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Contract Definition Visualization Tools

Contracts (and other legal documents) often make extensive use of definitions. These definitions may be linked together in chains and can considerably complicate the interpretation and drafting of contracts. The Contracts Tools Page provides a demonstration tool for visualization of definitions The Contract Tools Site. Please reference Enhancing the Visualization of Law October 2012 20th Anniversary Conference of Law via the Internet - Cornell University

Research Readability Tools

The readability of legislation and other legal rules (as in contracts) has been the subject of extensive consideration and work. The plain language movement has brought about considerable improvements in the way that legal rules are written. Yet the law remains inaccessible to many citizens whose lives are affected by it. The Research Readability Tools Site provides a series of tools and metrics for researching the readability of text in general, and legislation in particular, with a view to making such tools available for researchers. The tools have demonstration web pages and can be called through submitting http requests.

College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University

Research Papers and Associated Materials

Michael Curtotti and Eric McCreath, Enhancing the Visualization of Law presented at the 2012 Twentieth Anniversary Law via the Internet Conference (LVI2012). See LVI 2012.

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Last modified: 24 March 2013