Perspectives on Legal Language

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  1. William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV and Mercer Law School, Law & Rhetoric eJournal
    (Social Science Research Network)
    http://www.ssrn.com/link/Law-Rhetoric.html
  2. Rupert Haigh, Legal English
    4th ed. (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2015)
    K 94 H35 2015
    Electronic: http://www.library.yorku.ca/e/resolver/id/2630433
  3. Andrei Marmor, The language of law
    (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)
    The internet edition: http://www.library.yorku.ca/e/resolver/id/2557137
  4. Alison Riley and Patricia Sours, Common law legal English and grammar: a contextual approach,
    (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014)
    K 213 R55 2014
  5. Heikki E.S. Mattila, Comparative legal linguistics: language of law, Latin and modern lingua francas,
    2nd ed., trans. by Christopher Goddard (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013)
    K 213 M385 2013
  6. Harold J. Berman, Law and language: effective symbols of community,
    ed. by John Witte, Jr. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
    K 213 B475 2013
  7. The Oxford handbook of language and law, ed. by Peter M. Tiersma and Lawrence M. Solan
    (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
    K 213 O94 2012
  8. Rupert Haigh, Legal English
    3rd ed. (London: Routledge, 2012)
    K 94 H35 2012
  9. Anne Wagner and Le Cheng, ed., Exploring courtroom discourse : the language of power and control
    (Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, 2011)
    K 213 E95 2011
  10. Davide Simone Giannoni & Celina Frade, ed., Researching language and the law : textual features and translation issues
    (Bern : Peter Lang, 2010)
    K 213 R47 2010
  11. Randy Cauthen, Black letters : an ethnography of a beginning legal writing course
    (Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, 2010)
    KF 250 C38 2010
  12. Frances Olsen, Alexander Lorz and Dieter Stein, ed., Translation issues in language and law
    (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
    K 213 T734 2009
  13. Joost Breuker et al., ed., Law, ontologies and the semantic web: channelling the legal information flood
    (Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press, 2009)
    K 212 L39 2009
  14. Roy Harris and Christopher Hutton, Definition in theory and practice: language, lexicography and the law
    (London: Continuum, 2007)
    BC 199 D4 H37 2007
  15. Anne Wagner and Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy, eds., Obscurity and clarity in the law: prospects and challenges
    (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008)
    K 213 O27 2008
  16. Sanford Schane, Language and the law
    (London: Continuum, 2006)
    K 213 S329 2006
  17. 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)
  18. Rupert Haigh, Legal English
    (London: Cavendish, 2004)
    K 94 H35 2004
  19. Alfred Phillips, Lawyers' language : how and why legal language is different
    (London: Routledge, 2003)
    K 213 P45 2003
  20. 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
  21. Peter M. Tiersma, Legal language
    (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)
    K 213 T54 1999
  22. John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr, Just words : law, language, and power
    (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)
    K 213 C643 1998
  23. Manuel Atienza and Juan Ruiz Manero, A theory of legal sentences
    (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998)
    K 213 A753 1998
  24. 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
  25. 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    Hein
  26. Kenneth Hudson, The jargon of the professions
    (London: Macmillan, 1978)
    PE 1585 H8 (Scott)
  27. David Mellinkoff, The language of the law
    (Boston : Little, Brown, 1963)
    K 290 M45
  28. G. Orwell, "Politics and the English Language"
    Horizon 13(76):252-265 (Apr 1946)
    AP 4 H88 (Scott)    SFX link resolver
    On the web at: http://www.unz.org/Pub/Horizon-1946apr-00252
    The new republic 114:872-874 (June 17, 1946)
    AP 2 N3782 (Scott-MICR)    SFX link resolver
    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    Hein
    On the web at: http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit


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