Articles

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False Consensus Bias in Contract Interpretation (with Terri Rosenblatt and Daniel Osherson), 108 Columbia L. Rev. 1268 (2008)
Psychologists call the propensity to believe that one’s views are the normal views even when...
 

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Tax Shelters and the Code: Navigating Between Text and Intent (with Steven A. Dean), 26 Va. Tax Rev. 879 (2007)
 

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Contract as Agreement, 83 Notre Dame L. Rev. 353 (2007)
 

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Where Does Blaming Come From?, 71 Brook. L. Rev. 939 (2006)
 

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Private Langauge, Public Laws: The Central Role of Legislative Intent in Statutory Interpretation, 93 Geo. L.J 427 (2005)

For decades, the use of “legislative intent” in statutory interpretation has been attacked both by...

 
Author Identification in American Courts (with P. Tiersma), 25 Applied Linguistics 448 (2004)
 
Cops and Robbers: Selective Literalism in American Criminal Law (with P. Tiersma), 38 Law & Soc’y. Rev. 229 (2004)
 

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Hearing Voices: Speaker Identification in Court (with P. Tiersma), 54 Hastings L.J. 373 (2003)
 

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Statutory Inflation and Institutional Choice, 44 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 2209 (2003)
 

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Should Criminal Statutes Be Interpreted Dynamically?, Issues in Legal Scholarship (2002)
Eskridge's theory of dynamic statutory interpretation focuses largely on regulatory statutes and civil cases, but...
 

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Causation, Contribution and Legal Liability: An Empirical Study (with J. Darley), 64 Law & Contemp. Probs. 265 (2001)
 
Un Effect du Principe C Chez l'Enfant Francophone (with H. Goodluck), 45 Can. J. Linguistics 49 (2000)
 

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Law, Language and Lenity, 40 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 57 (1998)
 
Linguistic Experts as Semantic Tour Guides, 5 Forensic Linguistics 87 (1998)
 
When Judges Use the Dictionary, 68 Am. Speech 50 (1993)
 
Focus and Levels of Representation, 15 Linguistic Inquiry 174 (1984)
 
Contrastive Stress and Children’s Interpretation of Pronouns, 23 J. of Speech & Hearing Res. 688 (1980)
 
A Reevaluation of the Basic Operations Hypothesis (with H. Goodluck), 7 Cognition 85 (1979)
 

Books

Contributions to Books

La Lingúística Forense en los Tribunales Norteamericanos (with Peter M. Tiersma), Lingüística Forense, Lengua y Derecho: Conceptos, Metodos y Aplicaciones (2006)
 
Language and Law: Definitions in Law, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2005)
 
Vagueness and Ambiguity in Legal Interpretation , Vagueness in Normative Texts (2005)
 
Finding Ordinary Meaning in the Dictionary , Language and Law: Proceedings of a Conference (2003)
 
The Clinton Scandal: Some Lessons from Linguistics , Language in the Legal Process (2002)
 
Perjury and Impeachment: The Rule of Law or the Rule of Lawyers? , Aftermath: The Clinton Impeachment and the Presidency in the Age of Political Spectacle (2001)
 
Chomsky and Cardozo: Linguistics and the Law , Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments (1994)
 
Does the Legal System Need Experts in English Syntax, The Language Scientist as Expert in the Legal Setting (1990)
 
Linguistic Principles as the Rule of Law , Langue et droit -- Language and Law (1989)
 
A Comparison of Null and Pronoun Anaphora in First Language Acquisition Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora: Defining the Constraints , ) (with B. Lust, S. Flynn, C. Cross, and E. Schuetz), Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora: Defining the Constraints (1986)
 
The Acquisition of Structural Restrictions on Anaphora, Language Acquistion and Linguistic Theory (1981)
 
The Acquisition of Tough Movement , Studies in First and Second Language Acquisition (1979)
 
Children’s Use of Syntactic Structure in Interpreting Relative Clauses (with T. Roeper), Papers in the Structure and Development of Child Language (1978)
 

Reviews

Review, Roger Shuy, Creating Language Crimes, 11 Theoretical Criminology 126 (2007)
 

Other

Wrist Slaps are No Deterrent, Nat’l L.J (2003)
 
Catch Phrase [Commentary] (with P. M. Tiersma), Phila. Inq. (2003)
 
Pointing Fingers, MSNBC.com Opinons (2003)
 
Forum: Forensic Science, No Consensus (with P. M. Tiersma), Issues in Sci. & Tech. (2003)