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Comprehension of legal contracts by non-experts: Effectiveness of plain language redrafting
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 1994AbstractThe primary motivation behind the advocated use of plain language in legal documents is to increase comprehension among non‐experts. We report empirical evidence regarding the effectiveness of three kinds of simplification of standard legal contracts for increasing comprehension among naïve readers.
Michael E J Masson
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A Text Type-Specific Approach to Plain Legal Language and its Implications on Machine Translation [PDF]
Pázmány Law Review, 2023 Most characteristics of the legal language go against the idea of plain legal language. However, there are huge differences regarding the extent to which these characteristics are manifested in various legal text types. That said, the need for plain legal language usage is also subject to the type of the given text.
Balogh Dorka
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Transforming Norms: Legal Design, Plain Language and AI for Personalized Law [PDF]
What good is a law if its subjects are unaware of its existence or impact? As personalized law – legal rules tailored to individual circumstances – emerges as a transformative paradigm, it is crucial to critically assess both its promises and pitfalls.
Nina Toivonen +2 more
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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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Writing library database descriptions in Plain Language
College and Undergraduate Libraries, 2022 Plain Language is writing intended to be easily comprehensible by its intended audience. Used in government, legal, medical, and now educational writing, the primary goals of Plain Language are greater usability and equitable access. Current practices of
Roxanne Backowski
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Plain Language in Legal Studies
European Journal of Law Reform, 2014Plain Language in Legal Studies: A Corpus-Based Study This article investigates the influence of Plain Language in legal academic research. The Plain Language Movement (PLM) in Anglophone cultures and Common Law systems considerably affected the way legal experts and practitioners use the language in professional contexts, both in writing and
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Legal Language vs. Plain English: Clear Communication in Legal Documents
International Journal of English Language, Education and Literature Studies (IJEEL)This abstract explores the inherent tension between traditional legalese and the principles of plain English in the creation of legal documents. The legal profession has relied on a specialised vocabulary, complex sentence structures, and often archaic phrasing.
Dr Shubha Vats, Rachena Devi
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‘The Impact of Plain Language on Legal English in the United Kingdom’ Christopher Williams (2023)
The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 2023The Impact of Plain Language on Legal English in the United KingdomChristopher Williams (2023)Routledge, 206 pp
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The limits of plain legal language: understanding the comprehensible style in law
International Journal of Law in Context, 2019AbstractThe comprehensible style of legal texts seems to be a predominantly linguistic problem. This is how the plain-legal-language movements present it. But, while plain-language statutes have been on the agenda for decades in every civilised country, laws still become more and more complicated. The paper attempts to explain this controversy.
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