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Readability Of Laws

Readability of Laws is a linguistic metric that assesses the ease with which legal texts can be understood by their intended audience, distinguishing itself from related metrics by focusing specifically on syntactic simplicity, lexical accessibility, and structural clarity within statutory and regulatory language.

15

Publications

655

Citations

24

Authors

19

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

2

Variants

Legislative Readability

Parents

Publications

15

Agreeing to Disagree: Can We Just Have Words?, CISG Article 11 and the Model Law Writing Requirement

Janet Walker · eYLS (Yale Law School) · 2005 · 350 citations · Full text

, , +8

CLARITY AND WORD ORDER IN LEGISLATION

Dennis Kurzon · Oxford Journal of Legal Studies · 1985 · 47 citations

, , +17

Osborn's Concise law dictionary.

Hidemi Ren · Books | UK Encyclopedia of Law · 2016 · 35 citations

, , +4

The limits of plain legal language: understanding the comprehensible style in law

Zsolt Ződi · International Journal of Law in Context · 2019 · 34 citations

, , +13

Goodbye to Law Reviews

Fred Rodell · Virginia Law Review · 1936 · 32 citations · Full text

, , +9

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Authors

24

  1. HR
    Hidemi Ren

    1 publications · 35 citations

    1

    h-index

  2. MK
    Michael K. Paasche‐Orlow

    Boston University, United States

    1 publications · 12 citations

    1

    h-index

  3. HB
    Hugo Bowles

    University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

    1 publications · 23 citations

    1

    h-index

  4. FR
    Fred Rodell

    Yale University, United States

    1 publications · 32 citations

    1

    h-index

  5. DD
    Dana D. Dyson

    University of Michigan–Flint, United States

    1 publications · 10 citations

    1

    h-index

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Institutions

19

  1. San Jose State University

    San Jose, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    36 citations

  2. Corvinus University of Budapest

    Budapest, Hungary

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    34 citations

  3. University of North Texas

    Denton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  4. Marquette University

    Milwaukee, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  5. Centre for Social Sciences

    Budapest, Hungary

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    34 citations

  6. Leiden University

    Leiden, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  7. University of Abou Bekr Belkaïd

    Tlemcen, Algeria

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    28 citations

  8. Boston University

    Boston, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

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Venues

  1. Books | UK Encyclopedia of Law

    1 publications · 35 citations

    1

    h-index

  2. Statute Law Review

    1 publications · 17 citations

    1

    h-index

  3. English for Specific Purposes

    1 publications · 23 citations

    1

    h-index

  4. eYLS (Yale Law School)

    Repository · 1 publications · 350 citations

    1

    h-index

  5. Journal of Poverty

    1 publications · 10 citations

    1

    h-index

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