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Convenors:
Prof. Peter L. Patrick
Language & Linguistics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
Essex, UK
+44 (0) 1206 872088

Prof. Monika Schmid Language & Linguistics University of Essex & University of Groningen
+44 (0) 1206 872089  

Dr. Karin Zwaan
Centre for Migration Law Radboud University Nijmegen P.O. Box 9049
6500KK Nijmegen
the Netherlands
+31 24 361.2934

E-mail: larg@essex.ac.uk

Lawrence M. Solan

Larry Solan photoExpertise:

  • Language and the Law - Evidence - Linguistic Theory & Legal Argumentation

Qualifications:

  • BA (Brandeis)

  • PhD Linguistics (Massachusetts)

  • JD (Harvard)

Lawrence Solan is Don Forchelli Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition, at Brooklyn Law School. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts and a JD from Harvard Law School. He has served as president of the International Association of Forensic Linguistics, is on the board of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, and the editorial board of the International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law.

Prof. Solan's writings address such issues as statutory and contractual interpretation, the attribution of responsibility and blame, and the role of the expert in the courts. His books include The Language of Judges, Speaking of Crime (with Peter Tiersma), and The Language of Statutes: Laws and their Interpretation, all published by the University of Chicago Press. He and Peter Tiersma are currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law.

Solan has been a visiting professor at the Yale Law School, and in the Psychology Department and Linguistics Program at Princeton University. Prior to joining the Brooklyn Law School faculty in 1996, he was a partner at a New York law firm.

Larry Solan's webpage

Email:

larry.solan        Please add:    @brooklaw.edu

Related Publications:

Fc 2011. (with Peter Tiersma, eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2010. The Language of Statutes: Laws and their Interpretation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2010. The expert linguist meets the adversarial system. In Malcolm Coulthard & Alison Johnson (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics, 395-407. NY: Routledge.

2005. (with Peter Tiersma.) Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2003. (with Peter Tiersma.) Hearing voices: Speaker identification in court. 54 Hastings Law Journal 373.

1993. The Language of Judges. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.