Bill Watson, Harvard Law School, is publishing Metalinguistic Negotiation in Legal Speech in Law & Philosophy. Here is the abstract. This paper examines the role of metalinguistic negotiation in lawyers’ and judges’ speech about...
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...
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...
Matthew Jennejohn, Samuel Nelson, and D. Carolina Núñez, all of Brigham Young University Law School, have published Hidden Bias in Empirical Textualism at 109 Georgetown Law Journal 767 (2021). Here is the abstract. A...
Brian G. Slocum, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, and Stefan Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Linguistics, are publishing Judging Corpus Linguistics, in the Southern California Law Review (2020)....
Law and Linguistics / Legal Interpretation
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Neal Goldfarb is publishing The Use of Corpus Linguistics in Legal Interpretation in volume 7 of the Annual Review of Linguistics. Here is the abstract. Over the past decade, the idea of using corpus...
Now available! A special issue of the Georgia State University Law Review, devoted to law and linguistics! See the table of contents here. All articles are available in PDF format. Wonderful to see a...
Anya Bernstein, SUNY Buffalo Law School, has published Legal Interpretation and the Half-Empirical Attitude. Here is the abstract. Legal writers have recently turned to corpus linguistics for help interpreting legal texts. Corpus linguistics —...
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