Pseudo-Clarity of Legal Design
Journal: Legal Linguistics
Year: 2025

The article discusses the problem of simplifying the legal text for the purpose of making its content understandable to a wide range of subjects. Representatives of legal design increasingly write about the need to develop the clarity of the legal language. At the same time, some of them understand the accessibility of such a language to an ordinary reader. The paper consistently argues for the negative effects of such simplification, the main of which is the inevitable primitivization of the la