One recent and recurring topic in legal interpretation is the nature and status of rules of legal interpretation — such as the rule of lenity, the anti-surplusage canon, and much more. In an important ...

"But rejecting the clear language of the 14th Amendment to say that it bars Trump from running for the office, is to fall prey to the very criticism levelled at some justices: deciding a case based on ...

As the legal industry reckons with President Trump’s attack on DEI efforts, many law firms this year swapped out certain language on their websites and other materials to be less offensive to the ...

As we show in a draft article, corpus linguistic tools have been shown to do what LLM AIs cannot—produce transparent, replicable evidence of how a word or phrase is ordinarily used by the public. More ...

The text was updated where indicated on 11/22/2022. In September 2022, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) proposed legislation for a 15-week national abortion ban, with few exceptions. Similar to those ...

Janina Dill is the Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on international law in relation to war.

A law widening the official use of the Albanian language tested the alliance between the governing parties in 2019, while hopes that covert surveillance tapes might spark a breakthrough in an ...

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's neighbors have a right to criticize a new Ukrainian law banning schools from teaching in minority languages beyond primary school level, a leading European rights watchdog ...