Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Abstract
Language, like law, is a living thing. It grows and changes. It both reflects and shapes the communities that use it. The language of the community of legal writing professors demonstrates this process. Legal writing professors, who stand at the heart of an emerging discipline in the legal academy, are creating new terms, or neologisms, as they struggle to articulate principles of legal analysis, organizational paradigms conventional to legal writing, and other legal writing concepts. This new vocabulary can be both beneficial and detrimental. It can be beneficial because it expands the substance of an emerging discipline. It also can be harmful, however, because not everyone understands the new terms, and that lack of understanding can hinder communication about legal writing.
Publication Citation
56 Me. L. Rev. 239 (2004).
Recommended Citation
Pollman, Terrill, "IRLAFARC! A Survey on the Language of Legal Writing" (2004). Scholarly Works. 506.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/506