Advanced Interpretation: Law and Corpus Linguistics Executive Education Course in Washington, DC

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

In recent years, the use of corpus linguistics to aid in legal interpretation has been on the rise. Various state supreme courts, federal courts of appeals and district courts, and separate opinions in the United States Supreme Court have employed tools of corpus linguistics (CL) to address problems of interpretation. CL provides powerful methods that can assist in the analysis of the plain or ordinary meaning of legal texts, everything from contracts to the constitution. CL-based evidence is compelling because it employs tried and true scientific approaches to understand language to generate unbiased, replicable, and generalizable results based on massive databases of authentic language use. Advanced Interpretation: Law and Corpus Linguistics will equip you with an ability to use this potent set of tools that the field of CL offers in analyzing interpretation language behavior and usage.