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So much for plain language: An analysis of the accessibility of U.S. federal laws over time.

Journal of experimental psychology. General
Over the last 50 years, there have been efforts on behalf of the U.S. government to simplify legal documents for society at large. However, there has been no systematic evaluation of how effective these efforts-collectively referred to as the "plain ...
Eric Martínez, Francis Mollica, Edward Gibson   +2 more
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Legal Aid decision letters and plain language: advice for the vulnerable

2014
This paper responds to research on the production of decision letters sent to citizens who have applied for legal aid to Legal Aid Queensland (LAQ), the Queensland organization funded by the Federal government of Australia and the state of Queensland to help socially and financially disadvantaged people.
Proellocks, Dorothy, Petelin, Roslyn
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Christopher Williams, The impact of plain language on legal English in the United Kingdom. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xi + 206. ISBN 9780367457297.

English Language and Linguistics, 2023
Mark Adler
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Plain Language: Improving Legal Communication

European Journal of Law Reform, 2014
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La vulgarisation de l’information juridique: Reconnaissance et mise en oeuvre de la vulgarisation juridique en France (Plain legal language in France: Recognition and implementation in France)

, 2013
N. Lahlou
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Plain Legal Language through Translation: A Comparison of Swiss, EU and Italian Legislative Texts

2022
Drafting clear and accessible legislation has become a major concern in different monolingual and multilingual institutional settings. In multilin-gual contexts, where different language versions of official publications are developed through translation, legislation tends to be more accessible, as noticed by linguists, as well as translation and legal
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Plain writing in the legal field: An approach from the discourse of specialists

Discourse Studies, 2020
Paulina Meza, Carmen López-Ferrero, Felipe Gonzalez-Catalan   +2 more
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Writing library database descriptions in Plain Language

College and Undergraduate Libraries, 2022
Roxanne Backowski
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Plain language and the law (and robots): the impact of Large Language Models on language use in legal dissemination settings

Legal language is an infamously complex specialized language for non-expert law users. For decades, research in Natural Language Processing has strived to develop tools that automatically measure the complexity of legal texts or summarize complex legal texts.
Bouyé, Manon, Vacher, Jonathan
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THE LANGUAGE OF LEGAL RULES SOME NOTES ABOUT PLAIN-MEANING IN LAW

2013
This essay examines the common opinion that there is a close relationship between the indeterminacy of legal language and hard cases. The analysis begins with Frederick Schauer’s conception of plain meaning in law in order to argue that the co-existence of hard and easy cases in a legal system is independent of the written or unwritten nature of the ...
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