Tagged: Edward Gibson

A Word, Please: Legalese is a thing, even when it doesn’t come from lawyers

Read it at the Los Angeles Times

September 17, 2024
Hate reading contracts? MIT study explains the real reason legal documents are so hard to understand

Read it at Fast Company

May 23, 2025
Do We Need Language to Think?

Read it at the New York Times

June 19, 2024
Lawyers Hate Legal Jargon, Too

Read it at Gizmodo

May 30, 2023
Cognitive scientists develop new model explaining difficulty in language comprehension

Read it at MIT News

December 22, 2022
MIT cognitive scientists win Ig Nobel for shedding light on legalese

Read it at MIT News

September 16, 2022
Objection: No one can understand what you’re saying

Read it at MIT News

March 07, 2022