NEW LEGAL PROFESSION: PROFESSIONAL LEGAL ACTS’ WRITER

Abstract

There is a true need for establishing a new legal profession: professional legal acts writer. Writing laws and other legal documents isn’t that easy to do, especially when it comes to writing general rules of behavior. Those general norms must be so general, to be applicable in any similar future situations, and yet, although very abstract in their content, must be comprehensible to any ordinary man, without any legal knowledge. Law is directed towards ordinary people, and they must understand fully what they are required to do. In this paper we will explain why the professional legal acts’ writer must be recognized as the new legal profession and why those people must have some special knowledge and skills, such as:
– general and specific legal knowledge in area in which they are working,
– good knowledge of the mother tongue, grammar rules and stylistic expression, as well
as the same level of knowledge of at least one other world language (a lot of laws are
dealing with legal transplants from other legal systems, it’s good to know stylistic
differences between those two languages),
– cultural and historical background of the state in which the law is written ,
– have certain level of understanding political circumstances, etc.
The author is pleading for this new legal profession, as the result of her 15 years long experience in this area of writing legal acts. The paper presents her personal recommendations and the improvement of this legal work.