Law and Language: Current Legal Issues

ISBN-10: 0199673667
ISBN-13: 9780199673667
Category: Law
Pages: 625
Language: English
Published: 2013-02-21
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Authors: Michael Freeman, Fiona Smith

Description

Law and Language, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and language. This volume examines the themes of truth in language and the law, and the role of language in different areas of law, including contract and criminal law.

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Law and Language: Effective Symbols of Community
- 2013-08-08
- 223 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge University Press
Law and Language: Effective Symbols of Community
- 2013-08-08
- 226 pages
- Ebook
- Cambridge University Press
Law and Language
- 2000
- 391 pages
- Paperback
- Ashgate/Dartmouth

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