Legal Linguistics of Judicial Educational Activities

Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics (CAL2)

We introduce Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics (CAL2) as a semiautomated method to “make sense” of legal discourse by systematically analyzing large collections of legal texts. Such digital corpora have been increasingly used in computational linguistics in recent years, as part of a quantitative research strategy designed to complement (rather than supplant) the more qualitative methods used...

Legal Personality—Legislative or Judicial Prerogative

Causes of Judicial and Legal Criminal Policy Disagreement in Drug-Related Offenses from the Legal-Ethical Approach

Background: The legislative review of the criminal record on the crime of repetition and the severity of the punishment for repeated offenders indicates that the legislator firstly used various laws to include repetition of crime, and in some cases such as drug offenses and for criminal reasons. It has taken into account a certain degree of exacerbation that is markedly different from what is s...

Procedural and Legal Motivations to Correct for Perceived Judicial Biases

The question of whether procedural or legal concerns per se can motivate corrections of jurors’ judgments when in conflict with accuracy concerns was examined. Mock jury members were exposed to diagnostic incriminating evidence that was obtained in either serious or mild violation of due process and that was ruled as admissible or inadmissible. When the evidence was obtained in serious violatio...

Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics (CAL2): An interdisciplinary approach

In law as well as in linguistics researchers work with texts. In recent years both disciplines are turning away from the introspective approach to a more empirical, evidence-based practice. Digital sources and programmes for statistical analyses of mass data have become increasingly available and offer new opportunities for linguistic research. In law and legal linguistics a growing number of r...