D.D. Oaks

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  1. What Can Humor And Advertising Teach Us About Legal Drafting?
    Abstract

    In his book Legal Drafting in a Nutshell, Haggard includes a useful chapter of nearly 50 pages in which he lists various lexical and structural elements and explains how these can lead to ambiguous writing. The kind of inventory approach that he presents is helpful and reveals that ambiguity doesn't just happen but often results from the careless use of identifiable structures or particular words.

    doi:10.1109/tpc.1998.735371