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
