Legal English Publications & Scholarship

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1. Georgetown Legal English Faculty Publications & Scholarship

Marta Baffy & Kirsten Schaetzel, Academic Legal Discourse and Analysis: Essential Skills for International Students Studying Law in the United States (New York: Wolters Kluwer 2020).
 [BOOK]
Craig Hoffman, Practical Legal English: Writing as a U.S. Lawyer (St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic 2019).

*Academic Articles

Craig HoffmanParse the Sentence First: Curbing the Urge to Resort to the Dictionary when Interpreting Legal Texts, 6 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y 401-438 (2003). [HEIN] [W] [L]

Craig HoffmanUsing Discourse Analysis Methodology to Teach “Legal English”, Int’l J.L. Lang. & Discourse, Sept. 2011, at 1-19. [Gtown Law]

Marta BaffyDoing ‘Being Interrupted’ in Political Talk, Language Soc’y (Online First), May 18, 2020, at 1-27.

Marta BaffyConstructed Dialogue as a Resource for Promoting Students’ Socialization to Written Academic Discourse in an EAP Class, Linguistics & Educ., Aug. 2018, at 33-42.

Marta BaffyShifting Frames to Construct a Legal English Class, 25 J. Eng. Acad. Purposes 58-70 (2017).

Marta Baffy & Alexandria Marsters, The Constructed Voice in Courtroom Cross-Examination, 22 Int’l J. Speech Language & L. 143-165 (2015).

Marta Baffy, 44 Language Soc’y 126-127 (2015) (reviewing Ken Lau, Learning to Become a Professional in a Textually-Mediated World: A Text-Oriented Study of Placement Practices (2012)).

Marta Baffy, Note, Right of Publicity Licensing in a New Age: No Doubt v. Activision Publishing, Inc., 28 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 359-383 (2010). [HEIN] [W] [L]

John Dundon, Cross-Examining English-Medium Legal Education.

Andrew Kerr, “KERR ON THE PERFECT OPINION @GEORGETOWNLAW,” coverage by Law & Humanities Blog, August 7, 2019, featuring Adjunct Professor Andrew Jensen Kerr.

Andrew Jensen Kerr, Julie B. Lake & Catherine Spratt, Writing Centers as Spaces to Acculturate International Students to U.S. Legal Discourse, Second Draft, Spring 2016, at 17-21. [WWW]

Julie B. Lake, 37 Stud. Second Language Acquisition 170-171 (2015) (reviewing Processing Perspectives on Task Performance (Peter Skehan ed., 2014)).

Ellen J. Serafini, Julie B. Lake & Michael H. Long, Needs Analysis for Specialized Learner Populations: Essential Methodological Improvements, 40 Eng. Specific Purposes 11-26 (2015).

Alison Mackey, Akiko Fujii, Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas, Heather Weger, Natalia Dolgova Jacobsen, Lyn Fogle, Julie Lake, Kerstin Sondermann, Kaitlyn Tagarelli, Mari Tsujita, Atsuko Watanabe, Rebekha Abbuhl & Katie Kim, Tasks and Traditional Practice Activities in a Foreign Language Context, in Second Language Interaction in Diverse Educational Contexts 71-87 (Kim McDonough & Alison Mackey eds., Amsterdam, Neth.: John Benjamins Publishing 2013). [BOOK]

Nicole Ziegler, Corinne Seals, Steffi Ammons, Julie Lake, Phillip Hamrick & Patrick Rebuschat, Interaction in Conversation Groups: The Development of L2 Conversational Styles, in Second Language Interaction in Diverse Educational Contexts 269-292 (Kim McDonough & Alison Mackey eds., Amsterdam, Neth.: John Benjamins Publishing 2013). [BOOK]

*In the Media

2. Other Legal English Scholars, Publications & Scholarship

1. Alissa Hartig 

2. Lawrence Solan of Brooklyn Law  https://www.brooklaw.edu/Contact-Us/Solan-Lawrence 

3. Peter Tiersma https://petertiersma.lls.edu/

4. Susan Philips (linguistic anthropologist) https://linguistics.arizona.edu/person/susan-u-philips

5. Elizabeth Mertz (linguistic anthropologist; law professor at University of Wisconsin Law School)

6. Sandra Bancroft-Billings

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