Dear Colleagues,
The 10th annual Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference will be held on Friday, October 24, 2025 at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School in Provo, Utah. The keynote address will be delivered by Abbe Gluck, the Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School.
Proposals are invited for individual papers and panels. We are open to submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
* applications of corpus linguistics to constitutional, statutory, contract, patent, trademark, probate, administrative, and criminal law in any state or nation; * philosophical, normative, and pragmatic commentary on the use of corpus linguistics in the law; * triangulation between corpus linguistics and other empirical methods in legal interpretation; * corpus-based analysis of legal discourse or topics; * best practices in corpus design and corpus linguistic methods in legal settings. The proposal deadline is May 15, 2025. Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 750 words and complete contact information for presenters. Please send proposals to byulawcorpus@law.byu.edumailto:byulawcorpus@law.byu.edu.
We hope you'll consider submitting a proposal!
Sincerely,
LCL 2025 Conference Organizing Committee (Tom Lee, Jesse Egbert, Brett Hashimoto, James Heilpern, James Phillips)