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Workshop on Law & Linguistics
College of Law & Department of Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language
Georgia State University
All events at the College of Law, 85 Park Place NE, Atlanta 30303
Workshop Papers to be published in the Georgia State Law Review (January 2020)
Download papers by clicking title
Interested participants can register for individual paper sessions if they cannot attend the entire workshop.
Participants are encouraged to read the paper in advance for any session they attend.
Remote observation and participation will be enabled via webex
Video of each session can be viewed by clicking on " Watch video" - audio quality varies

Friday, October 18

9:00 am – 9:45 am  Demonstration/hands-on: linguistic analysis tools (video not available)
Clark Cunningham: COHA and COFEA
-- Inviolate: left context right context
Haoshan Ren, Applied Linguistics (PhD student), Georgia State University: Ant Conc Demonstration (ppt) (pdf)
-- download zip file for demonstration data set

9:55 am – 10:05 am  Welcome.  Classroom 345

10:05 am – 10:50 am Watch video
1.  Best practices for using corpus linguistics to interpret legal texts (no paper) & Case Study: original meaning of “emolument” in the US Constitution
-- Presentation (ppt) (pdf)
Professor Clark D. Cunningham, Georgia State University College of Law Professor
Jesse Egbert, Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University
Comment: Professor Eric Friginal, Applied Linguistics, Georgia State University
-- Friginal Presentation (ppt)(pdf)

10:50 am – 11:05 am Coffee Break 

11:05 am – 11:50 am  Watch video (only last 20 minutes captured)
2.  Revisiting a classic problem in statutory interpretation: Is a minister a laborer?
-- Presentation (ppt) (pdf)
Professor Tammy Gales, Comparative Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, Hofstra University
Professor Lawrence Solan, Director - Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition, Brooklyn Law School
Comment: Professor Timothy Lytton, Georgia State University College of Law

11:50 am – 12:35 pmWatch video
3.  “Questions Involving National Peace and Harmony” or “Injured Plaintiff Litigation”? The Original Meaning of “Cases” in Article III of the Constitution” **
-- Presentation (ppt) (pdf)
Professor Noor Abbady, English as a Second Language, Savannah College of Art & Design
Heather Kuhn, Data Privacy and Security Consultant, Cox Communications*
Haoshan Ren, Applied Linguistics (PhD student), Georgia State University
Professor Ute Römer, Applied Linguistics, Georgia State University
Margaret Wood, Applied Linguistics (PhD student), Northern Arizona University
Comment: Professor Susan Navarro Smelcer, Georgia State University College of Law
-- Smelcer Presentation (also incorporated into main presentation)

12:40 pm – 1:20 pm Lunch Break 

1:30 pm – 2:15 pm Watch video
4.  Effective But Limited: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of the Original Public Meaning of Executive Power**
-- Presentation (ppt) (pdf)
Eleanor Miller, Attorney, United States Department of the Treasury*
Heather Obelgoner, Law Clerk, Justice Robert Benham (Supreme Court of Georgia)*
Comment: Edward Finegan, Professor of Linguistics and Law, Emeritus, University of Southern California
-- Finegan Presentation
Comment: Professor Julian Davis Mortenson, University of Michigan Law School
-- Mortenson Presentation (ppt) (pdf)

2:15 pm – 3:00pm Watch video
5. “We the Citizens?”: A Corpus Linguistic Inquiry into the Use of “People” and “Citizens” in the Founding Era** 
-- Presentation (ppt) (pdf)
Professor Diana Coetzee, Professor of English, ON Language at Brenau University
Professor Ute Römer, Applied Linguistics, Georgia State University
Abigail Stout (J.D. '19)
Comment: Professor William A. Edmundson, Georgia State University College of Law
3:00 pm – 3:10 pm  Concluding Remarks

*Employment affiliation for information only   Authors listed in alphabetical order
** These papers originated in research conducted while one or more of the authors were graduate students at Georgia State University.

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