The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law

Part I: Legal Language
1: Peter Tiersma: A History of the Language of the Law
2: Heikki E. S. Mattila: Legal Vocabulary
3: Risto Hiltunen: The Grammar and Structure of Legal Texts
4: Maurizio Gotti: Text and Genre
5: Mark Adler: The Plain Language Movement
Part II: The Interpretation of Legal Texts
6: Lawrence M. Solan: Linguistic Issues in Statutory Interpretation
7: Sanford Schane: Contract Formation as a Speech Act
8: Robert W. Bennett: Constitutional Interpretation
9: Ralf Poscher: Ambiguity and Vagueness in Legal Interpretation
10: Brian H. Bix: Legal Interpretation and the Philosophy of Language
Part III: Multilingualism and Translation
11: Michel Bastarache: Bilingual Interpretation Rules as a Component of Language Rights in Canada
12: Jan Engberg: Word Meaning and the Problem of a Globalized Legal Order
13: Susan Sarcevic: Challenges to the Legal Translator
14: Karen McAuliffe: Language and Law in the European Union
15: Cornelis J. W. Baaij: Fifty years of Multilingual Interpretation in the European Union
Part IV: Language Rights
16: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Linguistic Human Rights
17: Peter Tiersma: Language Policy in the United States
18: Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz: Legal Rights of Linguistic Minorities in the EU
19: Tunde Olusola Opeibi: Investigating the Language Situation in Africa
Part V: Language and Criminal Law
20: Janet Ainsworth: The Meaning of Silence in The Right to Remain Silent
21: Naomi E. S. Goldstein, Sharon Messenheimer, Christina Riggs L. Romaine, and Heather Zelle: Potential Impact of Juvenile Suspects' Linguistic Abilities on Miranda Understanding and Appreciation
22: Frances Rock: The "Caution" in England and Wales
23: Janice Nadler and J. D. Trout: The Language of Consent in Police Encounters
24: Peter Tiersma and Lawrence M. Solan: The Language of Crime
25: Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo: Interrogation Through Pragmatic Implication: Sticking to the Letter of the Law While Violating Its Intent
Part VI: Courtroom Discourse
26: Gail Stygall: Discourse in the U.S. Courtroom
27: Mami Hiraike Okawara: Courtroom Discourse in Japan's New Judicial Order
28: Liao Meizhen: Courtroom Discourse in China
29: Martha L. Komter and Marijke Malsch: The Language of Trials in an Inquisitorial Criminal Law System
30: Susan Berk-Saligson: Linguistic Issues in Courtroom Interpretation
31: Nancy S. Marder: Instructing the Jury
Part VII: Intellectual Property
32: Roger W. Shuy: Using Linguistics in Trademark Cases
33: Ronald R. Butters: Language and Copyright Law
34: Syugo Hotta and Masahiro Fujita: The Psycholinguistic Basis of Distinctions in Trademark Law
Part VIII: Identification of Authorship and Deception
35: Carole E. Chaski: Authorship Identification in the Forensic Setting
36: Krzysztof Kredens and Malcolm Coulthard: Corpus Linguistics in Authorship Identification
37: David Wools: Detecting Plagiarism
Part IX: Speaker Identification
38: Peter L. Patrick: Language Analysis for Determination of Origin
39: A. Daniel Yarmey: Factors Affecting Lay Person's Identification of Speakers
40: Paul Foulkes and Peter French: Forensic Speaker Comparison

Edited by Peter Tiersma, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, and Lawrence Solan, Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Language, and Cognition, Brooklyn Law School

Peter Tiersma is the Hon. William Matthew Bryne Professor of Law at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles. He has a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, San Diego, and a J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Legal Language (1999) and Parchment, Paper, Pixels: Law and the Technologies of Communication (2010).

Lawrence Solan is the Don Forchelli Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition at Brooklyn Law School. He is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law and the author of Language and Judges (1993).

Contributors: 

Lawrence M. Solan, Don Forchelli Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition, Brooklyn Law School
Peter Tiersma, Hon. William Matthew Byrne Professor of Law, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles
Mark Adler,
Janet Ainsworth, John D. Eshelman Professor, Seattle University School of Law
Cornelis J. W. Baaij, University of Amsterdam School of Law
Michel Bastarache, Counsel to the Law Firm Heenan Blaikie
Robert W. Bennett, Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law, Northwestern Law School
Susan Berk-Seligson, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Vanderbilt University
Brian H. Bix, Frederick W. Thomas Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Minnesota
Ronald R. Butters, Emeritus Professor of English and Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Jasone Cenoz, Professor of Education, University of the Basque Country
Carole E. Chaski, Executive Director of the Institute for Linguistic Evidence and the CEO of ALIAS Technology LLC
Malcolm Coulthard, Emeritus Professor of Forensic Linguistics, University of Aston
Deborah Davis, Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, and President of Sierra Trial and Opinion Consultants
Jan Engberg, Professor of Knowledge Communication at the Department Business Communication, University of Aarhus
Paul Foulkes, Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York
Peter French, Director of JP French Associates
Masahiro Fujita,Social Psychology at the Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University
Naomi E. S. Goldstein, Department of Psychology, Drexel University
Durk Gorter, Ikerbasque Research Professor, Faculty of Education, University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian/Donostia
Maurizio Gotti, Professor of English Language and Translation and Director of the Research Centre on Specialized Languages (CERLIS), University of Bergamo
Risto Hiltunen, Professor of English, University of Turku
Syugo Hotta, Professor of Language and Law, Meiji University School of Law
Martha L. Komter, Department of Language and Communication, Vrije Universiteit
Krzysztof Kredens, School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University
Richard A. Leo, Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law
Marijke Malsch, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR)
Nancy S. Marder, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Heikki E. S. Mattila, Professor Emeritus of Legal Linguistics, University of Lapland
Karen McAuliffe, Lecturer in the School of Law, University of Exeter
Liao Meizhen, Associate Dean, School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University
Sharon Messenheimer, Law-Psychology Program at Drexel University and Villanova University School of Law
Janice Nadler, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Mami Hiraike Okawara, Professor and Dean at Graduate School of Regional Policy, Takasaki City University of Economics
Tunde Olusola Opeibi, Department of English, University of Lagos
Peter L. Patrick, Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Essex
Ralf Poscher, Professor of Public Law and Director of the Institute for Staatswissenschaft and Philosophy of Law
Frances Rock, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University
Christina Riggs L. Romaine, Clinical Psychology Program, Drexel University
Susan Sarcevic, Professor and Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Rijeka
Sanford Schane, Research Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego
Roger W. Shuy, Distinguished Research Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, Georgetown University
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas,
Gail Stygall, Professor of English Language, University of Washington, Seattle
J. D. Trout, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Loyola University in Chicago
David Woolls, Chief Executive Officer of CFL Software Limited
A. Daniel Yarmey, University Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph
Heather Zelle, Law-Psychology Program, Drexel University and Villanova University School of Law