Legal Drafting By Design

Author : Richard K. Neumann Jr.,J. Lyn Entrikin
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781454897774

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Legal Drafting by Design by Richard K. Neumann Jr.,J. Lyn Entrikin Pdf

Designed for upper-level survey legal drafting courses, this groundbreaking text explains drafting using a common vocabulary that applies to any legal document based on a fundamental rule structure, including statutes and other forms of public drafting as well as contracts and other forms of private drafting. This unified drafting approach gives students a common denominator approach to drafting all kinds of legal documents. In addition, students can use the techniques they’ve learned to deconstruct, interpret, and revise any kind of legal document composed of rules. This common-sense approach of teaching/learning a single vocabulary and set of skills to use in drafting any rules-based legal document is an innovative model for U.S. legal drafting courses, though it has been used in other countries for decades. Key Features: A unified approach that teaches students the general skills of drafting rules of law—duties, discretionary authority, and declarations, including their conditions in legal tests. Practice applying those skills to drafting a range of documents, including contracts, statutes, regulations, and other. Coverage of how courts interpret the rules and how to draft anticipating what the courts will do. An understanding of how law governs human behavior through the rules that students learn to draft. A wide range of classroom exercises on the detail of drafting. Additional drafting assignments, for use in and out of class, that help students learn how to use the rules and to accomplish clients’ goals.

Author : Teresa J. Reid Rambo,Leanne J. Pflaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 1611639514

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Legal Writing by Design by Teresa J. Reid Rambo,Leanne J. Pflaum Pdf

"The second edition of Legal Writing by Design remains unique in demonstrating how to transform thoughts into writing by explaining the link between thinking and writing. It doesn't just tell the reader to 'argue by analogy' or to 'apply the rule' - it explains the design of the thinking involved in those processes and shows how to transform that design into writing"--Unedited summary from book cover.

Author : Mr.Victor Thuronyi
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1557755876

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Tax Law Design and Drafting, Volume 1 by Mr.Victor Thuronyi Pdf

Edited by Victor Thuronyi, this book offers an introduction to a broad range of issues in comparative tax law and is based on comparative discussion of the tax laws of developed countries. It presents practical models and guidelines for drafting tax legislation that can be used by officials of developing and transition countries. Volume I covers general issues, some special topics, and major taxes other than income tax.

Author : Howard Darmstadter
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 159031977X

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Hereof, Thereof, and Everywhereof by Howard Darmstadter Pdf

"This update of Howard Darmstadter's witty, accessible guide to legal drafting reminds practitioners how best to choose their words, to compose clear and succinct sentences, to lay out their documents, and to decide which documents best serve a given scenario. This book may be unconventional, but it is a vital element of any lawyer's library."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Meera Klemola,Astrid Kohlmeier
Publisher : Meera Klemola and Astrid Kohlmeier
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9529447256

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The Legal Design Book by Meera Klemola,Astrid Kohlmeier Pdf

The go-to guide for on legal design for practitioners seeking to innovate and create exceptional user experiences, products and services for legal business and society.

Author : Jane Rutherford,Susan L. Brody,Laurel A. Vietzen,John C. Dernbach
Publisher : Aspen Publishers
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : 0735516936

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Legal Drafting by Jane Rutherford,Susan L. Brody,Laurel A. Vietzen,John C. Dernbach Pdf

This dynamic paperback text presents a highly effective, classroom-tested process for legal drafting. Prepared with this practical strategy, students will move beyond merely filling in the blanks to create the customized documents clients need, and adapt preexisting forms to new uses. Divided into two parts, the text first introduces the process approach to legal drafting before applying that approach to particular types of documents. This two-part organization easily adapts to your specific course needs and gives you great flexibility in choosing and combining chapters. The book's seven chapters cover an introduction to legal drafting, the process of legal drafting, careful writing, and drafting estate planning, contracts, pleadings, and legislation. In addition, numerous examples, illustrations, and exercises in every chapter reinforce the skills your students need to draft provisions from scratch, edit existing provisions, and create entirely new documents. Each substantive chapter concludes with a document, annotated with editorial comments that illustrates the drafting process.

Author : Victor Thuronyi,Kim Brooks
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041167200

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Comparative Tax Law by Victor Thuronyi,Kim Brooks Pdf

Although the details of tax law are literally endless—differing not only from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but also from day-to-day—structures and patterns exist across tax systems that can be understood with relative ease. This book, now in an updated new edition, focuses on these essential patterns. It provides an immensely useful introduction to the core common knowledge that any well-informed tax lawyer or policy maker should have about comparative tax law in our times. The busy reader will welcome the compact nature of this work, which is shorter than the first edition and can be read in a weekend if one skips footnotes. The authors elucidate the commonalities and differences across countries in areas including (much of the detail new to the second edition): • general anti-avoidance rules; • court decisions striking down tax laws as violating constitutional rules against retroactivity, unequal treatment of equals, confiscation, and undue vagueness; • statutory interpretation; • inflation adjustment rules and the allowance for corporate equity; • value added tax systems; • concepts such as “tax”, “capital gain”, “tax avoidance”, and “partnership”; • corporate-shareholder tax systems; • the relationship between tax and financial accounting; • taxation of investment income; • tax authorities’ ability to obtain and process information about taxpayers; and • systems of appeals from tax assessments. The information and analysis pull together valuable material which is scattered over a disparate literature, much of it not available in English. Especially considering the dynamic nature of tax law, whose rate of change exceeds that of any other field of law, the authors’ clear identification of the underlying patterns and fundamental structures that all tax systems have in common—as well as where the differences lie—guides the reader and offers resources for further research.

