Topic
Corpus Linguistics
17 published works
Legal History Blog
Whittington and Heilpern on "Subject to the Jurisdiction of"
By Dan Ernst
Keith E. Whittington, Yale Law School, and James Heilpern, who is Counsel at Schaerr Jaffe, LLP, where he specializes in complex litigation and corpus linguistics, and also a Research Fellow…
Legal Theory Blog
Walser on Interpretive Facts
Hannah Walser (New York University School of Law) has posted INTERPRETIVE FACTS: TEXTUALISM, EMPIRICISM, AND THE LAW-FACT DIVIDE on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article offers the first systematic…
Legal Theory Blog
White on Corpus Linguistics and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel
Wesley White (BYU Law School) has posted Corpus Linguistics and the Original Meaning of the Sixth Amendment (50 BYU L. Rev. 155) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Sixth…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
The Corpus Linguistics Bug: New Cases in the Sixth, Fourth Circuits.
In a previous post, we discussed corpus linguistics, an emerging tool in statutory and constitutional interpretation. It appears that the corpus linguistics bug is spreading, both in this Circuit and…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
Corpus Linguistics in the Sixth Circuit and Beyond
Corpus linguistics has been in the news lately, which gives us a chance to discuss this interesting tool of statutory interpretation and, in the process, revisit some Sixth Circuit views…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gender Bias in Empirical Textualism and the Corpus Linguistics Interpretive Technique
By Tracy Thomas
Matthew Jennejohn, Samuel Nelson, D. Carolina Nunez, Hidden Bias in Empirical Textualism, 109 Georgetown L.J. 767 (2021) A new interpretive technique called “corpus linguistics” has exploded in use over the…
Inside Jobs
Corpus Linguistics and ERISA Litigation
By Inside Jobs
On July 10, 2019, the Sixth Circuit considered vexing questions of statutory interpretation in an ERISA case. A dispute over whether a transaction bonus plan was an ERISA employee pension…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
“Lexis on Steroids”: Corpus Linguistics receives mixed reception at the Sixth Circuit
By Zak Lutz (HLS ’20; Squire Patton Boggs summer associate) and Benjamin Beaton Sixth Circuit judges have taken an interest in “corpus linguistics.” At a recent gathering in northern Kentucky,…
PrawfsBlawg
AALS CFP: Corpus Linguistics & IP
Main Tuesday, June 04, 2019AALS CFP: Corpus Linguistics & IPThe following is a CFP for the 2020 AALS Annual Meeting, co-sponsored by the Sections on IP and Law & InterpretationRecent…
PrawfsBlawg
Corpus Linguistics Comes to the Fourth Circuit (and that’s not a good thing!)
Main Wednesday, January 30, 2019Corpus Linguistics Comes to the Fourth Circuit (and that’s not a good thing!)An amicus brief was filed yesterday in the Fourth Circuit Emolument Clause case against…