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Part I: Legal Language 1: Peter Tiersma: A History of the Language of the Law 2: Heikki E. S. Mattila: Legal Vocabulary 3: Risto Hiltunen: The Grammar and Structure of Legal Texts 4: Maurizio Gotti: Text and Genre 5: Mark Adler: The Plain Language Movement Part II: The Interpretation of Legal Texts 6: Lawrence M. Solan: Linguistic Issues in Statutory Interpretation 7: Sanford Schane: Contract Formation as a Speech Act 8: Robert W. Bennett: Constitutional Interpretation 9: Ralf Poscher: Ambiguity and Vagueness in Legal Interpretation 10: Brian H. Bix: Legal Interpretation and the Philosophy of Language Part III: Multilingualism and Translation 11: Michel Bastarache: Bilingual Interpretation Rules as a Component of Language Rights in Canada 12: Jan Engberg: Word Meaning and the Problem of a Globalized Legal Order 13: Susan Sarcevic: Challenges to the Legal Translator 14: Karen McAuliffe: Language and Law in the European Union 15: Cornelis J. W. Baaij: Fifty years of Multilingual Interpretation in the European Union Part IV: Language Rights 16: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Linguistic Human Rights 17: Peter Tiersma: Language Policy in the United States 18: Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz: Legal Rights of Linguistic Minorities in the EU 19: Tunde Olusola Opeibi: Investigating the Language Situation in Africa Part V: Language and Criminal Law 20: Janet Ainsworth: The Meaning of Silence in The Right to Remain Silent 21: Naomi E. S. Goldstein, Sharon Messenheimer, Christina Riggs L. Romaine, and Heather Zelle: Potential Impact of Juvenile Suspects' Linguistic Abilities on Miranda Understanding and Appreciation 22: Frances Rock: The "Caution" in England and Wales 23: Janice Nadler and J. D. Trout: The Language of Consent in Police Encounters 24: Peter Tiersma and Lawrence M. Solan: The Language of Crime 25: Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo: Interrogation Through Pragmatic Implication: Sticking to the Letter of the Law While Violating Its Intent Part VI: Courtroom Discourse 26: Gail Stygall: Discourse in the U.S. Courtroom 27: Mami Hiraike Okawara: Courtroom Discourse in Japan's New Judicial Order 28: Liao Meizhen: Courtroom Discourse in China 29: Martha L. Komter and Marijke Malsch: The Language of Trials in an Inquisitorial Criminal Law System 30: Susan Berk-Saligson: Linguistic Issues in Courtroom Interpretation 31: Nancy S. Marder: Instructing the Jury Part VII: Intellectual Property 32: Roger W. Shuy: Using Linguistics in Trademark Cases 33: Ronald R. Butters: Language and Copyright Law 34: Syugo Hotta and Masahiro Fujita: The Psycholinguistic Basis of Distinctions in Trademark Law Part VIII: Identification of Authorship and Deception 35: Carole E. Chaski: Authorship Identification in the Forensic Setting 36: Krzysztof Kredens and Malcolm Coulthard: Corpus Linguistics in Authorship Identification 37: David Wools: Detecting Plagiarism Part IX: Speaker Identification 38: Peter L. Patrick: Language Analysis for Determination of Origin 39: A. Daniel Yarmey: Factors Affecting Lay Person's Identification of Speakers 40: Paul Foulkes and Peter French: Forensic Speaker Comparison