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The suppression of legalese

open access: yes, 2021
El legalés es un neologismo de moda en Brasil, para designar el uso innecesario y excesivo de la jerga jurídica y los términos técnicos del derecho.
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Matrix of technical solutions based on artificial intelligence in the professional training of future lawyers

open access: yesВестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки
Importance. The current stage of technological development of society is characterized by the intensive integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into professional spheres.
P. V. Sysoyev   +2 more
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Overcoming Language Barriers in Contracts – A South African Perspective

open access: yesBRICS Law Journal
Language forms the basis of written contracts, but the use of language may also function as a barrier to contracting parties, particularly when the parties are not proficient in the commercial language of choice, such as English in the case of South ...
M. van Eck
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Linguistics meets "legalese": syntax, semantics, and jury instruction reform

open access: yesLSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts, 2014
<p>Our research, reported here last year (Randall 2013), demonstrated that low comprehension of six current Massachusetts jury instructions could be improved with Plain English versions.  We found a significant difference in the proportion of t/f questions correctly answered by ≥ 90% of subjects hearing either Current or Plain English ...
Janet H. Randall, Lucas R. Graf
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On compliance of business processes with business contracts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper addresses the problem of ensuring compliance of business processes, implemented within and across organisational boundaries, with the constraints stated in related business contracts.
Governatori, Guido   +3 more
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Why Contracts are Written in 'Legalese'

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
Business contracts have been reviled since before the Marx Brothers' infamous 'there ain't no Sanity Clause' sketch as being replete with duplicative, cumbersome, inartful, and sometimes imprecise language. My article seeks to understand why practice apparently hasn't made perfect - why business contracts are not as clear, and only as long, as would ...
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Crowd-Sourcing Fuzzy and Faceted Classification for Concept Search

open access: yes, 2014
Searching for concepts in science and technology is often a difficult task. To facilitate concept search, different types of human-generated metadata have been created to define the content of scientific and technical disclosures.
Absalom, Richard   +3 more
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A corpus-driven study on legal translation challenges among Arab law students: examining gender and academic level in applied legal linguistics

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study introduces Applied Legal Linguistics (ALL) as a praxis-oriented framework that integrates linguistic theory, corpus-based analysis, and legal discourse studies to address the pedagogical, translational, and communicative challenges of legal ...
Dalia M. Hamed, Naif Alqurashi
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First Information Report (FIR) as a Distinct Genre of Legalese: A Corpus-based Forensic Analysis

open access: yesUniversity of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature
Forensic linguistics deals with the use of linguistic knowledge to help solve crimes. It is an interface between language, crime, and the law. A First Information Report (FIR) is the first step in the criminal justice system to decide crimes.
Shaheen-ul-Zaman   +2 more
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