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The Two Moats Against AI-Only Contract Drafting
By Ken Adams
The concept of a moat has long been used as a business metaphor for whatever protects you from competitors. It’s now turning up in AI discussions. Specifically, I’ve seen the…
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The Decline of Social Trust and the Rise of the Contracts Industry
By Ken Adams
I’ve been reading Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000, rev. ed. 2020). It’s about how Americans have become increasingly disconnected from one another…
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Linguistics, Claude, and Me: A Short Adventure in AI-Assisted Scholarship
By Ken Adams
I’ve just complete a project using AI, namely Claude. It involved linguistics. I’m new to using AI seriously; I first used Claude only a month ago. AI has been mostly…
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The Sprawl: Complexifying Contracts Through Negotiation
By Ken Adams
This image is from a public-company merger agreement. I highlighted those components that complexify contracts. Different levels of enumerated clauses. Cross-references. Parentheticals. Exceptions. Conditions. I think “the sprawl” is a…
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Becoming Better Acquainted with Antecedent Ambiguity
By Ken Adams
Antecedent ambiguity is a distinct kind of ambiguity. As MSCD says, “Confusion can arise if it’s not clear what the antecedent is of a given element.” MSCD offers as an…
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Revisiting Offsetting Commas in Right Node Raising
By Ken Adams
In this recent blog post, I emphasize the importance of offsetting commas in right node raising. (“Right node raising” is a linguistics term used to describe a sentence in which…
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Syntactic Ambiguity in Integrated Definitions
By Ken Adams
I expect that regular readers of this blog are familiar with syntactic ambiguity. An example: cats and dogs with brown fur. Does that refer to all cats, or just those…
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Claude Invokes the Fallacy of “Tested” Contract Language!
By Ken Adams
I sent a contact my first draft of an article about—what else!—dysfunctional mainstream contract language. In the modern way, my contact fed my draft to Claude, to see what Claude…
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Building a Center for Textual Interpretation
By Ken Adams
This week, The Volokh Conspiracy blog published my latest article, Comma Mischief from the Florida District Court of Appeal. The closing section explains that many judges are bad at textual…
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Feedback from a User of an Adams Contract Highly Customizable Template: Katie Butler of Torch Law
By Ken Adams
In this blog post, I describe how Adams Contracts is in limbo. But some people are using Adams Contracts’ highly customizable templates! One of them is Katie Butler, managing attorney…