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Author: David Mellinkoff
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2004-05-13
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 1592446906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells what the language of the law is, how it got that way and how it works out in the practice. The emphasis is more historical than philosophical, more practical than pedantic.
Author: Peter M. Tiersma
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2012-03-08
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 0191638102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a state-of-the-art account of past and current research in the interface between linguistics and law. It outlines the range of legal areas in which linguistics plays an increasing role and describes the tools and approaches used by linguists and lawyers in this vibrant new field. Through a combination of overview chapters, case studies, and theoretical descriptions, the volume addresses areas such as the history and structure of legal language, its meaning and interpretation, multilingualism and language rights, courtroom discourse, forensic identification, intellectual property and linguistics, and legal translation and interpretation. Encyclopaedic in scope, the handbook includes chapters written by experts from every contentint who are familiar with linguistic issues that arise in diverse legal systems, including both civil and common law jurisdictions, mixed systems like that of China, and the emerging law of the European Union.
Author: Harold J. Berman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-08-08
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1107434610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompleted in 1964, Harold J. Berman's long-lost tract shows how properly negotiated, translated and formalised legal language is essential to fostering peace and understanding within local and international communities. Exemplifying interdisciplinary and comparative legal scholarship long before they were fashionable, it is a fascinating prequel to Berman's monumental Law and Revolution series. It also anticipates many of the main themes of the modern movements of law, language and ethics. In his Introduction, John Witte, Jr, a student and colleague of Berman, contextualises the text within the development of Berman's legal thought and in the evolution of interdisciplinary legal studies. He has also pieced together some of the missing sections from Berman's other early writings and provided notes and critical apparatus throughout. An Afterword by Tibor Várady, another student and colleague of Berman, illustrates via modern cases the wisdom and utility of Berman's theories of law, language and community.
Author: Stewart Rapalje
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 674
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Freeman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2013-02-21
Total Pages: 3502
ISBN-13: 019165468X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurrent 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.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-07-10
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9004375767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaw and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the relationship between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective, exploring not only how legal language expresses and advances power relations but also how the language of law legitimates power.
Author: Frances Russell
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780304330119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Douglas A. Kibbee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-07-25
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1316785122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLanguage policy is a topic of growing importance around the world, as issues such as the recognition of linguistic diversity, the establishment of official languages, the status of languages in educational systems, the status of heritage and minority languages, and speakers' legal rights have come increasingly to the forefront. One fifth of the American population do not speak English as their first language. While race, gender and religious discrimination are recognized as illegal, the US does not currently accord the same protections regarding language; discrimination on the basis of language is accepted, and even promoted, in the name of unity and efficiency. Setting language within the context of America's history, this book explores the diverse range of linguistic inequalities, covering voting, criminal and civil justice, education, government and public services, and the workplace, and considers how linguistic differences challenge our fundamental ideals of democracy, justice and fairness.
Author: Caroline Laske
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-09-25
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9004436162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaroline Laske traces the advent of consideration in English contract law by analysing doctrinal developments and the corresponding terminological semantic shifts, showcasing the value of taking an innovative diachronic corpus linguistics-based approach to the study of legal change and legal development.
Author: Sandra Del Valle
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781853596582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive review of the legal status of minority languages in the USA. It also provides the historical and political context for the legal manoeuvring that culminated in landmark civil rights victories. All of the major cases in the USA concerning language rights are discussed in detail and in a manner that should be easily accessible to the non-legal audience. The topics range from the English-only movement to consumer law, and from employment discrimination to international law.
