Law exists solely in and through language. Nonetheless, systematical empirical analysis of
legal language has been rare. Yet, the tides are turning: After judges at various courts …

The comprehensible style of legal texts seems to be a predominantly linguistic problem. This
is how the plain-legal-language movements present it. But, while plain-language statutes …

In the context of the encounter of UK and German socio-legal studies in this issue, this
Article develops preliminary thoughts on a research agenda for the comparative …

When called upon to interpret the undefined words in a legal text, US judges will often
invoke a rule (or canon) of interpretation called the" plain meaning rule," which holds that if …

This Special Issue considers the situated and contextualized development of socio-legal, or
law and society, scholarship within two materially different legal and academic cultures …

Abstract Florian Heindler, Associate Professor at Sigmund Freud Private University, has
published the third edition of his textbook on Property Law. This review finds that the work …

This article explores the language of corporate accounts of business and human rights.
Using innovative methods drawn from computational corpus linguistics, the article explores …

Law and language can be described as complex institutions with emergent properties, like
intricate fabrics woven from single-colored fibers. This metaphor suggests to think of legal …

This chapter focuses on the use of corpora for the interpretation of statutes and constitutional
provisions. It reports a number of examples, dating from the mid-1990s to the present, where …

Debates over judicial philosophies of interpretation are not new, but the recent changes in
the makeup of the Supreme Court have thrust these debates even further into the public eye …