Publications
Author, “The Concept of Ordinary Meaning in Common Law Courts,” Legal Terminology, 3 Handbook of Terminology, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023
Co-Author with Thomas R. Lee, “The Corpus and the Critics,” 87 University of Chicago Law Review 275, 2021
Author, “Natural Language in Legal Interpretation,” 85 Brooklyn Law Review 533, 2021
Author, “Contract Interpretation with Corpus Linguistics,” 94 Washington Law Review 1337, 2019
Co-Author with Thomas R. Lee, “Judging Ordinary Meaning,” 127 Yale Law Journal 788, 2018
Author, “Corpus Linguistics in Legal Interpretation: An Evolving Interpretive Framework,” 6 International Journal of Language & Law 67, 2017
Author, “Hard Cases and Hard Data,” 13 Columbia Science & Technology Law Review 156, 2012
Author, “The Dictionary Is Not a Fortress,” BYU Law Review 1915, 2010
Speaking Engagements
Speaker, “Predicting Corpora,” Symposium in Honor of Professor Larry Solan, Center for Law, Language, and Cognition, Brooklyn Law School, New York, November 2023
Discussant, Online Workshop on Computational Analysis of Law, University of Virginia Law School, February 2021
Panelist, “Corpus Linguistics in Legal Interpretation,” American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, April 2021
Panelist, “Data-Driven Approaches to Legal Interpretation,” Center for Law, Language, and Cognition, Brooklyn Law School, New York, March 2020
Panelist, “Corpus Linguistics and the Law,” ABA Administrative Law Conference, Washington DC, November 2019
Panelist, “Thinking Like a Linguist,” Appellate Judges Education Institute Summit, Washington DC, November 2019
Moderator, “Linguistic Corpora in the Law,” International Language and Law Association Conference, UCLA Law School, September 2019
Speaker, “Toward a Corpus-Based Interpretive Framework for Legal Texts,” Fabric of Law and Language Conference, Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany, March 2016
Speaker, “Corpora in the Courts,” Legal Corpus Pragmatics, Alberg-Ludwigs-Universitat, Freiburg, Germany, April 2013
