Lawrence Solan

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Articles

• ​When Does Knowledge Become Intent?  Perceiving the Minds of Wrongdoers (with Pam Mueller and John Darley), 9 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 859 (2012).

   

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• Lawyers as Insincere (But Truthful) Actors, 36 Journal of the Legal Profession 487 (2012)​
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• Statutory Interpretation, Morality, and the Text, 76 Brooklyn Law Review 1033 (2011)
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• Justifying Board Diversity, 89 North Carolina Law Review 901 (2011) (with J. Fanto and J. Darley)
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• Doing Wrong without Creating Harm, 7 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 30 (2010) (with others)
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• Response: Opportunistic Textualism, 158 University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra 224 (2010)
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• Blame, Praise and the Structure of Legal Rules, 75 Brooklyn Law Review 517 (2010)
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• The Interpretation of Multilingual Statutes by the European Court of Justice, 34 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 277 (2009)
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• False Consensus Bias in Contract Interpretation, 108 Columbia Law Review 1268 (2008) (with T. Rosenblatt and D. Osherson)
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• The Uneasy Relationship Between Science and Law: An Essay and Introduction , 73 Brooklyn Law Review 847 (2008) (with M. Berger)
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• Tax Shelters and the Code: Navigating Between Text and Intent, 26 Virginia Tax Review 879 (2007) (with S. Dean)
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• Contract as Agreement, 83 Notre Dame Law Review 353 (2007)
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• Where Does Blaming Come From?, 71 Brooklyn Law Review 939 (2006)
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• Private Langauge, Public Laws: The Central Role of Legislative Intent in Statutory Interpretation, 93 Georgetown Law Journal 427 (2005)
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• The New Textualists’ New Text, 38 Loyola Law Review 2027 (2005)
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• Author Identification in American Courts, 25 Applied Linguistics 448 (2004) (with P. Tiersma
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• Cops and Robbers: Selective Literalism in American Criminal Law, 38 Law & Society Review 229 (2004) (with P. Tiersma)
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• Pernicious Ambiguity in Contracts and Statutes, 79 Chicago-Kent Law Review 859 (2004)
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• Falling on Deaf Ears: Scientists Say that Earwitnesses are Unreliable. Why Aren’t the Courts Listening?, 2 Legal Affairs 71 (Nov./Dec. 2003) (with P. Tiersma)
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• Cognitive Foundations of the Impulse to Blame, 68 Brooklyn Law Review 1003 (2003)
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• Hearing Voices: Speaker Identification in Court, 54 Hastings Law Journal 373 (2003) (with P. Tiersma)
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• Jurors as Statutory Interpreters, 78 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1281 (2003)
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• Statutory Inflation and Institutional Choice, 4 William & Mary Law Review 2209 (2003)
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• Should Criminal Statutes Be Interpreted Dynamically?, 1 (3) Issues in Legal Scholarship 1027 (2002)
• The Linguist on the Witness Stand: Forensic Linguistics in American Courts, 78 Language 221 (2002) (with P. Tiersma)
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• Causation, Contribution and Legal Liability: An Empirical Study, 64 Law and Contemporary Problems 265 (2001) (with J. Darley)
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• Convicting the Innocent Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Some Lessons About Jury Instructions from the Sheppard Case, 49 Cleveland State Law Review (2001)
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• The Written Contract as Safe Harbor for Dishonest Conduct, 77 Chicago-Kent Law Review 87 (2001)
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• Why Laws Work Pretty Well, But Not Great: Words and Rules in Legal Interpretation, 26 Law & Social Inquiry 243 (2001) (reviewing Steven Pinker, Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (1999))
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• Let Us Never Forget Our Humanity: Reflections on Justice Stewart Pollock, 31 Rutgers Law Journal lxvii (2000)
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• Un Effet du Principe C chez l'Enfant Francophone, 45 Canadian Journal of Linguistics 49 (2000) (with H. Goodluck)
• Can the Legal System Use Experts on Meaning?, 66 Tennessee Law Review 1167 (1999) (reprinted in 49 Defense Law Journal 775 (2000)
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• Refocusing the Burden of Proof in Criminal Cases: Some Doubt About Reasonable Doubt, 78 Texas Law Review 1105 (1999)
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• Law, Language and Lenity, 40 William & Mary Law Review 57 (1998)
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• Linguistic Experts as Semantic Tour Guides, 5 Forensic Linguistics 87 (1998)
• Book Review" 4 Forensic Linguistics 305 (1997) (reviewing Bernard S. Jackson, Making Sense in Law (1995))
• Learning Our Limits: The Decline of Textualism in Statutory Cases, 1997 Wisconsin Law Review 235 (1997)
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• Judicial Decisions and Linguistic Analysis: Is There a Linguist in the Court?, 73 Washington University Law Quarterly 1069 (1995)
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• When All is Lost: Why it is Difficult for Judges to Write About Concepts, 1 Graven Images 154 (1994)
• When Judges Use the Dictionary, 68 American Speech 50 (1993)
• Focus and Levels of Representation, 15 Linguistic Inquiry 174 (1984)
• Contrastive Stress and Children’s Interpretation of Pronouns, 23 Journal of Speech & Hearing Research 688 (1980)
• A Reevaluation of the Basic Operations Hypothesis, 7 Cognition 85 (1979) (with H. Goodluck)

Books

• Oxford Handbook of Language and Law (co-editor with P. Tiersma, Oxford University Press, 2012)
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• The Language of Statutes: Laws and their Interpretation, (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
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• Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice, (University of Chicago Press, 2005) (with P. Tiersma)
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• The Language of Judges (University of Chicago Press, 1993)
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• Pronominal Reference: Child Language and the Theory of Grammar (Springer, 1983)
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Contributions to Books

