During his stay in the US from May 8-15, Minister Cuong and his delegation had working sessions with relevant US agencies, including the House’s and the Senate’s Judiciary Committees, the Department of Justice, the Supreme Court, the State Department, the Department of the Interior, the National Archives, the Office of the Federal Register and the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives.
The delegation also worked with California’s Office of Administrative Law and law firm Backer & McKenzie.
At the working sessions, the delegation was presented with the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) history and CFR’s institutional arrangements, the concept of positive law codification, the structure and objectives of codification bills and other codification issues.
Both sides discussed handling of codification bills and parliamentary procedures for their passage and other lawmaking procedures, current legal-judicial reforms in the US and Vietnam.
Minister Cuong also had discussions with leaders of the Department of Justice and the State Department on other legal issues of mutual concern.