Perspectives on Legal Language

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Sanford Schane, Language and the law
(London: Continuum, 2006)
K 213 S329 2006
John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr, Just words : law, language, and power
2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005)
K 213 C643 2005 (Scott)
Rupert Haigh, Legal English
(London: Cavendish, 2004)
K 94 H35 2004
Alfred Phillips, Lawyers' language : how and why legal language is different
(London: Routledge, 2003)
K 213 P45 2003
Marlyn Robinson, ed., Language and the law : proceedings of a conference, December 6-8, 2001, Tarlton Law Library, the University of Texas School of Law
(Buffalo, NY : W.S. Hein, 2003)
K 213 L357 2003
Peter M. Tiersma, Legal language
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)
K 213 T54 1999
John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr, Just words : law, language, and power
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)
K 213 C643 1998
Manuel Atienza and Juan Ruiz Manero, A theory of legal sentences
(Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998)
K 213 A753 1998
Peter Brooks and Paul Gewirtz, Law's stories: narrative and rhetoric in the law
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996)
K 213 L398 1996
M.J. Mossman, "The Use of Non-Discriminatory Language in the Law"
Canadian Bar Review 73(3):347-371 (September 1994)
PER C168 SFX link resolver
On the web at: http://www.cba.org/
David Mellinkoff, The language of the law
(Boston : Little, Brown, 1963)
K 290 M45
G. Orwell, "Politics and the English Language"
Horizon 13(76):252-265 (Apr 1946)
AP 4 H88 (Scott)
reprinted in Shooting an Elephant, and Other Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1950)
PR 6029 R8 S5 (Scott)
also reprinted in The Advocate 51(2):237-245 (Mar 1993)
PER AD96 SFX link resolver
On the web at: http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit