Anya Bernstein, ‘Legal Corpus Linguistics and the Half-Empirical Attitude’, 106 Cornell Law Review 1397 (2021). In ‘Legal Corpus Linguistics and the Half-Empirical Attitude’, Professor Anya Bernstein provides an illuminating and forceful critique of the claim that corpus linguistics – the study of patterns of language usage across a wide array of English-language sources – should be used to ’empirically’ derive the ordinary meaning of words used in legal texts. Corpus linguistics has been a hot topic in statutory and constitutional interpretation for the past several years, as a growing number of judges, scholars, litigants, and amicus curiae have pressed for its use in cases that turn on the meaning of a legal term or phrase … (more)
[Anita Krishnakumar, JOTWELL, 1 April]
First posted 2022-04-01 16:00:41
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