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The Use of Corpus Linguistics in Legal Interpretation

Goldfarb, Neal. “The Use of Corpus Linguistics in Legal Interpretation.” Annual Review of Linguistics 7 (2021): 473-491.

The Corpus and the Courts

Tobia, Kevin. “The Corpus and the Courts.” University of Chicago Law Review Online (2021).

Corpus Linguistics and Heller

Phillips, James Cleith, and Josh Blackman. “Corpus Linguistics and Heller.” Wake Forest Law Review 56, no. 609 (2021).

Natural Language and Legal Interpretation

Mouritsen, Stephen C. “Natural Language and Legal Interpretation.” Brooklyn Law Review 86, no. 2 (2021): 533.

‘We the Citizens?’: A Corpus Linguistic Inquiry into the Use of ‘People’ and ‘Citizens’ in the Founding Era.

Stout, A., Coetzee, D., & Romer, U. (2020). “We the Citizens?’: A Corpus Linguistic Inquiry into the Use of ‘People’ and ‘Citizens’ in the Founding Era.Ga. St. UL Rev.36, 665.

Corporations and the Original Meaning of “Citizens” in Article III

Moller, Mark, and Lawrence B. Solum. “Corporations and the Original Meaning of” Citizens” in Article III.” Hastings LJ 72 (2020): 169.

Corpus Linguistics as a Method of Legal Interpretation: Some progress, some quesitions

Solan, Lawrence M. “Corpus linguistics as a method of legal interpretation: Some progress, some questions.” International Journal for the Semiotics of Law-Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique 33 (2020): 283-298.

“Questions Involving National Peace and Harmony” or “Injured Plaintiff Litigation”? The Original Meaning of “Cases” in Article III of The Constitution

Haoshan Ren, Margaret Wood, Clark D. Cunningham, Noor Abbady, Ute Römer, Heather Kuhn, & Jesse Egbert, “Questions Involving National Peace and Harmony” or “Injured Plaintiff Litigation”? The Original Meaning of “Cases” in Article III of the Constitution, 36 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 535 (2020).

Corpora and Analyzing Legal Discourse in the United States

Cunningham, Clark D. and Egbert, Jesse, Corpora and Analyzing Legal Discourse in the United States (March 13, 2020). Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis (Eric Friginal & Jack Hardy, eds. 2020 Forthcoming).

Corpora and Legal Interpretation: Corpus approaches to ordinary meaning in legal interpretation

Gries, Stefan Th. “Corpora and legal interpretation: Corpus approaches to ordinary meaning in legal interpretation.” The Routledge handbook of forensic linguistics (2020): 628-643.

Using Empirical Data to Investigate the Original Meaning of ‘Emolument’ in the Constitution

Cunningham, Clark D. and Egbert, Jesse, Using Empirical Data to Investigate the Original Meaning of ‘Emolument’ in the Constitution (October 23, 2019). 36 Georgia State University Law Review 465 (2020), Georgia State University College of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-15, Georgia State University Workshop on Law & Linguistics, October 18, 2019.

Data-Driven Originalism

Thomas R. Lee & James C. Philips, Data-Driven Originalism, 167 U. Pa. L. Rev. 261 (2019).

Triangulating Public Meaning: Corpus Linguistics, Immersion, and the Constitutional Record

Who Are “Officers of the United States”?

Jennifer L. Mascott, Who Are “Officers of the United States”?, 70 Stanford L. Rev. 443 (2018).

Judging Ordinary Meaning

Thomas R. Lee & Stephen C. Mouritsen, Judging Ordinary Meaning, 127 Yale L. J. 788 (2018).

Corpus Linguistics in Legal Interpretation— An Evolving Interpretive Framework

Stephen C. Mouritsen, Corpus Linguistics in Legal Interpretation— An Evolving Interpretive Framework, 6 INT. J. LANG. & LAW 67 (2017).

