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| 9:00-12:00 | Judge’s Workshop |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00-5:00 | Linguist workshop |
| 8:30-9:00 | Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:10 | Welcome |
| 9:10-9:55 | Panel 1 Corpus Linguists as Expert Witnesses |
| Moderated by Jesse Egbert | |
| Panelists: Judge Amul Thapar, Stephen Mouritsen, Tammy Gales, and Ed Finegan | |
| 10:00-12:00 | Session 1
Environmental Issues in the United States Congress: A corpus analysis of trends over time by Kyra Nelson Judging Readability: A Study of Judicial Opinions from the Apex Courts of the United States, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United Kingdom by Mike Madden The Ordinary Lawyer Corpus: The Federalist Papers Approach by Samantha Thorne Situational and Linguistic Variation in State Statutory Law by Margaret Wood |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch and Keynote
Keynote by Judge Amul Thapar of the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals |
| 1:30-2:15 | Panel 2 Best Practices for Corpus Linguistics in Amicus Briefs
Moderated by James Heilpern |
| 2:25-4:25 | Session 2
A Corpus Linguistics Quest for the Original Meaning of Public Use in the Fifth Amendment by Brittany C. Langley and Haoshan (Sally) Ren The Art of Persuasion: A Linguistic Analysis of “Persuade” and its Applicability Under 18 U.S.C. §2422(b) by Ray-Kelle Preston A Corpus Analysis of “Under Color” As Used in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Its Implications for the Use of Corpus Linguistics by Phil Haunschild What does it mean to “search a cell phone”? by Clark D. Cunningham, Jesse Egbert, Megan Wells, Amanda Black & Maria Kostromitina |
| 4:30-5:15 | Panel 3 The Domain of Law and Corpus Linguistics: Factors Affecting the Utility of Corpus Tools in Legal Interpretation
Discussion led by Justice Thomas Lee |
| 5:15-5:30 | Closing |
| 5:30 | Dinner |
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