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Is legal jargon actually a ‘magic spell’? Science says maybe

  • Written by Francis Mollica, Lecturer in Computational Cognitive Science, The University of Melbourne
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Legal language, or “legalese”, is notoriously hard to understand. Legalese contains more difficult linguistic structures and unusual word choices than most other styles of writing, including non-fiction, news media and even complex academic texts.

The convoluted structure of many legal sentences can...

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