Ninth Annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference Schedule
Friday, October 25, 2024
8:00 AM |
Breakfast
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8:30 AM |
Welcome
205 JRCB
Dean David Moore
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8:45 AM |
Opening Keynote
Lawrence Solum
(Introduction: Tom Lee)
Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics
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9:45 AM |
Session on Ethics & Judicial Reliance on CL
(Moderator: Tom Lee)
- Brett Hashimoto & Derek Haderlie, Ethical Considerations in Corpus-based Legal Interpretation Analysis
- Judge Marvin Quattlebaum, Corpus Linguistics as Legislative Fact
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10:45 AM |
Break
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11:00 AM |
Panel on AI and CL
(Moderator: Brett Hashimoto)
- Richard McAdams, Asking GPT for the Ordinary Meaning of Statutory Terms
- Thomas R. Lee & Jesse Egbert, Artificial Meaning?
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12:00 PM |
Lunch/Keynote
Edward Finegan
(Introduction: Jesse Egbert)
Corpus Linguistics in Trademark and Defamation Cases
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1:30 PM |
Breakout Sessions
Session A
205 JRCB
(Moderator: James Heilpern)
- 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
- Susan Tanner, Integrating Generative AI and Intertextual Theory into Legal Interpretation to Enhance Corpus Linguistics Approaches
- Gordon Smith, Is Fiduciary Loyalty Really Loyalty?
- Jackson Cho, Thinking Beyond the Bread: Corpus Linguistics and the Ordinary Meaning of Sandwich
- Jonathan Mix, Corpus Linguistics, The Major Questions Doctrine, and Statutory Mouseholes
Session B
206 JRCB
(Moderator: James Phillips)
- Lorianne Updike Toler, Becoming Dualism
- Andrew Lake, “Engaged In”; A Guide For Legislators On How To Give Part Of Section Three Its Original Meaning
- Jacob Hibbard, The Sweep of “Insurrection”: A Corpus Analysis of the Original Meaning of “Insurrection” under Section Three
- Wesley White, Corpus Linguistics and the Original Meaning of the Sixth Amendment
- Jacob Mortensen, Otherwise: limited or limitless?
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3:10 PM |
Break
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3:20 PM |
Session on Jury Instructions
205 JRCB
(Moderators: Jesse Egbert; Scott Jarvis)
- Scott Jarvis et al., Improving the Comprehensibility of Jury Instructions through Empirical Linguistic Methods
- AJ Holmberg & Iia Vlasova, Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda: Issues of Modal Verb Ambiguity in Jury Instructions
- Yağmur Demir & Francesca Grixoni, Reading or Listening Between the Lines: Enhancing Jury Instruction Comprehension for a Fair Legal System
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4:50 PM |
Closing
Tom Lee
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