Slightly off topic, but this reminds me of a great talk on simplifying legislation so that law people can actually read and understand it: http://www.ted.com/t

Slightly off topic, but this reminds me of a great talk on simplifying legislation so that law people can actually read and understand it: http://www.ted.com/talks/alan_siegel_let_s_simplify_legal_jargon.html http://www.ted.com/talks/alan_siegel_let_s_simplify_legal_ja... In the talk, Alan discusses how they simplified a non-trivial set of legislation to something more like an advertising brochure. They then confirmed with appropriate lawyers that it was equivalent to the original legislation. I would love to see a NPO or volunteer group spring up, comprised of marketers and lawyers, who retroactively applied this technique to existing laws, then published them freely.