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...

The addressees of what I write, the information about them, about their expectations are decisive. The language, the tone, the modality of expressing the information depend all upon the addressees, more precisely upon what I know or I think I know about them. Keywords:...

The contract becomes a group work, reflecting the agreement reached by theparties. Sometimes this compromise, as well as the hurry in the negotiation of some provision before signing, result in imperfect formulations, whose future interpretation might trigger potential disputes. But these situations are specific to the dynamics of the transactions, in which, many times, the pressure to reach an agreement, after many tens of hours of neg...

Every law professor writing about law is a Mr. Teo. Keywords: selection, interpretation, canon, fracture.

There are many writing techniques but none is magical. I think the writing style is personal in the first place, and only thereafter it does become technical. There is, however, a common denominator in everything: enthusiasm, whether you are a writer every day or not.