The
Textualization of Precedent
Some
Myths About Legal Language
Language Wars Truce Accepted (with
Conditions)
The
New Black’s
Hearing
Voices: Speaker Identification in American Courts (with Lawrence
Solan)
A Message in a Bottle: Text, Autonomy, and Statutory
Interpretation
The Linguist on the Witness Stand: Forensic Linguistics in American
Courts (with
Lawrence Solan)
The Language of Silence
The Rocky Road to Legal Reform: Improving the Language of Jury
Instructions
The Judge as Linguist
Dictionaries and Death: Do Capital Jurors Understand
Mitigation?
Reforming the Language of Jury Instructions
Reassessing Unilateral Contracts
A (fairly) complete list
of my
publications:
(sorry-these are not available
for free, unless included in the list above)
LEGAL BOOKS
The Oxford
Handbook on Language and Law (co-edited with
Lawrence
Solan) (in preparation).
Speaking of
Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice (with Lawrence
Solan) (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Legal Language (University of
Chicago Press, 1999; paperback edition
published in April, 2000).
LEGAL
ARTICLES
Redrafting
California’s Jury
Instructions, in The
Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics 251 (Malcolm Coulthard and
Alison Johnson, eds.). London:
Routledge, 2010.
Asking Jurors To
Do the
Impossible. 5
Tenn. J. Law & Policy 105 (2009).
What is Language
and Law? And Does
Anyone Care?, in Law and
Language: Theory and Society (Frances
Olsen, Alexander Lorz, & Dieter Stein eds., 2008).
Testing the
Comprehension of Jury
Instructions: California’s Old and New Instructions on Circumstantial
Evidence,
1 J. Court Innovation 231 (2008) (with Mathew Curtis).
The Nature of
Legal Language, in
Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics
(John Gibbons and M. Teresa Turell eds., 2008).
Writing, Text,
and the Law,
in Handbook of Research on Writing 129 (Charles Bazerman ed. 2008).
The Language of
Consent in Rape Law,
in The Language of Sexual Crime (Janet Cotterill ed. 2007).
The Textualization of Precedent, 82 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1187 (2007)
Communicating
with Juries: How to Draft More Understandable Jury Instructions
(Published as a booklet by the National Center for State Courts and
distributed to judges nationwide in 2006). Also available in The
Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 10, No. 1.
Some Myths About
Legal Language,
2 Law, Culture and Humanities 29 (2006).
The
Language Of Legal Texts,
in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Ed., Keith Brown
(ed.), 2006).
The New
Black’s,
55 J. Legal Education 386 (2005).
Language
Wars Truce Accepted (with
Conditions), 8 Green Bag 2d
281 (2005).
Categorical
Lists in the Law, in Vagueness
in Normative Texts (Vijay K.
Bhatia, Jan Engberg, Maurizio Gotti, and Dorothee Heller eds., 2005).
Cops and Robbers: Selective Literalism in American
Criminal Law, 38 Law
and Society Review 229 (2004) (coauthored with Lawrence Solan).
Did Clinton Lie? Defining ”Sexual Relations,” 79 Chicago Kent Law
Review 927 (2004)
Jury Questions: An Update to Kalven and Zeisel, 39 Criminal Law
Bulletin 10 (2003).
Hearing Voices: Speaker Identification in American Courts, 54
Hastings Law Journal 373 (2003) (coauthored with Lawrence Solan).
From Speech to Writing: Textualization and its Consequences, in
Language and the Law: Proceedings of a Conference (Marlyn Robinson
2003).
The Language and Law of Product Warnings, in Language in the Legal
Process 54 (Janet Cotterill ed., 2002).
The Linguist on the Witness Stand: Forensic Linguistics in American
Courts, 78 Language 221 (2002) (coauthored with Lawrence
Solan).
A Message in a Bottle: Text, Autonomy, and Statutory Interpretation, 76
Tulane Law Review 431 (2001).
Textualizing the Law, 8:2 Forensic Linguistics 73 (2001).
The Rocky Road to Legal Reform: Improving the Language of Jury
Instructions, 66 Brooklyn Law Review 1081 (2001).
A Missed Opportunity: United States Supreme Court Upholds a Convoluted
Death Penalty Instruction, 46 Clarity 20 (2001).
Jury Instructions in the New Millennium, 36 Court Review 28 (Summer
1999).
The Language of Silence, 48 Rutgers Law Review 1 (1995).
The Ambiguity of Interpretation: Distinguishing Interpretation from
Construction, 73 Washington Law Quarterly 1095 (1995).
Dictionaries and Death: Do Capital Jurors Understand Mitigation?, 1995
Utah Law Review 1.
Reforming the Language of Jury Instructions, 22 Hofstra Law Review 37
(1993).
Nonverbal Communication and the Freedom of "Speech". 1993 Wisconsin Law
Review 1525.
The Judge as Linguist. 27 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 269
(1993).
Linguistic Issues in the Law. 69 Language: Journal of the Linguistic
Society of America 113 (1993).
Reassessing Unilateral Contracts. 26 U.C. Davis Law Review 1
(1992).
