Lawrence Solan

Legal Linguistics in the Us: Looking Back, Looking Ahead, Brooklyn Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 609 (2019)

Lies, Deceit, and Bullshit in Law, 56 Duquesne Law Review 73 (2018)

Corpus Linguistics as a Tool in Legal Interpretation, 2017 Brigham Young University Law Review 1311 (2018) (with Tammy Gales)

The Interpretation of Legal Language, 4 Annual Review of Linguistics 337 (2018)

Finding Ordinary Meaning in Law: The Judge, the Dictionary or the Corpus?, 1 International Journal of Legal Discourse 253 (2016) (with Tammy Gales)

Die Auslegung mehrsprachigen Rechts: Einige Vor—und Nachteile [The Interpretation of Multilingual Laws – Some Costs and Benefits], 21 GreifRecht 38 (2016)

We Are All Translators Now: Constitutional Analysis as Translation, 28 Comparative Linguistics 7 (2016)

Precedent in Statutory Interpretation, 94 North Carolina Law Review 1165 (2016)

Can Corpus Linguistics Help Make Originalism Scientific?, 126 Yale Law Journal Forum 57 (2016)

Identifying where people come from by how they speak: a methodological gap worth bridging. A rejoinder to Cambier-Langeveld, 21 International Journal of Speech Language and the Law 383 (2014)

Intuition versus Algorithm: The Case of Forensic Authorship Attribution, 21 Journal of Law & Policy 283 (2013)

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

Legislative Style and Judicial Discretion: The Case of Guardianship Law, 35 International Journal of Law & Psychiatry 464 (2012)

Lawyers as Insincere (But Truthful) Actors, 36 Journal of the Legal Profession 487 (2012)​

Statutory Interpretation, Morality, and the Text, 76 Brooklyn Law Review 1033 (2011)

Justifying Board Diversity, 89 North Carolina Law Review 901 (2011) (with J. Fanto and J. Darley)

Doing Wrong without Creating Harm, 7 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 30 (2010) (with others)

Response: Opportunistic Textualism, 158 University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra 224 (2010)

Blame, Praise and the Structure of Legal Rules, 75 Brooklyn Law Review 517 (2010)

The Interpretation of Multilingual Statutes by the European Court of Justice, 34 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 277 (2009)

False Consensus Bias in Contract Interpretation, 108 Columbia Law Review 1268 (2008) (with T. Rosenblatt and D. Osherson)

The Uneasy Relationship Between Science and Law: An Essay and Introduction , 73 Brooklyn Law Review 847 (2008) (with M. Berger)

Tax Shelters and the Code: Navigating Between Text and Intent, 26 Virginia Tax Review 879 (2007) (with S. Dean)

Contract as Agreement, 83 Notre Dame Law Review 353 (2007)

Where Does Blaming Come From?, 71 Brooklyn Law Review 939 (2006)

Private Langauge, Public Laws: The Central Role of Legislative Intent in Statutory Interpretation, 93 Georgetown Law Journal 427 (2005)

The New Textualists’ New Text, 38 Loyola Law Review 2027 (2005)

Author Identification in American Courts, 25 Applied Linguistics 448 (2004) (with P. Tiersma

Cops and Robbers: Selective Literalism in American Criminal Law, 38 Law & Society Review 229 (2004) (with P. Tiersma)

Pernicious Ambiguity in Contracts and Statutes, 79 Chicago-Kent Law Review 859 (2004)

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)

Cognitive Foundations of the Impulse to Blame, 68 Brooklyn Law Review 1003 (2003)

Hearing Voices: Speaker Identification in Court, 54 Hastings Law Journal 373 (2003) (with P. Tiersma)

Jurors as Statutory Interpreters, 78 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1281 (2003)

Statutory Inflation and Institutional Choice, 4 William & Mary Law Review 2209 (2003)

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)

Causation, Contribution and Legal Liability: An Empirical Study, 64 Law and Contemporary Problems 265 (2001) (with J. Darley)

Convicting the Innocent Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Some Lessons About Jury Instructions from the Sheppard Case, 49 Cleveland State Law Review (2001)

