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Contact: byulawcorpus@law.byu.edu
Event Date: Coming Fall 2023
Location: Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Organization: Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University Law School will host the 8th Annual Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference in Provo, UT in the Fall of 2023.
Registration will be coming soon for the 8th Annual Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School in Provo, Utah.
Event Date: Fall 2023
Location: Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Organization: Brigham Young University
BYU Law’s Law & Corpus Linguistics was initially inspired by Stephen C. Mouritsen’s BYU Law Review Note, The Dictionary Is Not a Fortress: Definitional Fallacies and a Corpus-Based Approach to Plain Meaning, (2010). As various scholars began to apply corpus linguistic to legal questions, BYU’s Linguistics Professor Mark Davies’ well known Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) proved invaluable.
Following the development of formal Law & Corpus Linguistics course at the Law School in the Fall of 2013, the BYU Law Library started providing limited support for students in the class and faculty applying corpus linguistics to their scholarship such as Gordon Smith.
James Philips, a visiting assistant professor in Winter of 2015 , envisioned the creation of a simplified research platform and the creation of a Corpus of Founding Era American English (COFEA). Initial texts were gathered throughout 2015 and 2016 and in the Fall of 2016 the initial design of the Law & Corpus Linguistics Platform commenced.
