Veda Charrow.  "Some Guidelines for Clear, Legal Writing."  8 U. Bridgeport Law Review 405 (1987) (practitioners' guide to drafting plain English jury instructions).

Amiram Elwork, Bruce D. Sales and James J. Alfini.  Making Jury Instructions Understandable (1982) (comprehensive practitioners' guide for evaluating jury instructions for comprehensibility and for redrafting instructions).

Edward J. Imwinkelried and Lloyd R. Schwed.  "Guidelines for Drafting Understandable Jury Instructions: An Introduction to the Use of Psycholinguistics."  23 Criminal Law Bulletin 135 (1987) (providing a review of the literature and a practitioners' guide to problem terminology in jury instructions in criminal cases).

Harvey S. Perlman.  "Pattern Jury Instructions: The Application of Social Science Research."  65 Nebraska Law Review 520 (1986) (reviewing empirical studies related to jury decision making and their applicability in the redrafting of judicial pattern jury instructions).

Michael J. Saks.  "Judicial Nullification."  68 Indiana Law Journal 1281 (1993) (arguing that by failing to provide people comprehensible jury instructions, judges effectively nullify the law).

William W Schwarzer.  "Communicating with Juries: Problems and Remedies."  69 California Law Review 731, 743-755 (1981) (critiquing the language and construction of jury instructions).

Walter W. Steele, Jr. and Elizabeth G. Thornburg.  "Jury Instructions: A Persistent Failure to Communicate."  67 North Carolina Law Review 77 (1988) (concluding that improvements in the comprehensibility of jury instructions are unlikely without institutional changes in the incentives for judges and lawyers to draft plain English instructions).

J. Alexander Tanford.  "The Law and Psychology of Jury Instructions."  69 Nebraska Law Review 71 (1990) (challenging the assumptions that juries would follow jury instructions even if they understood them).

Robert P. Charrow and Ved R. Charrow.  "Making Legal Language Understandable: A Psycholinguistic Study of Jury Instructions."  79 Columbia Law Review 1306 (1979) (identifying, and testing for reliability and validity, those linguistic features that interfere with jury comprehension).

Shari S. Diamond and Judith N. Levi.  "Improving Decisions on Death by Revising and Testing Jury Instructions."  79 Judicature 224 (1996) (reporting increases in juror comprehension of jury instructions on the death penalty after redrafting in accordance with established linguistic principles).

Amiram Elwork, Bruce D. Sales and James J. Alfini.  "Jurdic Decisions: In Ignorance of the Law or In Light of It?"  1 Law & Human Behavior 163 (1977) (study finding significant improvements in juror comprehension of pattern instructions after rewriting them to define or eliminate unfamiliar terminology, correct grammar, and improve organization).

Robin Reed.  "Jury Simulation: The Impact of Judge's Instructions and Attorney Tactics on Decisionmaking."  71 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 68 (1980) (study examining the effects of providing or withholding jury instructions on jury decision making).

Laurence J. Severance, Edith Greene and Elizabeth F. Loftus.  "Toward Criminal Jury Instructions that Jurors Can Understand."  75 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 198 (1984) (study evaluating improvements in the comprehensibility of jury instructions defining "reasonable doubt," "criminal intent," and "limited use of prior convictions").

Laurence J. Severance and Elizabeth F. Loftus.  "Improving the Ability of Jurors to Comprehend and Apply Criminal Jury Instructions."  17 Law and Soc. Review 153 (1982) (three studies demonstrating methods for improving the comprehensibility of jury instructions).