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| 8:00-8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:00 | Welcome 205 JRCB | LCL Ten Years On Dean David Moore |
| 9:00-10:15 | Session 1 on Constitutional Interpretation Moderator: Brett Hashimoto |
| 1. The Honorable Judge John K. Bush (6th Cir.), How Large a Database and How to Weigh Sources for Constitutional History and Tradition Research? | |
| 2. James A. Heilpern, “Elected Officers” | |
| 3. Christian Edmonds & James Phillips, The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment | |
| 10:15-10:30 | Break | 10:30-11:45 | Session 2 on Corpus Linguistics Methods Moderator: James Phillips |
| 1. David Armond, Charles Draper, BYU Law’s corpus linguistics interface | |
| 2. MacRorie Hewitt, LLMs and empirical textualism | |
| 3. Jesse Egbert & Thomas R. Lee, Evaluating AI-assisted corpus linguistics for ordinary meaning | |
| 11:45-1:00 | Lunch and Keynote Address – Abbe Gluck (Introduction: Thomas R. Lee Ordinary Meaning and the Supreme Court: How to determine it and how faithful the Court is to it. |
| 1:00-2:15 | Session 3 on Jury Instructions Moderator: Clark Cunningham |
| 1. Iia Vlasova & Alexander Holmberg, Using corpus-created materials to understand user perceptions of intended meaning in potentially ambiguous instructions | |
| 2. Nathaniel May & Brett Hashimoto, The effect of plain language implementation on grammatical complexity in a corpus of jury instructions | 3. Scott Jarvis, Jesse Egbert, Mary Akbary, Francesca Grixoni, Kelly Kendro, Clark Cunningham & Bill Eggington, Testing the Comprehensibility of Jury Instructions through Empirical Linguistic Methods |
| 2:15-3:30 | Session 4 on Legal Registers Moderator: Jesse Egbert |
| 1. Iia Vlasova & Kyra Larsen, Grammatical complexity across legal registers: Similar or different | |
| 2. Taft Julian & Brett Hashimoto, Leveling the “shell” game: A description of the use of shell nouns in American legal contracts | |
| 3. Earl Brown & James Robinson, Comparing lexical complexity in Spanish-language European Union regulations to three other registers of Spanish | |
| 3:30-3:45 | Break |
| 3:45-4:35 | Session 5 on Applications to Recent Cases Moderator: James Heilpern |
| 1. Andrea Banicki, Persuading the Court: Amicus Briefs, Abortion, and Corpus-Based Metaphor Analysis | |
| 2. Francesca Grixoni, Alexander Holmberg, Seamus Howard & Yongzhi (Vito) Miao, “Injury” under RICO: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Statutory Meaning in Medical Marijuana, Inc. v. Horn |