It has long been recognized that court trials, both criminal and civil, in the common law
system, operate around pairs of competing narratives told by opposing advocates. In recent …

This paper focuses on two legal languages such as the legal English developed by the
European Union institutions (Euro English) and the legal Chinese of Mainland China, to …

Jurisdictional imaginaries, defined as constitutive and productive fictions with real world
effects, serve a distinct purpose in the context of debates over Canadian environmental …

The present study has conducted a diachronic analysis of law and order metaphors in a self-
compiled corpus of China's Government Work Reports (CGWR) over a span of 22 years …

In this paper I take it for granted that legal institutions are artifacts. In general, this can very
well be considered a trivial thesis in legal philosophy. As trivial as this thesis may be …

With the advent of web 2.0 technologies, a preliminary step when looking for legal
information and advice often involves the use of online law forums. Through the analysis of a …

In the course of his discussion of the role of slavery in the domestic economy of the ancient
Greek city, Aristotle makes the claim that" the slave is a kind of animate piece of …

El interés por el lenguaje jurídico y su análisis no es algo novedoso. Existen numerosos
estudios que se centran en esta variante del lenguaje especializado desde diversas áreas …

The main aim of this study is to investigate the role of blawgs as a source of legal information
both within and external to the epistemic law community and as a legitimizing tool for the …

Explore the lengthy history of legal metaphors in ancient prayer In biblical and other ancient
Near Eastern sources, prayer is an opportunity to make one's case before divine judges …