Topic
Language
74 published works
Thompson Coburn LLP
Language Access in the Workplace: A Practical Guide for Employers
For employers with multilingual workforces, clear communication is both a legal and operational imperative. Federal and state laws prohibit policies that disproportionately affect employees based on language, accent, or national…
Turtle Talk
New Student Scholarship on Compensation for Indigenous Language Loss
David Yanda has published “Compensation for Indigenous Language Loss” in the Wisconsin International Law Journal. Here is the abstract: The destruction of Indigenous languages in both the United States and…
The Law and Other Anomalies
Meme me a Meme
There is an ill-used category for posts to this site called “I’ve been thinking.” First, I normally post as to substantive matters and have even stopped posting about the aggravating…
Critical Legal Thinking
Militant Democracy as Neurosis
By Bart Jansen
Walter Benjamin invites us to think language in a radically different way: not as a neutral medium of communication, but as something living, something creative. For him, language is not…
Althouse
"Why everything is ‘aesthetic’ to Gen Z and Alpha/'Aesthetic' is now an adjective and a one-word compliment. Why does it still sound wrong to older ears?"
By Ann Althouse
That headline at the Washington Post sent me right to the OED to see when "aesthetic" first became an adjective. The relevant meaning is "Of a thing: in accordance with principles of…
Jenkins Blog
Recent Additions to the Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and usage of 600,000…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Has Ai changed your language?
By Peter Vogel
ComputerWorld.com reported that “People are starting to “talk like AI,” according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. While teachers and business leaders complain about people using AI chatbots to write and communicate — and more and more public figures use AI-controlled avatars to…
The Journal of Indian Law and Society Blog
संविधान राजनीतिक दलों को विनियमित क्यों करता है?
By Jilsblognujs
By Anshul Dalmia (This blog is the second in the series of blogs that JILS will publish in various vernacular languages as part of its initiative to mark International Mother…
California Corporate & Securities Law Blog
Is A Notitia Congregationis Valid In California?
"Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to."*…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From The Bookshelves: Rivermouth by Alejandra Oliva
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration is a 2023 memoir penned by Alejandra Oliva. You've got to be intrigued by this "starred review" from Publisher's Weekly: "With uncut…