Law smells: Defining and detecting problematic patterns in legal drafting
Building on the computer science concept of code smells, we initiate the study of law smells, i.e., patterns in legal texts that pose threats to the comprehensibility and maintainability of the law. With five intuitive law smells as running examples—namely, duplicated phrase, long element, large ref...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2023
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