Sanford Schane, Ph.D.
Law and Language Analysis
Attorney Consultant and Expert Witness

Publications in Law and Language*

Books:

• Language and the Law (Continuum Press, 2006)  

            "Table of Contents" and "Introduction"   Download pdf

Articles:

 

• "The Corporation is a Person: The Language of a Legal Fiction". Tulane Law Review, vol. 61, No. 3. 1987.

 

• "A Speech Act Analysis of Consideration in Contract Law", in Language & Law,
  Proceedings of the First Conference of the International Institute of Comparative Linguistic Law,
  P. Pupier & J. Woehrling, eds., pp. 581-90. Montreal: Wilson & Lafleur Ltee. 1989.

 

• "Ambiguity and Misunderstanding in the Law", in Thomas Jefferson Law Review, vol. 26, No. 1. 2002.

 

·         ”Contract Formation as a Speech Act”, in The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law, Peter M. Tiersma & Lawrence M. Solan, eds., pp. 100-113. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012. Download pdf

*For a complete listing of Sanford Schane's publications in Linguistics, go here.