scholarly journals SEMANTICS AND LEGAL INTERPRETATION: AN APPROACH FROM A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE VALUE OF EMBRYONIC LIFE UNDER THE ARGENTINE AND U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL CASE LAW

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
María del Pilar Zambrano ◽  
Estela B. Sacristán
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Legal Interpretation ◽  
Embryonic Life

The paper analyzes the issue of legal interpretation of the Constitution in the light of a comparative approach between the case law of Argentina and the United States about the value attributed to embryonic life.

scholarly journals Introduction

1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (01) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
David W. Brokensha
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Closing Date ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
The Comparative Study

Previous listings of African Studies offered at American universities have appeared each year in the Bulletin, the last one being in March 1964. The Editors thank all those who kindly supplied the information on which this summary is based, and they welcome any suggestions for improving the usefulness of this annual presentation or of extending the coverage. Later numbers of the Bulletin will include summaries of African Studies in Canada, Africa, Western Europe, the USSR, and Asia. The summary divides institutions into two main classes. First, there are those with a formally constituted Program, Center, or Committee, where African Studies has some institutionalized existence. Second, there is a group of universities which, while having no formal African Studies Program, nevertheless offer, through their regular departments, courses dealing with Africa. The latter list does not pretend to be exhaustive; there are many other institutions which might have been included, but we have no information on them at the present time. Students who are deciding to which school they should apply might bear in mind such factors as caliber of faculty, availability of fellowships (though the closing date for most applications for 1965/66 is already past), library facilities, other institutions in the vicinity, and research opportunities. Most scholars now agree that the area studies approach cannot exist without the more theoretical comparative approach, so that the presence of certain other scholars becomes very significant: in political science, for example, it would be advantageous to have available faculty who specialize in the comparative study of processes of modernization, or of revolutions, as well as those who concentrate on Africa as an area. Therefore, this guide merely outlines some of the main features of African Study Programs in the United States.

The Use of Corpus Linguistics in Legal Interpretation

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 473-491
Author(s):  
Neal Goldfarb
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Legal Interpretation ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ordinary Meaning

Over the past decade, the idea of using corpus linguistics in legal interpretation has attracted interest on the part of judges, lawyers, and legal academics in the United States. This review provides an introduction to this nascent movement, which is generally referred to as Law and Corpus Linguistics (LCL). After briefly summarizing LCL's origin and development, I situate LCL within legal interpretation by discussing the legal concept of ordinary meaning, which establishes the framework within which LCL operates. Next, I situate LCL within linguistics by identifying the subfields that are most relevant to LCL. I then offer a linguistic justification for an idea that is implicit in the case law and that provides important support for using corpus analysis in legal interpretation: that data about patterns of usage provide evidence of how words and other expressions are ordinarily understood. I go on to discuss linguistic issues that arise from the use of corpus linguistics in disputes that involve lexical ambiguity and categorization. Finally, I point out some challenges that the growth of LCL will present for both legal professionals and linguists.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

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