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Understanding Legalese in Law School by Jerome Oppus is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses the issues with legalese, or legal language. It identifies some key characteristics of legalese including archaic vocabulary, redundancy, abstraction, indirectness, and long complex sentences. It provides examples of legalese and simplified alternatives. While legalese may seem like a necessary shorthand for lawyers, the document argues there is no rational justification for it and it makes legal documents needlessly difficult to understand. Law students are encouraged to translate l
- Author
- Jerome Oppus
- Language
- EN