaking, improve practical legislation, and foster general understanding of legislative questions and problems. The DGG pursues these goals by clarifying scientific and practical questions of legislation, supporting research into legal, methodological, procedural, and technical problems of lawmaking at federal, state, and municipal levels, publishing and disseminating practical and scientific findings, advocating greater attention to legislative theory in research, universities, and further education, promoting contacts among members, and participating in national and international development of legislative theory. The society publishes its work in the "Zeitschrift für Gesetzgebung" (Journal for Legislation), and board members are involved in editing the series "Beiträge zum Parlamentsrecht" (Contributions to Parliamentary Law). It works closely with sister organizations in Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, and elsewhere. In 1991 it took the initiative to found the European Association of Legislation (EAL), which was expanded in 2008 and re-founded as the International Association of Legislation (IAL). On 8 February 2012, the DGG merged with its partner organization GFE (Gesellschaft für Effizienz in Staat und Verwaltung e.V.), which shared the goal of promoting discourse and activities on reducing bureaucracy. The merger was unanimously approved at an extraordinary general meeting. The DGG awards a Prize for Good Legislation for outstanding examples of legislative work; the first prize in 2014, for example, went to the Model Law for Intellectual Property. The board includes chairman Günter Krings and members such as Herbert Helmrich, Rainer Funke, Dieter Grimm, Jürgen Hensen, Ulrich Karpen, Fritz Rudolf Körper, Hans-Jürgen Papier, and Norbert Röttgen. Advisory board members include Hans Dieter Beck, Dirk Brouër, Karl Heinz Däke, Evelyn Haas, Hans-Günter Henneke, Jutta Limbach, Georg-Berndt Oschatz, Heribert Prantl, Hans-Martin Schmidt, Bernhard Töpper, and Wolfgang Zeh.

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesetzgebung e.V. (DGG) was founded in 1987. A founding call was signed by more than fifty known politicians, civil servants, and university professors, and the association was entered in the register of associations in Bonn on 15 October 1987. From the outset, the DGG brought together a cross-section of professionals involved in lawmaking: members of parliament, ministerial officials, university teachers, lawyers, association staff, and other interested citizens. Its statutory purpose is to promote the academic disciplines concerned with legislation, improve practical lawmaking, and foster general understanding of legislative questions and problems. The society pursues these aims by clarifying scientific and practical questions of legislation, supporting research into legal, methodological, procedural, and technical problems of lawmaking at federal, state, and municipal levels, publishing and disseminating findings, advocating greater attention to legislative theory in research, universities, and further education, promoting contacts among members, and participating in national and international development of legislative theory. The DGG publishes its work in the "Zeitschrift für Gesetzgebung" and board members are involved in editing the series "Beiträge zum Parlamentsrecht". It works closely with sister organizations in Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, and elsewhere. In 1991, the DGG took the initiative to found the European Association of Legislation (EAL), which was expanded in 2008 and re-founded as the International Association of Legislation (IAL). On 8 February 2012, the DGG merged with its partner organization GFE (Gesellschaft für Effizienz in Staat und Verwaltung e.V.), which shared the goal of promoting discourse and activities on reducing bureaucracy; the merger was unanimously approved at an extraordinary general meeting. The DGG awards a Prize for Good Legislation for outstanding examples of legislative work; the first prize in 2014 went to the Model Law for Intellectual Property. The board includes chairman Günter Krings and members such as Herbert Helmrich, Rainer Funke, Dieter Grimm, Jürgen Hensen, Ulrich Karpen, Fritz Rudolf Körper, Hans-Jürgen Papier, and Norbert Röttgen. Advisory board members include Hans Dieter Beck, Dirk Brouër, Karl Heinz Däke, Evelyn Haas, Hans-Günter Henneke, Jutta Limbach, Georg-Berndt Oschatz, Heribert Prantl, Hans-Martin Schmidt, Bernhard Töpper, and Wolfgang Zeh.

• 2014

  First Prize for Good Legislation awarded to the Model Law for Intellectual Property.

• 2012

  On 8 February 2012, merged with partner organization GFE (Gesellschaft für Effizienz in Staat und Verwaltung e.V.) by unanimous vote at an extraordinary general meeting.

• 2008

  EAL was expanded and re-founded as the International Association of Legislation (IAL).

• 1991

  Took the initiative to found the European Association of Legislation (EAL).

• 1987

  Founding call signed by over fifty known politicians, civil servants, and university professors; association entered in the Bonn register of associations on 15 October 1987.

Non-profit, non-partisan association for improving legislation and legislative theory in Germany and internationally.

• Zeitschrift für Gesetzgebung

  Journal in which the DGG publishes the results of its work.

• Beiträge zum Parlamentsrecht

  Book series co-edited by board members.

• Prize for Good Legislation

  Award for outstanding examples of legislative work; first prize 2014 went to the Model Law for Intellectual Property.

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2. 2Über uns – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesetzgebung e.V.dggev.de
3. 3Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesetzgebung – Wikipediade.wikipedia.org
4. 4Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesetzgebung – Wikidatawikidata.org