Toward a new language of legal drafting
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Lawyers should write in document markup language just like web developers, digital publishers, scientists, and almost everyone else.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1507.05081 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015