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

ILLA (website in development)

  This is the professional website of Peter Tiersma