Careful communication is frequently of central importance in law. The language used to communicate even with oneself in private thought profoundly influences the quality of that effort; but when one attempts to transmit an idea to another, language assumes even greater significance because of the possibilities for enormously distorting the idea. Word-skill is to be prized. Few have expressed this more aptly or succinctly than Wesley N. Hohfeld: ...[I]n any closely reasoned problem, whether legal or nonlegal, chameleon-hued words are a peril both to clear thought and to lucid expression
Language plays two roles in acquiring knowledge of foreign law. One is obvious - it provides access ...
“Professionalism as a personal characteristic is revealed in an attitude and approach to an occupati...
People explain things to each other every day using both writing and speech. Communicating Rights ex...
Careful communication is frequently of central importance in law. The language used to communicate e...
Careful communication is frequently of central importance in law. The language used to communicate e...
A-HOHFELD is a representational language used in MINT (Multiple INTerpretation) Interpretation-Assis...
Style and substance cross-are genetically related as we now might want to say. Each draws on and is ...
Philosophy of law can gain from a good philosophical account of the meaning and use of language, and...
textabstractThe law does not, and could not, exist in an intellectual or linguistic vacuum. No one b...
By far the most testy moments of the conference arose out of the following problem. The Supreme Cour...
This paper aims at analyzing the multiple relations be- tween natural, every-day language and the la...
This thesis explores problems with legal communication as a social problem in which discourse and th...
The form of a legal act is determined by the competent body that adopts it, the appropriate procedur...
This thesis seeks to establish whether plain English offers a complete, a partial, or no solution to...
In this paper, the author intends to present an approach against lengthy contracts, judgements, and ...
Language plays two roles in acquiring knowledge of foreign law. One is obvious - it provides access ...
“Professionalism as a personal characteristic is revealed in an attitude and approach to an occupati...
People explain things to each other every day using both writing and speech. Communicating Rights ex...
Careful communication is frequently of central importance in law. The language used to communicate e...
Careful communication is frequently of central importance in law. The language used to communicate e...
A-HOHFELD is a representational language used in MINT (Multiple INTerpretation) Interpretation-Assis...
Style and substance cross-are genetically related as we now might want to say. Each draws on and is ...
Philosophy of law can gain from a good philosophical account of the meaning and use of language, and...
textabstractThe law does not, and could not, exist in an intellectual or linguistic vacuum. No one b...
By far the most testy moments of the conference arose out of the following problem. The Supreme Cour...
This paper aims at analyzing the multiple relations be- tween natural, every-day language and the la...
This thesis explores problems with legal communication as a social problem in which discourse and th...
The form of a legal act is determined by the competent body that adopts it, the appropriate procedur...
This thesis seeks to establish whether plain English offers a complete, a partial, or no solution to...
In this paper, the author intends to present an approach against lengthy contracts, judgements, and ...
Language plays two roles in acquiring knowledge of foreign law. One is obvious - it provides access ...
“Professionalism as a personal characteristic is revealed in an attitude and approach to an occupati...
People explain things to each other every day using both writing and speech. Communicating Rights ex...