• Linguistic Issues in Statutory Interpretration, in The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law (co-editor with P. Tiersma, Oxford University Press, 2012)
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• The Language of Crime (with P. Tiersma), in The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law (co-editor with P. Tiersma, Oxford University Press, 2012)
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• The Expert Linguist Meets the Adversarial System, in Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics (M. Coulthard and A. Johnson, eds., Routledge, 2010)
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• Talking Like a Person, Thinking Like a Lawyer (and vice versa), in Verbal/Visual Narrative Texts in Higher Education (M. Solly and others, ​Peter Lang Publishing, 2008)
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• Statutory Interpretation in the EU: The Augustinian Approach, in Translation Issues in Language and Law (F. Olsen and others, eds., Palgrave Macmillan ​2009)
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• La Lingúística Forense en los Tribunales Norteamericanos, in Lingüística Forense, Lengua y Derecho: Conceptos, Metodos y Aplicaciones (M. Turell ed., Edicions A Petició, 2006) (with P.M. Tiersma)
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• Language and Law: Definitions in Law, in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Elsevier Science 2d ed., 2005)
• Vagueness and Ambiguity in Legal Interpretation, inVagueness in Normative Texts (V.K. Bhatia and others eds., ​​Peter Lang Publishing, 2005)
• Finding Ordinary Meaning in the Dictionary, in Language and the Law: Proceedings of a Conference (M. Robinson ed., William S. Hein & Co., 2003)
• Ordinary Meaning in Legal Interpretation (reprinted in Ordinary and Legal Language (B. Pozzo ed. Giuffrè, 2005)
• The Clinton Scandal: Some Lessons from Linguistics, in Language in the Legal Process (J. Cotterill ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
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• Perjury and Impeachment: The Rule of Law or the Rule of Lawyers? in Aftermath: The Clinton Impeachment and the Presidency in the Age of Political Spectacle (Kaplan & B. Moran eds., NYU Press, 2001)
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• Chomsky and Cardozo: Linguistics and the Law, in Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments  (C. P. Otero ed., Routledge, 1994)
• Does the Legal System Need Experts in English Syntax?, in The Language Scientist as Expert in the Legal Setting (W. Stewart & R. Reiber eds., New York Academy of Sciences, 1990)
• Linguistic Principles as the Rule of Law, in Langue et droit -- Language and Law (P. Pupier & J. Woehrling, eds., Wilson et Lafleur, 1989)
• Parameter Setting and the Development of Pronouns and Reflexives, in Parameter Setting (T. Roeper & E. Williams eds., D. Reidel Publishing, 1987)
• A Comparison of Null and Pronoun Anaphora in First Language Acquisition Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora: Defining the Constraints, in Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora: Defining the Constraints (B. Lust ed., Springer, 1986) (with others)
• Language Acquisition Data and the Theory of Markedness: Evidence from Spanish, in Markedness (F. Eckman and others eds., Plenum Press, 1986)
• A Metrical Analysis of Spanish Stress in Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (W. Cressey & D. Napoli eds., 1981) (reprinted as Analisis Métrico del Acento Español, in Panorama de la Fonología Español Actual (Juana Gil, ed., 2000))
• Fixing Parameters: Language Acquisition and Language Variation in Markedness and Learnability (J. Pustejovsky & V. Burke eds., University of Massachusetts Press, 1981)
• The Acquisition of Structural Restrictions on Anaphora in Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory (S. Tavakolian ed., The MIT Press , 1981)
• The Acquisition of Tough Movement in Studies in First and Second Language Acquisition (F. Eckman & A. Hastings eds., Newbury House Publishers, 1979)
• Children’s Use of Syntactic Structure in Interpreting Relative Clauses in Papers in the Structure and Development of Child Language (H. Goodluck & L. Solan eds., University of Massachusetts, 1978) (with T. Roeper)

Other

• Tribute, A Festschrift in Honor of Margaret A. Berger, 75 Brooklyn Law Review 1063 (2010)
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• Review, Roger Shuy, Creating Language Crimes, 11 Theoretical Criminology 126 (2007)
• Responsibility and Blame: Psychological and Legal Perspectives - Introduction, 68 Brooklyn Law Review 925 (2003)
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• Forum: Forensic Science, No Consensus, 20 (2) Issues in Science and Technology 5 (2004) (with P. Tiersma)
• Cognitive Legal Studies: Categorization and Imagination in the Mind of Law - Introduction, 67 Brooklyn Law Review 941 (2002)
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• Introduction, The The Jury in the Twenty-First Century: An Interdisciplinary Conference, 66 Brooklyn Law Review 971 (2001) (with S. Herman)
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Popular Press

• Wrist Slaps are No Deterrent, National Law Journal (Sept. 22, 2003)
• Presidents and Scandals: Bush and Uranium, Clinton and Sex, Reagan and Iran-contra: What Do They Have in Common?, MSNBC News (2003)
• Commentary, Catch Phrase,  Philadelphia Inquirer (2003) (with P. Tiersma)
• Opinion: Pointing Fingers, MSNBC.com (2003)
• Opinion: Think It Through: a Constitutional Scholar Explains Why Congress Is Wise to Go Slow on Anti-Terror Laws That Would Erode Individual Rights, MSNBC.com
• A Cinderella Affidavit: Thriller and Biting Commentary on Legal System (reviewing Michael Frederickson, Cinderella Affidavit) New Jersey Law Journal (May 3, 1999) at 20
• Fault Lies Not Only in Starr But in Law, National Law Journal (1998)