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Toward a new language of legal drafting

Computers and Society 2015-07-20 v1 Digital Libraries
Authors: Matthew Roach
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Abstract

Lawyers should write in document markup language just like web developers, digital publishers, scientists, and almost everyone else

Keywords

legal drafting document markup language lawyers digital transformation structured authoring

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@article{arxiv.1507.05081,
  title  = {Toward a new language of legal drafting},
  author = {Matthew Roach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05081},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Stanford University LLM 2015

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