出版时间:2004-1 出版社:法律出版社 作者:托马斯·R·哈格德 页数:487
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本书可能帮助你解决或避免诸如此类的问题。它提出好的法律写作的特点是精确、明晰、简短、简洁和语气职业化。它详述了写作的过程特别是其中涉及的诸多具体问题,包括如何开头、如何确定写作的内容、如何选择正确的概念、怎样组织结构、怎样避免模糊、写作的风格和惯用语、如何定义、产生法律后果的用语以及当法律写作造成模棱两可时所适用的法律解释规则等。同时单独讨论了合同和立法文件的写作以及用计算机写作和写作的道德等问题。本书大量使用了包括以上所引范例在内的生动例子,同时语言刻意浅显易懂,因而非常适合具有一定英语基础的法学院学生和包括律师面人的法律从业人员阅读。 本书为如何进行法律写作提供了大纲,并告诉律师们如何能满足客户的要求,解决现存的问题,避免将来可能会产生的问题等。本书内容权威,详细介绍了一般的写作过程,并告诉你如何开始的诀窍。而且还介绍了法律写作的概要,如何选择正确的概念,如何避免含糊其词以及起草的原则等。本书并不是像一般的写作书那样,只是向你提供一些写作的标准格式,而是告诉你写作中的要素,让你在写作中表现出自己的特色。本书不仅是一本写作书,从这本书里你还可以学到最新的写作指南,让你的写作更切实际、更准确。
作者简介
托马斯·R·哈格德:得克萨斯大学法学院教授,主要研究和教学方向是雇佣和劳工法、雇佣歧视、法律写作、法律起草等。
书籍目录
PREFACE PARTI .INTRODUCTIONChapter 1: A Philosophy of Drafting A .The Characteristics of Good LegalWriting 1.Accuracy 2.Clarity 3.Concision 4.Simplicity 5.Tone B. Three Types of Legal Writing 1.Discoursive Writing 2.Litigation-Related Writing 3.Normative Writing C. The Ultimate Consequence of DraftedDocuments D .Drafting as a Facilitator of Self-Govern-ment and Economic Enterprise E. Drafting as a Form of PreventiveLawyering F. Drafting as an Intellectual Exercise 1.Knowledge of the Law 2.Investigation 3.Conceptualization 4.Prescience 5.Organization G. Drafting as a Literary Exercise 1.Words 2.Sentences 3.Other Word ConstructionTechniques 4.Headings H. Drafting as an Ethical Exercise I. The Costs of Bad Drafting 1.Social Costs 2.Client Costs 3.Drafter Costs J. Drafting From Scratch Chapter 2: Contract Drafting A .The Role of the Contract Drafter B. Recurring Problems in ContractDrafting 1.Unintended Contracts 2.Documents Intended to be Contractshat Fail 3.Contracts Containing Gaps 4.Ambiguous and UnnecessarilyVague Terms 5.Unanticipated Events C. Types of Contracts
章节摘录
7. Signature Blocks This provides a place for the parties and witnesses, if any, to sign. Type the name and title below the signature line. Signatures should not be on a separate page; include some of the text of the contract on the page on which the signatures appear. In addition, on extremely important documents, the parties should initial each page at the bottom. 8. Date If the date was not included in the lead paragraph, include it here. 9. Notarization If the contract is to be notarized, the notarys statement, signature, and seal come last. 10. An Appendix Many complex commercial, financial, and corporate contracts include an appendix containing exhibits and schedules. An exhibit usually consists of a document that is relevant to, but not a part of, the agreement itself. In a multi-party transaction, the contract between Acme Corporation and Beta Corporation may build on or interface with the contract between Beta Corporation and Charlie Corporation, which would thus be attached as an exhibit to the Acme/Beta contract. A schedule, on the other hand, is properly a part of the agreement. It may consist of a list of persons to whom certain notices must be sent, important but incredibly tedious technical data, computation formula, and even standard boilerplate provisions promulgated by government regulation or industry trade groups. The appendix should have its own table of contents and be consecutively paginated, even if some of the inclosed documents have their own original pagination.
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