Articles published under International Journal of Legislative Drafting and Law Reform

Editorial

I am very happy to have been asked to write an EDITORIAL for the Volume 10 of the International Journal of Legislative Dra

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Are Statutes Literary Works Protected by Copyright in Nigeria?

In an effort at legislative response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nigeria’s National Assembly introduced a widely criticised Infectious Diseases Bill that is an exact rep

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Copy and Paste Law-making: Legislative Plagiarism and the Question of Ownership of Copyright in Statutes

Law-making process involves much ingenuity on the part of the lawmakers. Laws are made to suit the local circumstances of the territory the law is to be applied. A proposed Bill is involved in a

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Is Copying Law Plagiarism? Are you Kidding Me?

Plagiarism is a well-known concept. It refers to “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.” The Black’s Law Dictionary defines it as “the deliberate an

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Protection of Legislative Texts Under the Nigerian Copyright System

Virtually every legal system of the world provides for the protection of intellectual property rights. Intellectual property rights, essentially, are legal rights resu

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Understanding and Resolving Legislative Plagiarism: A Pragmatic Approach

Plagiarism aside its demonstration of lack of competence and selfishness of the perpetrator, has the potential for a more damaging outcome when confidence and reliance is placed on a plagiarised

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“The Patchett Method of Transplant of Bills and Legislation to avoid Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement”

“The production of a Government’s programme Bill (legislation) is to take a culinary analogy, rather like the production of a cake by a firm of bakers - it all depends on the ingredi

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