Hello,

We're writing with an updated call for proposals for the Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference to be held on Friday, October 13, 2023, with pre-conference workshops on Thursday, October 12. The conference will be held at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School in Provo, Utah.

We're pleased to announce that the keynote address at this year's conference will be given by D. Gordon Smith, Dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. Gordon has made tremendous contributions to the field of law and corpus linguistics, and we're excited to have him as this year's keynote speaker.

Proposals are invited for individual papers and panels. We're open to submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

* applications of corpus linguistics to the 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 linguistic analysis of the law of countries other than the United States; * the relationship between corpus linguistics and pragmatics (e.g. implicature, presupposition, sociolinguistic context); * corpus-based analysis of legal discourse or topics; * best practices in corpus design and corpus linguistic methods in legal settings.

We have a new proposal deadline of May 31, 2023. 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.

Best,

BYU LCL 2023 Conference Organizing Committee (Thomas Lee, Jesse Egbert, Brett Hashimoto, James Heilpern and James Phillips)

------------------------------ Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brigham Young University https://sites.google.com/site/brettjameshashimoto/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9871-5092