Add to ORKGIn 1965 Reed Dickerson, Professor of Law at the University of Indiana Law School, wrote the classic Fundamentals of Legal Drafting, published by Little Brown and Co., Boston, a book that has become the most referred to of all books on legal drafting. Little Brown and Co. will soon be publishing Professor Dickerson\u27s Second Edition of Fundamentals of Legal Drafting. With the permission of the author and the publishers, the Michigan Bar Journal and the Plain English Committee are pleased to present excerpts from a chapter in the Second Edition regarding plain English statutes and readability
For a legal system to succeed, its laws must be available to the public it governs. This article loo...
As is well known, the Plain language movement has been influential in a number of areas of public li...
Ever-expanding use of the legislative process in recent years has resulted in a vast proliferation o...
In 1965 Reed Dickerson, Professor of Law at the University of Indiana Law School, wrote the classic ...
In 1965 Reed Dickerson, Professor of Low at the University of Indiana Law School, wrote the classic ...
Studies have shown that traditional legal writing has four main characteristics: it is wordy, unc...
The history of England has left its mark on legal English, a language for specific purposes well kno...
This thesis seeks to establish whether plain English offers a complete, a partial, or no solution to...
For centuries, lawyers have been notorious for long-winded writing filled with legalese, hyper-techn...
The charge that we lawyers cannot write plain English is often supported by the quality of our legal...
Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing...
The hypothesis of this paper is that plain language drafting with innovative drafting techniques can...
Professor Johnson argues in favor of, and then provides an example of, a trust drafted in plain Eng...
In this article Professor Dickerson examines some of the most basic problems facing the legislative ...
As is well known, the language of the law tends to be relatively conservative in its style when comp...
For a legal system to succeed, its laws must be available to the public it governs. This article loo...
As is well known, the Plain language movement has been influential in a number of areas of public li...
Ever-expanding use of the legislative process in recent years has resulted in a vast proliferation o...
In 1965 Reed Dickerson, Professor of Law at the University of Indiana Law School, wrote the classic ...
In 1965 Reed Dickerson, Professor of Low at the University of Indiana Law School, wrote the classic ...
Studies have shown that traditional legal writing has four main characteristics: it is wordy, unc...
The history of England has left its mark on legal English, a language for specific purposes well kno...
This thesis seeks to establish whether plain English offers a complete, a partial, or no solution to...
For centuries, lawyers have been notorious for long-winded writing filled with legalese, hyper-techn...
The charge that we lawyers cannot write plain English is often supported by the quality of our legal...
Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing...
The hypothesis of this paper is that plain language drafting with innovative drafting techniques can...
Professor Johnson argues in favor of, and then provides an example of, a trust drafted in plain Eng...
In this article Professor Dickerson examines some of the most basic problems facing the legislative ...
As is well known, the language of the law tends to be relatively conservative in its style when comp...
For a legal system to succeed, its laws must be available to the public it governs. This article loo...
As is well known, the Plain language movement has been influential in a number of areas of public li...
Ever-expanding use of the legislative process in recent years has resulted in a vast proliferation o...