Legal Corpus Linguistics Conference Debate Transcript

Friedemann Vogel from the University of Freiburg presents a transcript of a concluding debate from the March 2016 conference 'The Fabric of Language and Law: Discovering Patterns through Legal Corpus Linguistics'. The debate involved four experts—two linguists and two lawyers—discussing the perspectives and limitations of computer-assisted legal linguistics. The article reproduces their discussion on the epistemological issues of interdisciplinary research and evidence-based policy.

Use Cases

• Analyzing interdisciplinary research methodologies based on the described expert debate.
• Studying epistemological issues in evidence-based policy based on the conference discussion.
• Exploring perspectives on computer-assisted legal linguistics based on the linguist and lawyer viewpoints.

Strengths

• Debate transcript is faithfully reproduced from a conference of about forty international scholars.
• Focuses on essential epistemological issues identified by domain experts.

Limitations

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• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
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Provenance

Source

Conference convened by the Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics (CAL²) group under the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

Collection Method

Transcript of a debate from a scholarly conference.

Time Range

Conference held in March 2016.

Geography

Participants from Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the US.