Add to ORKGThis Article will show how analytical methods of legal and linguistic scholarship can interact to examine a legal text, in particular a provision of the federal criminal code, the interpretation of which has been hotly contested within the legal system
The Supreme Court teaches that federal courts, unlike their counterparts in the states, are not gene...
This Article explores the role of the common law in Supreme Court interpretation and application of ...
There is something about the criminal law that invites comparative analysis. The interests it protec...
This article offers a new technique for analyzing and evaluating competing interpretations of a lega...
Professor Cunningham was the winner of the 1988 Scholarly Paper Competition sponsored by the Associa...
What can lawyers learn from linguistics? Here are some thoughts, focused on statutory interpretation
My response to these hypotheticals is going to be useless, although, I hope, in a useful way. It’s ...
In one of the few existing recordings of American juries deliberating in an actual criminal case, Wi...
I would like to take a closer look here at how linguists and lawyers look at language (sentences) an...
There is a familiar saying, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” The so-call...
This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the potential application of literary theory and cogni...
Without fanfare, Plain Meaning and Hard Cases relegated its discussion of phonetics, phonology, and ...
This Article discusses how corpus analysis, and similar empirically based methods of language study,...
The defining feature of a “common law statute” is that it resists standard methods of statutory inte...
This brief response to Ordinary Meaning and Corpus Linguistics, an article by Stefan Gries and Brian...
The Supreme Court teaches that federal courts, unlike their counterparts in the states, are not gene...
This Article explores the role of the common law in Supreme Court interpretation and application of ...
There is something about the criminal law that invites comparative analysis. The interests it protec...
This article offers a new technique for analyzing and evaluating competing interpretations of a lega...
Professor Cunningham was the winner of the 1988 Scholarly Paper Competition sponsored by the Associa...
What can lawyers learn from linguistics? Here are some thoughts, focused on statutory interpretation
My response to these hypotheticals is going to be useless, although, I hope, in a useful way. It’s ...
In one of the few existing recordings of American juries deliberating in an actual criminal case, Wi...
I would like to take a closer look here at how linguists and lawyers look at language (sentences) an...
There is a familiar saying, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” The so-call...
This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the potential application of literary theory and cogni...
Without fanfare, Plain Meaning and Hard Cases relegated its discussion of phonetics, phonology, and ...
This Article discusses how corpus analysis, and similar empirically based methods of language study,...
The defining feature of a “common law statute” is that it resists standard methods of statutory inte...
This brief response to Ordinary Meaning and Corpus Linguistics, an article by Stefan Gries and Brian...
The Supreme Court teaches that federal courts, unlike their counterparts in the states, are not gene...
This Article explores the role of the common law in Supreme Court interpretation and application of ...
There is something about the criminal law that invites comparative analysis. The interests it protec...