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Law and Language

Law and Language Current Legal Issues Volume 15

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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780199673667
  • Published In: February 2013
  • Format: Hardback , 640 pages
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  • Offers a broad overview of the interaction between law and language and the way they infuence each other
  • The latest volume in the established Current Legal Issues series, which brings together scholars from around the world to explore the interactions between legal thought and other disciplines
  • Topics include libel, linguistic meaning and truth in language and law, semantics, the power of naming, and role of language in constructing commercial contracts

Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyses points of controversy in the use, and abuse, of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice.

Law and Language, the fifteenth volume in the Current Legal Issues series, offers an insight into the scholarship examining the relationship between language and the law. The issues examined in this book range from problems of interpretation and beyond this to the difficulties of legal translation, and further to non-verbal expression in a chapter tracing the use of sign language at the Old Bailey; it examines the role of language and the law in a variety of literary works, including Hamlet; and considers the interrelation between language and the law in a variety of contexts, including criminal law, contract law, family law, human rights law, and EU law.

Readership: Academics and researchers interested in the interaction between law and language

1: Michael Freeman and Fiona Smith: Introduction: Law and Language
2: Robyn Carston: Legal Texts and Canons of Construction: A View from Current Pragmatic Theory
3: Brian H. Bix: Linguistic Meaning and Legal Truth
4: Andrei Marmor: Truth in Law
5: Andrew Halpin: Language, Truth, and Law
6: Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco: Claims of Legal Authorities and 'Expressions of Intention': The Limits of Philosophy of Language
7: Richard Nobles and David Schiff: Legal Pluralism: A Systems Theory Approach to Language, Translation, and Communication
8: Steven L. Winter: Frame Semantics and the 'Internal Point of View'
9: Ross Charnock: Hart as Contextualist? Theories of Interpretation in Language and the Law
10: Jan-Melissa Schramm: On Goodness and Genre: Talking about Virtue in Law and Literature
11: Sebastian McEvoy: The Grin's Cat: Language, Law, and Literature
12: Michael Hancher: Reading and Writing the Law: Macaulay in India
13: Eric Heinze: 'Where be his quiddities now?' Law and Language in Hamlet
14: Steven Cammiss: Stories in Law: Providing Space for 'Oppositionists'?
15: Marco Wan: Literal Interpretation and English Precedent in Joe Ma's Lawyer, Lawyer
16: Benjamin Shaer: Toward a Cognitive Science of Legal Interpretation
17: June Luchjenbroers & Michelle Aldridge-Waddon: Do You Kick a Dog When It's Down? Considering the Use of Children's Video-taped Testimonies in Court
18: Jonathan Herring: The Power of Naming: Surnames, Children, and Spouses
19: Luna Filipovic: The Role of Language in Legal Contexts: A Forensic Cross-linguistic Viewpoint
20: Hrafn Asgeirsson: Vagueness and Power-Delegation in Law: A Reply to Sorensen
21: David Gurnham: Plato's Fertility Clinic: Status and Identity Rhetoric in Parenthood Disputes
22: Janet Ainsworth: Silence, Speech, and the Paradox of the Right to Remain Silent in American Police Interrogation
23: Anthony Amatrudo: The Consumption of Legal Language: Consuming the Law
24: Catrin Fflur Huws: (Language + Law)2 = ?
25: Kim Barker: MMORPGing, Law, and Lingo
26: Paul S. Davies: Construing Commercial Contracts: No Need for Violence
27: Claire A. Hill: Why Are Non-US Contracts Written in US Legalese? Some Preliminary Thoughts, and a Research Agenda
28: Rachel Herron: The Role of Parliamentary Rhetoric in Facilitating the Racial Effect of the Section 44 Terrorism Act 2000 Stop and Search Powers
29: Karen McAuliffe: Precedent at the Court of Justice of the European Union: the Linguistic Aspect
30: Bénédicte Sage-Fuller, Ferdinand Prinz zur Lippe, and Seán Ó Conaill: Law and Language(s) at the Heart of the European Project: Educating Different Kinds of Lawyers
31: Simone Glanert and Pierre Legrand: Foreign Law in Translation: If Truth Be Told...
32: Lorenz Kähler: First-person Perspectives in Legal Decisions
33: Bencie Woll and Christopher Stone: Deaf People at the Old Bailey from the 18th Century Onwards
34: Gary Watt: Rule of the Root: Proto-Indo-European Domination of Legal Language
35: Penelope Pether: Necessary Violence?: Inscribing the Subject of Law

Edited by Michael Freeman, emeritus Professor of English Law, University College London, and Fiona Smith, Senior lecturer, University College London

 

Contributors: 
Janet Ainsworth, John D. Eshelman Professor of Law at Seattle University.
Michelle Aldridge-Waddon, Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication at Cardiff University.
Anthony Amatrudo, Reader in Criminology at Middlesex University
Hrafn Asgeirsson, Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles.
Kim Barker, PhD Candidate, Aberystwyth University.
Brian H. Bix, Frederick W. Thomas Professor of Law & Philosophy, University of Minnesota.
Steven Cammiss, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Leicester.
Robyn Carston, Professor of Linguistics, University College London and CSMN, Oslo.
Ross Charnock, MCF, Univ Paris-Dauphine, CRCL/CREA. 
Paul S. Davies, Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.
Catrin Fflur Huws, Lecturer Department of Law and Criminology & Director of the Centre for Welsh Legal Affairs, Aberystwyth University.
Luna Filipovic, Senior Lecturer in Applied Translation Enterprise and Engagement Director, School of Language and Communication Studies, University of East Anglia.
Michael Freeman FBA, Emeritus Professor of English Law, University College London.
Simone Glanert, Lecturer in French and Comparative Law, University of Kent.
David Gurnham, Reader, School of Law, University of Southampton.
Andrew Halpin, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore.
Michael Hancher, Professor of English, University of Minnesota.
Eric Heinze, Professor of Law, Department of Law, Queen Mary, University of London.
Jonathan Herring, Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford University.
Rachel Herron, PhD candidate, Law School, University of Durham.
Claire A. Hill, Professor & James L. Krusemark Chair in Law and Director, Institute for Law and Rationality, University of Minnesota Law School.
Lorenz Kaehler, Visiting Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany.
Pierre Legrand, Professor of Law, Sorbonne (Paris).
June Luchjenbroers, Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and English Language at Bangor University, Wales.
Andrei Marmor, Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Southern California.
Karen McAuliffe, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Exeter.
Sebastian McEnvoy, UPOND (University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense).
Richard Nobles, Professor of Law, Queen Mary, University of London.
Seán Ó Conaill, Law and Irish Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University College Cork.
Penelope Pether, Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law.
Ferdinand Prinz zur Lippe, Law School, Trinity College Dublin. 
Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham, School of Law.
Bénédicte Sage-Fuller, Faculty of Law, University College Cork.
Benjamin Schaer, Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Law, Carleton University, Ottawa.
David Schiff, Professor of Law, Queen Mary, University of London.
Jan-Melissa Schramm, Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
Fiona Smith, Senior Lecturer in Laws & Director, WTO Scholars Forum, Faculty of Laws, University College London.
Christopher Stone, Interpreter and Coordinator, Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre University College London.
Marco Wan, Assistant Professor of Law and Honorary Assistant Professor of English, University of Hong Kong.
Gary Watt, Professor of Law at the University of Warwick.
Steven L. Winter is the Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law at Wayne State University Law School.
Bencie Woll, Professor, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

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