The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law

Peter Tiersma was the Hon. William Matthew Bryne Professor of Law at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles from 2009 until his death in 2014. He had a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, San Diego, and a J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Legal Language (1999) and Parchment, Paper, Pixels: Law and the Technologies of Communication (2010).Lawrence Solan is the Don Forchelli Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition at Brooklyn Law School. He is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law and the author of Language and Judges (1993).

• PART I: LEGAL LANGUAGE; PART II: THE INTERPRETATION OF LEGAL TEXTS; PART III: MULTILINGUALISM AND TRANSLATION; PART IV: LANGUAGE RIGHTS; PART V: LANGUAGE AND CRIMINAL LAW; PART VI: COURTROOM DISCOURSE; PART VII: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; PART VIII: IDENTIFICATION OF AUTHORSHIP AND DECEPTION; PART IX: SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION

This collection is a tremendous accomplishment from two of the leading figures in language and law, and I would highly recommend it. The chapters contain a wealth of invaluable information and ideas, and the book makes an important statement about the need to bridge the gap between legal, linguistic and psychological approaches to language and law.