Ignacio Adrian Lerer has published Dead Language, Living Law: Latin Legal Maxims as Perfect Memes. Here is the abstract. Latin legal maxims represent evolution’s solution to a fundamental problem: how to transmit complex legal...
Helen L. Norton, University of Colorado Law School, has published Contesting ‘Address’: Conflicts Over the Words We Use to Address and Refer to Each Other at 62 Houston Law Review 799 (2025). Here is...
CFP: Judicial Rhetoric: A Symposium April 5, 2024 University of Virginia School of Law In collaboration with Case Western Reserve University Judicial writing is a genre in flux. While court opinions remain both potent...
Wolfgang Alschner, University of Ottawa, Common Law Section, and Isabelle St-Hilaire, University of Oxford, on Using Network Citation Analysis to Reveal Precedential Archetypes at the Supreme Court of Canada. Here is the abstract. The...
Jeffrey Miller has published French Fries Are Meat: The Legal Poetics of Getting from Law to Justice. Here is the abstract. A summary way of describing the present essay is an analysis of linguistic...
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, INSEAD, has published In Praise of Dictators: A Swiftian Perspective as INSEAD Working Paper No. 2022/22/EFE, 2022. Here is the abstract. This article takes a ‘Swiftian perspective’ to...
Hanjo Hamann, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, has published K is for Contract―Why is it, Though? at 106 Minnesota Law Review Online Companion Headnotes (2022). Here is the abstract. Just like...
Julien Etxabe, Allard School of Law, UBC, is publishing The Dialogical Language of Law in volume 59 of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. Here is the abstract. We live in a dialogical world. The...
John Witte, Emory University School of Law, is publishing The Metaphorical Bridge between Law and Religion in volume 47 of the Pepperdine Law Review (2020). Here is the abstract. This Article explores the role...
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