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Clear Legal Drafting: What's Holding Us Back?, F. Reed Dickerson
Clear Legal Drafting: What's Holding Us Back?, F. Reed Dickerson
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Legal Drafting: Writing As Thinking, Or, Talk-Back From Your Draft And How To Exploit It, Reed Dickerson
Legal Drafting: Writing As Thinking, Or, Talk-Back From Your Draft And How To Exploit It, Reed Dickerson
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Seminar On Legal Drafting Raises Questions On Teaching, Reed Dickerson
Seminar On Legal Drafting Raises Questions On Teaching, Reed Dickerson
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Professionalizing Legislative Drafting: A Realistic Goal?, Reed Dickerson
Professionalizing Legislative Drafting: A Realistic Goal?, Reed Dickerson
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The teaching of skills that result in sound legislative drafting is neglected in law schools, and professionalism in legislative drafting is lacking on both the federal and state fronts. With the adoption by the American Bar Association of seven major principles relating to the drafting of federal legislation, perhaps there is more hope now that there will be a move toward professionalism.
Report To Economics Committee: First National Conference On Automated Law Research, Reed Dickerson
Report To Economics Committee: First National Conference On Automated Law Research, Reed Dickerson
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Debunking The Computer Mystique, Reed Dickerson
Debunking The Computer Mystique, Reed Dickerson
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Annual Survey: 1966, F. Reed Dickerson, Paul R. Beath, Louis F. Del Duca
Annual Survey: 1966, F. Reed Dickerson, Paul R. Beath, Louis F. Del Duca
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Automation And The Lawyer, F. Reed Dickerson
Automation And The Lawyer, F. Reed Dickerson
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Computers and automation have brought about what some have called the "Second Industrial Revolution." But automation is most frequently considered and discussed as it applies to industry or to scientific research. In this article, Professor Dickerson points out that lawyers, too, are already greatly affected by the age of automation. Computers can probably be most useful to lawyers in the area of research, but as the writer indicates, they can and are being used for such diverse things as estate planning, legislative redistricting and predicting in advance the outcome of judicial decisions.
The Diseases Of Legislative Language, Reed Dickerson
The Diseases Of Legislative Language, Reed Dickerson
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In this article Professor Dickerson examines some of the most basic problems facing the legislative draftsman in his attempt to obtain clarity in statutes. He discusses the "diseases" of ambiguity, over-vagueness, over-precision, over- and under-generality and obesity, and distinguishes them from useful devices with which they are often confused.
Some Jurisprudential Implications Of Electronic Data Processing, Reed Dickerson
Some Jurisprudential Implications Of Electronic Data Processing, Reed Dickerson
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Legislative Drafting And The Law Schools, Reed Dickerson
Legislative Drafting And The Law Schools, Reed Dickerson
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How To Write A Law, Reed Dickerson
Legislative Drafting: A Challenge To The Legal Profession, Reed Dickerson
Legislative Drafting: A Challenge To The Legal Profession, Reed Dickerson
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