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9 “Words, Words, Words”—But What’s in a Legal Text? Dieter Stein One of the many things the discipline of law and language owes to Peter Tiersma is the description of a process that seems central for our legal culture: the transfer of legal authority to written language, a process he . . . Read more
8 The Language of Lawyers and the Language of Plumbers Edward Finegan The terms “legal language” and “the language of the law” have served as titles for books by Peter Tiersma and David Mellinkoff, respectively. In scholarly arenas they are the terms favored over “legalese,” a term with a disparaging . . . Read more