10th Annual Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference

10th Annual Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference

Our 10th annual conference will be held on Friday, October 24, 2025, at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School in Provo, Utah.

The keynote address will be delivered by Abbe Gluck, the Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law at Yale Law School.

Proposals for papers or panels should be submitted by May 31, 2025. Submissions are welcomed on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

applications of corpus linguistics to constitutional, statutory, contract, patent, trademark, probate, administrative, and criminal law in any state or nation;

philosophical, normative, and pragmatic commentary on the use of corpus linguistics in the law;

triangulation between corpus linguistics and other empirical methods in legal interpretation;

corpus-based analysis of legal discourse or topics;

best practices in corpus design and corpus linguistic methods in legal settings.

Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 750 words and complete contact information for presenters. Please send proposals to byulawcorpus@law.byu.edu