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Published in The Clarity Journal 54 – 2005 Introduction As part of the conference on “Clarity and Obscurity in Legal Language” in Boulogne, we organized two panels of expert drafters — two master classes. We thought it would be interesting and instructive to see how different experts approached the same drafting assignment. In this issue, […]

In this issue : How the European Commission drafts legislation in 20 languages The European Central Bank’s approach to drafting legislation in 20 languages The effect of poorly written legislation in a bilingual legal system Producing multilingual legislation in Switzerland Linguistic oddities in European Union legislation: don’t shoot the translator Just fix the English plain […]

In this issue : Legal writing: some tools Drafting readable laws Advice from the Deep South D MacDonald Disclosure overload: lawyers are the problem, not the solution D Hyndman Plain language means better regulation R Grotsky Plain language: its effects on organizational performance Know your rights: a plain language series illuminates legal issues for seniors […]