Current Frontiers in Legal Drafting Systems
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Most legal tasks involve document preparation. Drafting effective texts is central to lawyering, judging, legislating, and regulating. How best to support that work with intelligent tools is an ancient topic in AI-and-Law circles. This article surveys the history and current state of document drafting software and associated theory. Present frontiers in both of those fields are identified, and a preliminary sketch is made of a ‘grand unified theory’ of legal drafting systems.
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