Ninth Annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference Schedule

Friday, October 25, 2024

8:00 AM
Breakfast
8:30 AM
Welcome

205 JRCB
Dean David Moore

8:45 AM
Opening Keynote

Lawrence Solum
(Introduction: Tom Lee)

Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics

9:45 AM
Session on Ethics & Judicial Reliance on CL

(Moderator: Tom Lee)

  1. Brett Hashimoto & Derek Haderlie, Ethical Considerations in Corpus-based Legal Interpretation Analysis
  2. Judge Marvin Quattlebaum, Corpus Linguistics as Legislative Fact
10:45 AM
Break
11:00 AM
Panel on AI and CL

(Moderator: Brett Hashimoto)

  1. Richard McAdams, Asking GPT for the Ordinary Meaning of Statutory Terms
  2. Thomas R. Lee & Jesse Egbert, Artificial Meaning?
12:00 PM
Lunch/Keynote

Edward Finegan
(Introduction: Jesse Egbert)

Corpus Linguistics in Trademark and Defamation Cases

1:30 PM
Breakout Sessions

Session A
205 JRCB
(Moderator: James Heilpern)

  1. Adrian Hemler, Corpus Methods as a New Approach to Comparative Law Using the Example of a Corpus-Based Comparison of German and English Rules of Civil Procedure
  2. Susan Tanner, Integrating Generative AI and Intertextual Theory into Legal Interpretation to Enhance Corpus Linguistics Approaches
  3. Gordon Smith, Is Fiduciary Loyalty Really Loyalty?
  4. Jackson Cho, Thinking Beyond the Bread: Corpus Linguistics and the Ordinary Meaning of Sandwich
  5. Jonathan Mix, Corpus Linguistics, The Major Questions Doctrine, and Statutory Mouseholes

Session B
206 JRCB
(Moderator: James Phillips)

  1. Lorianne Updike Toler, Becoming Dualism
  2. Andrew Lake, “Engaged In”; A Guide For Legislators On How To Give Part Of Section Three Its Original Meaning
  3. Jacob Hibbard, The Sweep of “Insurrection”: A Corpus Analysis of the Original Meaning of “Insurrection” under Section Three
  4. Wesley White, Corpus Linguistics and the Original Meaning of the Sixth Amendment
  5. Jacob Mortensen, Otherwise: limited or limitless?
3:10 PM
Break
3:20 PM
Session on Jury Instructions

205 JRCB
(Moderators: Jesse Egbert; Scott Jarvis)

  1. Scott Jarvis et al., Improving the Comprehensibility of Jury Instructions through Empirical Linguistic Methods
  2. AJ Holmberg & Iia Vlasova, Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda: Issues of Modal Verb Ambiguity in Jury Instructions
  3. Yağmur Demir & Francesca Grixoni, Reading or Listening Between the Lines: Enhancing Jury Instruction Comprehension for a Fair Legal System
4:50 PM
Closing

Tom Lee