Author : Maria Mousmouti
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788118231

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Designing Effective Legislation by Maria Mousmouti Pdf

What is effective legislation? Is it a matter of intuition, luck or the result of evidence based law making? Can it be consciously ‘engineered’? This book advances the novel idea that legislative effectiveness is the result of complex ‘mechanics’ in the conceptualisation, design and drafting of four elements inherent in every law: purpose, content, context and results. It concludes that effectiveness can be achieved with conceptual and methodological insights that guide the specific choices of lawmakers when designing and drafting legislation.

Author : Robert C. Dick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Law
ISBN : 9996843157

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Legal Drafting by Robert C. Dick Pdf

Author : Corrales Compagnucci, Marcelo,Haapio, Helena,Hagan, Margaret,Doherty, Michael
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839107269

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Legal Design by Corrales Compagnucci, Marcelo,Haapio, Helena,Hagan, Margaret,Doherty, Michael Pdf

This innovative book proposes new theories on how the legal system can be made more comprehensible, usable and empowering for people through the use of design principles. Utilising key case studies and providing real-world examples of legal innovation, the book moves beyond discussion to action. It offers a rich set of examples, demonstrating how various design methods, including information, service, product and policy design, can be leveraged within research and practice.

Author : Robert C. Dick
Publisher : Scarborough, Ont. : Carswell
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060612145

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Legal Drafting in Plain Language by Robert C. Dick Pdf

This is the third edition of Robert Dick's informative guide to drafting. In this edition he emphasises that plain language in the use of legal documents is here to stay.

Author : Clara Ho-yan Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429812156

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Legal Translation and Bilingual Law Drafting in Hong Kong by Clara Ho-yan Chan Pdf

Legal Translation and Bilingual Law Drafting in Hong Kong presents a systematic account from a cross-disciplinary perspective of the activities of legal translation and bilingual law drafting in the bilingual international city of Hong Kong and its interaction with Mainland China and Taiwan in the use of legal terminology. The study mainly examines the challenges posed to English-Chinese translation in the past three decades by elaborate drafting and terminological equivalence, and offers educational and research solutions. Its primary goals are to create legal Chinese that naturally accommodates common law concepts and statutes from the English legal system and to reconcile Chinese legal terms from the different legal systems adopted by Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan. The new directions in legal translation and bilingual law drafting in Hong Kong will have implications for other Chinese regions and for the world. The book is intended for scholars, researchers, teachers and students of legal translation and legal linguistics, legal translators, lawyers and legal practitioners who are engaged in translation, as well as all persons who are interested in legal language and legal translation.

Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226284182

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Legal Writing in Plain English by Bryan A. Garner Pdf

Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful-unfortunately, these adjectives rarely describe legal writing, whether in the form of briefs, opinions, contracts, or statutes. In Legal Writing in Plain English, Bryan A. Garner provides lawyers, judges, paralegals, law students, and legal scholars sound advice and practical tools for improving their written work. The book encourages legal writers to challenge conventions and offers valuable insights into the writing process: how to organize ideas, create and refine prose, and improve editing skills. In essence, it teaches straight thinking—a skill inseparable from good writing. Replete with common sense and wit, the book draws on real-life writing samples that Garner has gathered through more than a decade of teaching in the field. Trenchant advice covers all types of legal materials, from analytical and persuasive writing to legal drafting. Meanwhile, Garner explores important aspects of document design. Basic, intermediate, and advanced exercises in each section reinforce the book's principles. (An answer key to basic exercises is included in the book; answers to intermediate and advanced exercises are provided in a separate Instructor's Manual, free of charge to instructors.) Appendixes include a comprehensive punctuation guide with advice and examples, and four model documents. Today more than ever before, legal professionals cannot afford to ignore the trend toward clear language shorn of jargon. Clients demand it, and courts reward it. Despite the age-old tradition of poor writing in law, Legal Writing in Plain English shows how legal writers can unshackle themselves. Legal Writing in Plain English includes: *Tips on generating thoughts, organizing them, and creating outlines. *Sound advice on expressing your ideas clearly and powerfully. *Dozens of real-life writing examples to illustrate writing problems and solutions. *Exercises to reinforce principles of good writing (also available on the Internet). *Helpful guidance on page layout. *A punctuation guide that shows the correct uses of every punctuation mark. *Model legal documents that demonstrate the power of plain English.

Author : Peter Butt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107607675

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Modern Legal Drafting by Peter Butt Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive guide to drafting legal documents in plain English with a dual practical and academic approach.

Author : Peter Butt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107292680

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Modern Legal Drafting by Peter Butt Pdf

Modern Legal Drafting provides a comprehensive, authoritative guide to drafting legal documents in effective, plain English. Peter Butt, a leading expert in the field, has fully revised and updated the text for this new edition. It combines a practical focus with the legal principles that underpin the use of plain language in law. This dual practical and academic approach distinguishes it from other books in the field. It includes expanded material on the techniques for achieving a style that is both clear and legally sound. It also includes new material on the challenges and merits of drafting in plain language, and provides many before-and-after examples to help both practising lawyers and students develop their skills. It takes an international approach, drawing upon case law and statutes from England, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Ireland, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.