1.Introduction: Translating Law and Social Science
William K. Ford & Elizabeth Mertz
PART ONE Analyzing Legal Translations on the Ground
2. Translating Defendants' Apologies During Allocution at
Sentencing
M. Catherine Gruber
2A Gruber "In Translation"
Frances Tung
3. Translating Token Instances of "This" into Type Patterns of
"That": The Discursive and
Multimodal Translation of Evidence into Precedent
Gregory Matoesian
3A Matoesian "In Translation"
Christopher Roy and Elizabeth Mertz
4. Comments on Matoesian and Gruber: Performative Risks in Risking
Performance
Michael Silverstein
4A Silverstein "In Translation"
Elizabeth Mertz
PART TWO System-Level Challenges: When Courts Translate Social
Science
5. The Law and Science of Video Game Violence: Who Lost More in
Translation?
William K. Ford
6. Being Human: Negotiating Religion, Law, and Science in the
Classroom and the Courtroom
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
7. Social Science and the Ways of the Trial Court: Possibilities of
Translation
Robert P. Burns
8. Part Two Commentary: Processes of Translation and Demarcation in
Legal Worlds
Susan Gal
PART THREE Toward Improved Translations: Recognizing the
Barriers
9. "Can you get there from here?" Translating Law and Social
Science
Elizabeth Mertz
10. Law's Resistance to Translation: What Law & Literature Can
Teach Us
Peter Brooks (interview)
PART FOUR Concluding Remarks
11. Afterword: Some Further Thoughts on Translating Law and Social
Science
Gregory Matoesian
Elizabeth Mertz is John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law at the
University of Wisconsin Law School and Research Faculty at the
American Bar Foundation. Her research focuses on the language of
law in the U.S., in part through an examination of how that
language is taught to first-year law students. Her book on that
process is entitled The Language of Law School: Learning to "Think
Like a Lawyer," and it was the co-winner of the Herbert
Jacob Prize of the Law & Society Association.
William K. Ford is Associate Professor of Law at John Marshall Law
School. He received his law degree from the University of Chicago
in 2003. Before joining the faculty at The John Marshall Law School
in Chicago, he worked for the Los Angeles firm of Irell & Manella
and then returned to the University of Chicago Law School as a
Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law.
Gregory M. Matoesian is Professor in the Department of Criminology,
Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His main
area of study is language and multimodal practice in legal
settings. He is the author of Reproducing Rape: Domination through
Talk in the Courtroom (University of Chicago Press) and Law and the
Language of Identity: Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape
Trial (Oxford University Press), as well as numerous articles in
law
and society and linguistic journals.
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