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 ...

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 ...

June 17 (Reuters) - In the law, language matters. The outcome of a case can hinge on the definition of a word in a contract or statute – but who’s responsible for crafting the definitions? Sign up ...

David Wright receives funding from The British Academy. Language is pervasive throughout the criminal justice system. A textual chain follows a person from the moment they are arrested until their day ...