Legal Writing

English as the Lingua Franca of Contracts
I’m working on the introduction to MSCD2, and five minutes ago I wrote this: English is used in contracts around the world, and not only in contracts between companies from English-speaking countries...

Corporate Finance Roundtable: The Lingua Franca of Business
I see the concept of valuation as built around the core concept of present value. Why is a 10-year bond...

The Story Behind the Ammonious Foundation
This article appeared in Lingua Franca more than a decade ago, and was recently republished by Slate. It's a curioius saga, though, of course, the Foundation is now well-known for its support for work in metaphysics and cognate fields.

Review: Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise 7
Coming today to TechnoFeature: The PDF format has become the lingua franca for documents in the legal profession ? and many PDF programs exist from which law firms can choose. Competition is good since it generally results in lower prices...

Browsing On A Sunday: Letters of the Notable, Library Funding Trouble, and the Piracy Wars
I was browsing through the Lingua Franca blog on the Chronicle of Higher Education when I came across a reference to the site Letters of Note, subtitled ?Correspondence deserving of a wider audience...

The Passive Voice
(Eugene Volokh) Some people categorically criticize the passive voice, a criticism that Prof. Geoffrey Pullum (of Language Log) has long and colorfully condemned; his latest salvo is an excellent post in the Chronicle of Legal Education?s Lingua Franca blog on the subject...