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International Legal
English, written by Amy Krois-Lindner and TransLegal, is a coursebook for Cambridge ESOL’s International Legal English Certificate.
David Crystal's The Stories of English (Penguin Books, 2004), Part 7.4.
Bryan Garner's Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (Oxford University Press) is regarded as an authoritative guide to legal language, and is aimed at the practising lawyer.
Peter Butt and Richard Castle’s
Modern Legal Drafting is a reference book aimed at the practising lawyer.
Mark Adler's Clarity for Lawyers (2nd edn, The Law Society, 2006).
Legal English (2004) by Rupert Haigh and published by Routledge.
Maria Fraddosio, New ELS: English for Law Students (Naples, Edizioni Giuridiche Simone, 2008) is a course book for Italian University Students.
The oxford Oxford Handbook of Legal Correspondence (2006) by Rupert Haigh and published by Oxford University Press.
For a humorous perspective on legalese, see Daniel R. White's
Still The Official Lawyer's Handbook (NY: Plume/Penguin 1991), Chapter 13, pp. 171-176, especially its notorious riff on how a lawyer might edit -- and torture -- the phrase "The sky is blue" (pp. 172-174).
Similarly, see Professor Fred Rodell's "Goodbye to Law Reviews," whose opening lines contain the classic statement of the problem: "There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content." (This and other articles are collected in
Trials and Tribulations -- An Anthology of Appealing Legal
Humor, edited by Daniel R. White (NY: Plume/Penguin 1991), p. 241.
Procter and Gamble Corp. www.pg.com. 2007. <http://www.pg.com/terms.htm#>
vlex co. <http://vlex.com/vid/20028399> 'Hoke v. United States' 2007
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