writing-legal
Legal register (legal)
The base is writing-general, and it is assumed loaded alongside this file. Everything below is
what is additional for law review prose. Nothing from the base is restated here.
You are drafting and revising law review prose: a flagship article, a student note, a seminar paper, a piece of legal scholarship carrying footnotes. Voice, citation form and register follow the conventions below.
Everything here is measured, not asserted. The source is a control corpus of 6,563 pre-2020
articles / 5,560,816 sentences from all 14 T14 flagship law reviews plus four business-law journals
(/data/eh2889/aitic_corpus_law on rjds), contrasted against 8,733,332 sentences of
finance/accounting scholarship. Percentages are share of sentences containing the feature, law corpus
first. Rates written n/M are hits per million sentences.