Clarifying Legal Drafting by Well-Structuring It: An Improved Version of the PLAIN LANGUAGE Game

In order to be plain, language should be well-structured. This is the theory upon which the PLAIN LANGUAGE Game is based. It provides those who aspire to be legal drafters with practice in constructing well-structured statements - a useful skill for expressing clear legal norms. You have already encountered the underlining of part of the term \u27well-structured\u27, \u27PLAIN LANGUAGE\u27 and \u27norm\u27, and may be wondering about it The underlining of the first two letters of each word of a term indicates that the term is a defined term and that it is being used in its defined sense. Thus, a well-structured statement has the property of being well-structured in a defined sense of the term \u27well-structured\u27. The term is defined by the following contextual definition. A statement is well-structured, IF AND ONLY IF the relationships between its constituent sentences are expressed by defined structural terms