Contracts include enforceable legal promises. The parties agreeing to the contract and someone enforcing the contract have no real basis to judge when the contract is complete without the presence of ...

Charlemagne supposedly said that to have another language is to possess a second soul. As AI quietly standardizes legal language across industries, it may be creating exactly that: a second soul for ...

(CN) — Massachusetts Institute of Technology cognitive scientists believe they have uncovered the long sought answer to why legal documents are written in a style that makes them notoriously difficult ...

Legal language has an unfortunate reputation for many reasons. Since legal style clings to archaic words, structures and non-standard grammar and punctuation, it remains out of step with modern ...

As the climate talks in Paris came to a conclusion this past December, some contention arose around the use of a five-letter word: “shall.” Whether rich countries “shall” or “should” contribute money ...

The interrelationship between law and language is manifestly powerful. Once it touches the sacrosanct body of law, even an ordinary word used by a lay person may have the potential of offering varied ...

It is time to accept the long-standing demand of the Department of Official language on use of regional languages in High Courts Communication of justice is as important as the determination of ...

Last week, the UC Berkeley School of Law’s Pro Bono Program launched its first-ever Language Access Directory, an initiative designed to bridge the “persistent” language barriers in legal access. “You ...