Portions reprinted in Randy E. Barnett, Perspectives
on Contract Law (1995)
The Language of Perjury: "Literal Truth," Ambiguity and the False
Statement Requirement. 63 Southern California Law Review 373
(1990).
Reprinted in 3 Criminal Practice Law Review 37
(1990).
Rites of Passage: Legal Ritual in Roman Law and Anthropological
Analogues. 9 Journal of Legal History 1 (1988).
The Language of Defamation. 66 Texas Law Review 303 (1987).
The Language of Offer and Acceptance: Speech Acts and the Question of
Intent. 74 California Law Review 189232 (1986).
Portions reprinted in Bruce E. Altschuler &
Celia A. Sgroi, Understanding Law in a Changing Society (1992).
Portions reprinted in Richard Craswell & Alan
Schwartz, Foundations in Contract Law (1994).
SIGNIFICANT BRIEFS
Brief Amicus Curiae for the Linguistic Society of America in the Alaska
Supreme Court case, Kritz v. Alaskans for a Common Language (2003).
Brief Amicus Curiae for the Linguistic Society of America in the
Arizona Supreme Court case, Ruiz v. Hull, 954 P.2d 984 (Ariz. 1998).
Brief Amicus Curiae for the Linguistic Society of America and the
National Council for Languages and International Studies in the United
States Supreme Court case Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona
(1996).
Answer Brief on the Merits and Supplemental Brief in the California
Supreme Court case New York Times Company v. Superior Court (January
1989) (with others).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Falling on Deaf Ears: Scientists Say that Earwitnesses are
Unreliable. Why Aren’t the Courts Listening?, Legal Affairs 71
(Nov./Dec. 2003) (with Lawrence Solan).
Linguists and the Law. Loyola Lawyer 10 (Fall 1993).
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Dennis Kurzon, It is Hereby Performed . . . Studies in Legal
Speech Acts (Pragmatics and Beyond VII:6). 13 Studies in Language
245 (1989).
Review of Bettyruth Walter, The Jury Summation as Speech Genre: An
Ethnographic Study of What It Means to Those Who Use It. 13
Studies in Language 527 (1989).
LINGUISTIC BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS
Frisian Reference Grammar. Fryske Akademy, Ljouwert, Netherlands
(2d edition, 1999).
Frisian Reference Grammar. Foris Publications. (1985).
The Lexicon in Phonological Theory. Indiana University
Linguistics Club, Bloomington, Indiana (1980).
Aspects of the Phonology of Frisian. Meidieling 4 of the Frisian
Program at the Free University of Amsterdam (1979).
ARTICLES IN LINGUISTICS
Frisian, in The Germanic Languages (Johan van der Auwera and Ekkehard
König, eds. 1994) 505 (by invitation; co-authored with Jarich
Hoekstra).
Lokale Markeardens yn it Frysk, 8 Tydskrift foar Fryske Taalkunde 110
(1993).
Language Change in a Bilingual Community: Some Frisian Data. In:
Dutch Linguistics at Berkeley: Papers Presented at the Dutch
Linguistics Colloquium at the University of California, Berkeley. (J.
van Oosten & J.P. Snapper, eds., 1986).
Comments on the Development of Breaking. 35 Us Wurk 1-11 (1986).
Language-based Humor in the Marx Brothers Films. Indiana
University Linguistics Club (1985).
The Nature of Lexical Representation. 19 Journal of Linguistics
59-78 (1983).
Rule Recession and Rule Loss. Proceedings of the XIII
International Congress of Linguists, Tokyo, Japan (1983).
Local and General Markedness. 58 Language 832-49 (1982).
Some Phonetic Aspects of Breaking in West Frisian (with Tseard de
Graaf). 37 Phonetica 109-20 (1980).
Some Theoretical Implications of Stem Alternations in Dutch Diminutives
and Plurals. In Studies in Dutch Phonology (W. Zonneveld ed.
1980).
Phonological Opacity and the Notion of Contrast. In Linguistics
in The Netherlands, 1977-79 (W. Zonneveld ed. 1980).
Bidirectional Leveling as Evidence for Relational Rules. 45
Lingua 65-77 (1978).
The Nature of f and v in Frisian and Marathi. 3 Journal of
Phonetics 17-23 (1975).
REVIEW ARTICLE
Recent Phonological Theory. Review of Dinnsen, Current Approaches
to Phonological Theory. 54 Lingua 227-48 (1981).
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction (Michael
Geis). 74 Language 137 (1998).
Review of Wurdfoarried en Wurdgrammatika (S. Dyk and G. de Haan,
eds.). 65 Language 648 (1989).
Review of Wurdfoarried en Wurdgrammatika (S. Dyk and G. de Haan,
eds.). 78 Leuvense Bijdragen 379 (1989).
Review of Van der Meer, Frisian Breaking. Leuvense Bijdragen.
Two New Frisian Dictionaries. 8 Dictionaries: Journal of the
Dictionary Society of North America 279 (1986).
Review of T.L. Markey, Frisian. 59 Lingua 375-79. (1983).
Review of Raimo Anttila, Analogy. 51 Lingua 271 (1980).
Review of Paolo Ramat, Das Friesische. 47 Lingua 356-58 (1979).