Welcome to LANGUAGEandLAW.org
An online institute devoted to the study of language and the law
LANGUAGEandLAW.org is devoted to the study of all of the ways in which language and the law intersect, including issues such as:
- the nature of legal language (its history and linguistic features)
- language in the courtroom
- the language of perjury (focusing on the Clinton impeachment)
- the creation, structure, and interpretation of the legal text
- sample legal texts from throughout the ages (wills, deeds, writs, trials, etc.)
- language rights (language policy, bilingual issues, official English movement, etc.)
- jury instructions (current efforts to improve them, and updates on California‘s new instructions)
- the plain English movement
- the field of forensic linguistics
- lawyer jokes and what they tell us about the legal profession
- Peter Tiersma‘s book, Legal Language
- Speaking of Crime, a recent book by Lawrence Solan and Peter Tiersma
- organizations and conferences devoted to language and law
- Old Frisian law (the Skeltana Riucht)
- selective bibliography on language and law
- Peter Tiersma‘s publications
- links to other interesting sites
This is the professional website of Peter Tiersma
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