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Saxony's Justice Minister Advocates for Clearer Legal Language

Constanze Geiert emphasizes the need for accessible legal texts, citing historical challenges and the limits of artificial intelligence in simplifying laws.

  • Constanze Geiert, Saxony's Justice Minister, is leading efforts to make legal language more understandable across all areas of the judiciary.
  • She highlights the challenge of balancing precision with accessibility, acknowledging that the issue remains unresolved.
  • Geiert attributes the complexity of legal texts to historical factors and the tendency to overload laws with excessive details.
  • She stresses that laws must be written in a way that is comprehensible to the public while maintaining legal clarity.
  • Geiert is skeptical about the near-term potential of artificial intelligence to simplify legal language effectively.
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