Triangulating Public Meaning: Corpus Linguistics, Immersion, and the Constitutional Record

Solum, Lawrence B., Triangulating Public Meaning: Corpus Linguistics, Immersion, and the Constitutional Record (April 26, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3019494 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3019494

A Lawyer’s Introduction to Meaning in the Framework of Corpus Linguistics

Ordinary Meaning and Corpus Linguistics

Stefan Th. Gries and Brian G. Slocum, Ordinary Meaning and Corpus Linguistics, 2017 BYU L. Rev. 1417 (2018).

Evidence-Based Jurisprudence Meets Legal Linguistics—Unlikely Blends Made in Germany

Hanjo Hamann and Friedemann Vogel, Evidence-Based Jurisprudence Meets Legal Linguistics—Unlikely Blends Made in Germany, 2017 BYU L. Rev. 1473 (2018).

Corpus Linguistics and the Criminal Law

Carissa Byrne Hessick, Corpus Linguistics and the Criminal Law, 2017 BYU L. Rev. 1503 (2018).

Datamining the Meaning(s) of Progress

Jake Linford, Datamining the Meaning(s) of Progress, 2017 BYU L. Rev. 1531 (2018).

The Dictionary as a Specialized Corpus

Jennifer L. Mascott, The Dictionary as a Specialized Corpus, 2017 BYU L. Rev. 1557 (2018).

Advancing Law and Corpus Linguistics: Importing Principles and Practices from Survey and Content Analysis Methodologies to Improve Corpus Design and Analysis

Corpus Linguistics as a Tool in Legal Interpretation

Lawrence M. Solan and Tammy Gales, Corpus Linguistics as a Tool in Legal Interpretation, 2017 BYU L. Rev. 1311 (2018).

The Power of Words: A Comment on Hamann and Vogel’s Evidence-Based Jurisprudence Meets Legal Linguistics—Unlikely Blends Made in Germany

How Big Data Can Increase Originalism’s Methodological Rigor: Using Corpus Linguistics to Reveal Original Language Conventions

The Merciful Corpus: The Rule of Lenity, Ambiguity and Corpus Linguistics

Daniel Ortner, The Merciful Corpus: The Rule of Lenity, Ambiguity and Corpus Linguistics, Boston U. Public Interest L. J. 101 (2016).

Finding Ordinary Meaning in Law: The Judge, the Dictionary or the Corpus?

Lawrence M. Solan & Tammy A. Gales, Finding Ordinary Meaning in Law: The Judge, the Dictionary or the Corpus?, 1 INT’L J. LEGAL DISCOURSE 253 (2016).

Can Corpus Linguistics Help Make Originalism Scientific?

Lawrence M. Solan, Can Corpus Linguistics Help Make Originalism Scientific?, 126 YALE L.J. F. 57 (27 May 2016).

Corpus Linguistics & Original Public Meaning: A New Tool to Make Originalism More Empirical

James C Phillips, Daniel M. Ortner & Thomas R. Lee, Corpus Linguistics & Original Public Meaning: A New Tool to Make Originalism More Empirical, 126 Yale L.J. F. 21 (18 May 2016)

War of the Words: Aliens, Immigrants, Citizens, and the Language of Exclusion

D. Carolina Núñez, War of the Words: Aliens, Immigrants, Citizens, and the Language of Exclusion, 2013 BYU L. Rev. 1517 (2013).

Hard Cases and Hard Data: Assessing Corpus Linguistics as an Empirical Path to Plain Meaning

Stephen C. Mouritsen, Hard Cases and Hard Data: Assessing Corpus Linguistics as an Empirical Path to Plain Meaning. 13 Col. Science & Tech. L. Rev. 156 (2011).

The Dictionary is Not a Fortress: Definitional Fallacies and a Corpus-Based Approach to Plain Meaning

The New Textualists’ New Text

Solan, Lawrence M., The New Textualists’ New Text. Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 38, pp. 2027-62, 2005, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 35.

Legal Discourse: Opportunities and Threats for Corpus Linguistics

Vijay K. Bhatia, Nicola M. Langton and Jane Lung, “Legal discourse: Opportunities and threats
for corpus linguistics” in Connor, Ulla, and Upton, Thomas A., eds. Discourse in the Professions : Perspectives from corpus linguistics. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004.)