Tiersma, Peter (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School)

Speaking of Language and Law: Conversations on the Work of Peter Tiersma - Oxford Studies in Language and Law Tiersma, Peter (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School)

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Lawrence Solan is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Janet Ainsworth is Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. Roger W. Shuy is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Table of Contents: AcknowledgementsContributorsPreface Part ILegal Language and Its History 1. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from A History of the Languages of Law (in The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law)2. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Legal Language3. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Parchment, Paper, Pixels 4. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Some Myths about Legal Language 5. Frederick Schauer, On the Relationship Between Legal and Ordinary Language6. Ronald R. Butters, Legal Language and its History: Quo Imus? Qua Imus?7. Frank S. Ravitch, Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Age of Pixels: Hans-Georg Gadamer, Peter Tiersma, and Dasein in the Age of the Internet8. Edward Finegan, The Language of Lawyers and the Language of Plumbers 9. Dieter Stein, Words, Words, Words - But What's in a Text? Part IIThe Language of Contracts and Wills 10. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Parchment, Paper, Pixels 11. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Reassessing Unilateral Contracts 12. Brian H. Bix, Philosophy of Language, Unilateral Contracts, and the Law13. Sidney W. DeLong, How to do Legal Things with Words: The Contracts Scholarship of Peter Tiersma14. Peter Goodrich, Tiersma Contra Mundum In Defence Of Promises15. Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, Formalism, Speech Acts, and The Realities Of Contract Formation Part IIISpeech and Action The Meanings of Silence in Law16. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpts from The Language of Silence 17. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Nonverbal Communication and the Freedom of Speech18. Elizabeth Mertz, Law's Metalinguistics: Silence, Speech, and Action19. Malcolm Coulthard, The Sounds of Silence20. Meizhen Liao, Speech or Silence: Within and Beyond Language and Law Consenting21. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt fromThe Language of Consent in Rape Law (In Janet Cotterill (ed.), The Language of Sexual Crime (pp. 91-97)22. Susan Ehrlich, 'Inferring' Consent in the Context of Rape and Sexual Assault23. Tim Grant & Kerrie Spaul, Felicitous Consent 24. Gregory M. Matoesian, Reflections on Peter Tiersma's "The Language and Consent in Rape Law"25. Gail Stygall, Speaking of Consent Defaming26. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from The Language of Defamation27. John M. Conley, Defamation as Speech Act: A Theory that Works28. Roger W. Shuy, Applying Tiersma's Defamation Theory to Defamation Cases29. Krzysztof Kredens, Scarlet Letter or Badge of Honour? Semantic Interpretation in Changing Contexts of Culture Part IVInterpreting Laws 30. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Parchment, Paper, Pixels (pp. 169-176, starting with "Dynamic Statutes")31. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from The Textualization of Precedent (pp. 1187-89, 1257-62).32. Lawrence M. Solan, Talk About Text as Text33. Jeffrey P. Kaplan, Textualization, Textualism, and Purpose-Stating Preambles34. Dru Stevenson, Between Paper and Pixels - How the Form of Modern Laws Changed their Function Part VLanguage and Criminal Justice Crimes of Language35. Peter M. Tiersma, Except from The Language of Perjury: "Literal Truth," Ambiguity, and the False Statement Requirement36. Lawrence M. Solan and Peter M. Tiersma, "Threats" (from Speaking of Crime (pp. 198-204)37. Janet Ainsworth, How We Play Games with Words in the Law38. Philip Gaines, Toward a Communicative Approach to Law- and Rule-Making39. Susan Berk-Seligson, Threats: A Pragmalinguistic Approach to the Analysis of a Speech Crime Criminal Justice and Everyday Speech 40. Peter M. Tiersma, Except from The Judge as Linguist 41. Hannes Kniffka, Applied (Forensic) Linguistics in Autochthonic and Allochthonic Use42. Richard A. Leo, The Sound of Silence: Miranda Waivers, Selective Literalism and Social Context43. Laurie L. Levenson, Words Alone44. Frances Rock, Sizzling Irons: Speaking of Criminal Justice Part VIJury Instructions45. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from The Rocky Road to Legal Reform 46. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Legal Language 47. Bethany K. Dumas, Navigating the Rocky Road 48. Chris Heffer, Authority and Accommodation: Judicial Responses to Jurors' Questions 49. Nancy S. Marder, Jury Instructions Written for Jurors: A Perennial Challenge Bibliography of Peter Tiersma's Work

Contributor Bio:  Solan, Lawrence Lawrence M. Solan is a partner in the law firm of Orans, Elsen and Lupert in New York City. He received his Ph. D. in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and his J. D. from Harvard Law School. He has written extensively on language and law, linguistics, and the psychology of language. Contributor Bio:  Shuy, Roger W My service as professor of linguistics for 30 years at Georgetown University continues through my company, Roger W. Shuy, Inc., which was incorporated in 1982. This service includes linguistic analysis of: tape recorded conversation (bribery, solicitation, extortion, threats, etc.) tape recorded speeches (slander, fraud, etc.) tape recorded interviews (child sex abuse, police interrogations, confessions, etc.) written documents (reports, proposals, insurance policies, testimony, contracts, confessions, etc.) Over the past 40 years, I have consulted on some 500 cases and have testified as a linguistics expert witness 54 times in criminal and civil trials (in 26 states), as well as before the US Senate and US House of Representatives in impeachment trials of US Senators and Federal Judges and in International Criminal Tribunal trials. I have also provided sworn affidavits and depositions in some 75 law cases. Roger W. Shuy, Inc. is now informally affiliated with Dr. Robert A. Leonard of Robert A. Leonard Associates in New York.