For a lawyer, the word is the scalpel with which he or she operates. A scalpel of a surgeon which is blunt, imprecise or too large can hurt. Likewise, the word of the legal practitioner must be an instrument of precision, which goes straight to the target, without useless deviations.

You should devote daily four hours to writing. Keywords: legal writing, oral culture, written culture, epistemic community.

The honesty of an author consists in acknowledging and exploring the scientific precedents on which his or her research is based. Keywords: bibliography, honesty, legal practice, legal literature. ...

I believe in clarity, simplicity and consistency, accurate and complete documentary research, and in the interdisciplinary analysis, as well as comparative law perspective, of legal concepts, doctrines and institutions. Keywords:

I belong to those who believe that all words, said or written, trigger the moral responsibility of the author. The words come from our inner writing and are meant to be printed in the mind of the reader. (…) The conclusion belongs to the reader, but exposing the reasoning is in the hands of the author.

Writing is easy. What’s actually difficult is to prepare for it. This preliminary stage consists, in fact, in reading. If you don’t have the time to read, you will not have the time – and more importantly, the tools – to write. One’s writing style is the reflection of one’s readings. The power of literature (legal, but especially non-legal) is slowly leaving its mark on us and, over time, stimulates us to write better.

Writing is as important for the discipline of an academic profession as is reading.But they are stages radically different, if not even opposed within the rhythm of academic life. A day that starts with going through bibliography, with checking sources or looking for the texts referred to by sources, or with reading texts which inevitably catch your attention, is a day which is lost for writing. Receptivity towards something new and cur...

Regardless whether you write for practitioners or for the academic environment, it is an exercise of great responsibility to review the text before publishing it. This is writing hygiene. It gives one the chance to detect not only spelling errors, but also judgment errors. (…) I am not always successful with this, precisely because writing rather gets me tired than attracts me. However, happily the safety net works because there was always so...

By its very function and training, the notary is a man of legal „express”, of explicit formulations. (…) A seeker of the causal relation, who will never be able to detach from it. Although abstraction could help him, he ignores it, and prefers to look, confused, for the validity of the causal relation underlying the document he is drafting. He is easily afraid and take exaggerate precautions. His anatomy impedes creativity, so he prefers well...

The texts I write (and, in general, the texts that are written in law) are of two kinds: “negotiable” texts and texts “of adhesion”. (…) The texts written for “negotiation” have a different content from that which would have resulted if those texts had been written “for adhesion”. (…) Whoever the reader is, I examine the result of the agreement I propose to reach in terms of “degree of consensus”, not in terms of “assenting to an op...