THE OXFORD HANDBOOK ON LANGUAGE AND LAW

Edited by Peter Tiersma and Lawrence Solan


The Handbook was published in early 2012. It contains 40 chapters, a list of references, and an index, comprising a total of 642 pages.

A "book launch" was sponsored by Loyola Law School in April, 2012. Speakers were Richard Leo, Roger Shuy, Lawrence Solan, and Peter Tiersma. The introduction to the event was by Dean Victor Gold.  A video (real media) of the book launch is available online; it is also available in wmv format.  You can also listen to it (it takes less bandwidth).

The book can be ordered from Oxford University Press.  It is also available online (for example, at Amazon.com), and is available for about half price in a Kindle edition.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Lawrence M. Solan and Peter M. Tiersma, Introduction.

I.  Legal Language

II.  The Interpretation of Legal Texts

III.  Multilingualism and Translation

IV.  Language Rights

V.  Language and Criminal Law

VI. Courtroom Discourse

VII.  Intellectual Property

VIII.  Identification of Authorship and Deception

IX.    Speaker Identification
References

Index