Personal privacy ≠ corporate privacy
I didn’t intend for the first substantive post here to be devoted to shameless self-promotion, but it’s not every day that a Supreme Court justice gives you a shout-out during an oral argument. I’m...
View ArticleDecision in FCC v. AT&T
The Supreme Court has decided FCC v. AT&T, the most recent case in which I filed an amicus brief, which I wrote about here. The issue in the case is whether corporations are protected by the...
View ArticleAlways speaking?
I have an article coming out (link) in the Canadian Journal of Linguistics, in a special issue on time and modality in legal language. The title is “Always speaking”? Interpreting the present tense in...
View ArticleThe Recess Appointments Clause: LAWnLinguistics goes to court
My post on the Recess Appointments Clause was cited in a supplemental letter brief that was filed by the Justice Department in a Recess-Appointments case pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals (page 11,...
View ArticleCorpus linguistics coming to the Sixth Circuit bench? (Plus LAWnCorpusLing...
Adam Liptak reports in the New York Times that President Trump will announce a number of nominations to the lower federal courts, and that one of them is Justice Joan L. Larsen of the Michigan Supreme...
View ArticleAnother judicial endorsement of corpus linguistics
On Facebook, Stephen Mouritsen writes, “Justice Christine Durham [of the Utah Supreme Court] finally comes around to corpus linguistics . . . and then promptly retires. (Oh well. A win’s a win.)”...
View ArticleThinking like a linguist (some news)
I have two pieces of news I want to share. First, I am very excited to say that I have received an appointment by the Georgetown University Law Center (aka Georgetown Law) as a Dean’s Visiting Scholar....
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