• Normalized legal drafting and the Query method (Allen, 1978)
      • Visualization
        • Automatic contract-processing
          • Create formal models of legal text
            • Rules as code
          • Contracts as code
            • Legal contract
              • Classification and summarization
      • Teach humans to draft better
      • Generality
      • Scope ambiguity
    • Overview

Advantages of imprecision

Some semantic vagueness is intended.

Too rigid law/contract is not applicable for novel situations. This is one of the Fundamental Limits on Automation of Legal Reasoning#.

See also: “I know it when I see it”

2020-06-16

Uplinks

  • Normalized legal drafting and the Query method (Allen, 1978)#
    • Aims to fix unintended syntactic ambiguity, imprecision, confusing turn of phrase or just plain incorrect meaning. (There are also Advantages of imprecision#, which this method would keep.)

  • Overview#
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