Table of Contents

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