The Written Contract as Safe Harbor for Dishonest Conduct, 77 Chicago-Kent Law Review 87 (2001)

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))

Let Us Never Forget Our Humanity: Reflections on Justice Stewart Pollock, 31 Rutgers Law Journal lxvii (2000)

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)

Refocusing the Burden of Proof in Criminal Cases: Some Doubt About Reasonable Doubt, 78 Texas Law Review 1105 (1999)

Law, Language and Lenity, 40 William & Mary Law Review 57 (1998)

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)

Judicial Decisions and Linguistic Analysis: Is There a Linguist in the Court?, 73 Washington University Law Quarterly 1069 (1995)

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)

Speaking of Language and Law: Conversations on the Work of Peter Tiersma, Oxford University Press, 2015 (with Janet Ainsworth & Roger Shuy)

Oxford Handbook of Language and Law (co-editor with P. Tiersma, Oxford University Press, 2012)

The Language of Statutes: Laws and their Interpretation, (University of Chicago Press, 2010)

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

The Language of Judges (University of Chicago Press, 1993)

Pronominal Reference: Child Language and the Theory of Grammar (Springer, 1983)

Linguistic Evidentials and the Law of Hearsay, in Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law, (Oxford University Press, 2020)

The Interpretation of Laws, in Handbook of Communication in the Legal Sphere (Jacqueline Visconti, ed., de Gruyter Mouton 2018)

Legal Indeterminacy in the Spoken Word, in Meaning and Power in the Language of Law (Janny Leung and Alan Durant, eds., 2018)

One Ambiguity, Three Legal Approaches, in The Pragmatic Turn in Law: Inference and Interpretation in Legal Discourse (Janet Giltrow & Dieter Stein eds., Walter de Gruyter 2017).

Linguistic Knowledge and Legal Interpretation: What Goes Right, What Goes Wrong, in The Nature of Legal Interpretation (Brian Slocum ed., University of Chicago Press 2017).

Why It Is So Difficult to Resolve Vagueness in Legal Interpretation, in Vagueness and Law: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives (Geert Keil & Ralf Poscher eds., Oxford University Press 2016).

Transparent and Opaque Consent in Contract Formation, in Coercion and Consent in the Legal Process: Linguistic and Discursive Perspectives, by Susan Ehrlich, Diana Eades and Janet Ainsworth, eds., (Oxford University Press 2016)

Expert Witness Communication, in in Investigative And Legal Contexts: Integrated Approaches From Forensic Psychology, Linguistics, and Law Enforcement, by Gavin Oxburgh, Trond Myklebust, Tim Grant and Rebecca R. Milne, eds., (Wiley 2015) (with Lorna Fadden)

Linguistic Issues in Statutory Interpretration, in The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law (co-editor with P. Tiersma, Oxford University Press, 2012)

The Language of Crime (with P. Tiersma), in The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law (co-editor with P. Tiersma, Oxford University Press, 2012)

The Expert Linguist Meets the Adversarial System, in Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics (M. Coulthard and A. Johnson, eds., Routledge, 2010)

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)

Statutory Interpretation in the EU: The Augustinian Approach, in Translation Issues in Language and Law (F. Olsen and others, eds., Palgrave Macmillan ​2009)

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)

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)

The Clinton Scandal: Some Lessons from Linguistics, in Language in the Legal Process (J. Cotterill ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)

Ordinary Meaning in Legal Interpretation (reprinted in Ordinary and Legal Language (B. Pozzo ed. Giuffrè, 2005)

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)

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)

Statutes and Case Law, in American Governance (Stephen Schechter ed., Macmillan Reference USA, 2016) (encyclopedia entry)

Tribute, A Festschrift in Honor of Margaret A. Berger, 75 Brooklyn Law Review 1063 (2010)

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)

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)

Introduction, The The Jury in the Twenty-First Century: An Interdisciplinary Conference, 66 Brooklyn Law Review 971 (2001) (with S. Herman)

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)

Lecturer, "Language and Justice," The Languages Festival of Science 2014, Rome, Italy (Jan. 26, 2014)