BYU Law Hosts 8th Annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference
PROVO, Utah, Oct. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BYU Law today announced it will hold its eighth annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference on October 13. The event, sponsored by Schaerr Jaffe, LLP, BYU College of Humanities and the Judicial Education Institute, will convene prominent legal and linguistics scholars, judges and industry professionals interested in furthering the discipline of corpus linguistics – the methodology for understanding the meaning of words at the time they were written by analyzing language in large collections of texts called "corpora."
- Lineup to include keynote by D. Gordon Smith, linguist workshop, panel on the intersection of IP law and corpus linguistics
PROVO, Utah, Oct. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BYU Law today announced it will hold its eighth annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference on October 13. - Its law and corpus linguistics platform search interface has been used by thousands of researchers, including federal and state judges, and appellate attorneys.
- Smith spearheaded the Law and Corpus Linguistics project during his tenure as dean of BYU Law.
- The study of law and corpus linguistics was pioneered by BYU Law School.