Simplification and Easification of Legislative Provisions.

Abstract

This analysis takes into consideration the challenge of writing legislative provisions. Legislative expressions must be clear, precise, and unambiguous, on the one hand, and all-inclusive, on the other. A clever balance between the two is the essence of the craftsmanship of normative texts. The nature and extent of specification of legal scope, moreover, represents one of the most difficult tasks in legislative drafting. Based on the hypothesis that linguistics can provide drafters with a method for assessing the effectiveness of the legislator’s provisions, this study demonstrates that drafters often miss the focus of the policy concepts that they aim to communicate, and discusses the latest techniques to successfully achieve the desired conceptual focus.