Legal Drafting and Editing in Academic Studies

The article looks at legal drafting and editing as the focus of academic studies. The interest to this topic is determined by practical needs in a globalizing world where English is the language of business communication. Other reasons stem from the public demand for more understandable and clear le...

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Published in:Procedia, social and behavioral sciences social and behavioral sciences, 2015-12, Vol.214, p.1116-1124
Main Author: Stepanova, Valentina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
corporate/company documents
correcting logical errors
drafting and editing of legal documents
editing facts
incorrect terminology
lengthy sentences
negation
passive structures
requirements to legal drafting
revising legal documents
stylistic errors
syntectic errors
types and techniques of editing/revising
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Summary:The article looks at legal drafting and editing as the focus of academic studies. The interest to this topic is determined by practical needs in a globalizing world where English is the language of business communication. Other reasons stem from the public demand for more understandable and clear legal instruments, legislative and policy initiatives and innovations in software and printing technologies. The article outlines the key aspects of legal drafting and editing/revising based on the works of Russian and Western scholars. It examines linguistic and non-linguistic properties of the legal instruments (on the material of corporate documents) contributing to their clarity and readability and, as a practical part of the research, analyses the most common errors in translating the articles of association from Russian into English.
ISSN:1877-0428
1877-0428
DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.11.715