Most cited papers in Legal Language and Interpretation
What are the most cited papers in Legal Language and Interpretation?
The most cited paper in Legal Language and Interpretation is "Scorekeeping in a Language Game" (David Lewis, 1979), with 648 citations. Next come "Language in the Legal Process" (375) and "Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice" (373).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 65 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scorekeeping in a Language Game David Lewis · Springer series in language and communication | 1979 | 648 |
| 2 | Language in the Legal Process Brenda Danet · Law & Society Review | 1980 | 375 |
| 3 | Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice Lawrence M. Solan, Pieter Meijes Tiersma | Feb 2005 | 373 |
| 4 | The Name and Nature of Translator Studies Andrew Chesterman · HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business | 30 Aug 2017 | 365 |
| 5 | Overcoming absolute primacy: Respect for national identity under the Lisbon Treaty Armin von Bogdandy, Stephan W. Schill · Common Market Law Review | Oct 2011 | 351 |
| 6 | Gay and Lesbian Language Don Kulick · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 2000 | 313 |
| 7 | The classification of cooperative illocutionary acts Michael Hancher · Language in Society | Apr 1979 | 301 |
| 8 | Legal Translation Explained María Ángeles Ruiz Moneva · Miscelánea A Journal of English and American Studies | 31 Dec 2005 | 223 |
| 9 | Author Identification, Idiolect, and Linguistic Uniqueness Malcolm G. Coulthard · Applied Linguistics | 2 Nov 2004 | 212 |
| 10 | Hierarchies of Regulations and their Logic Carlos E. Alchourrón, David Makinson | 1981 | 199 |
| 11 | LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English Ilias Chalkidis, Abhik Jana, Dirk Hartung et al. · Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) | 2022 | 194 |
| 12 | The E uropean Redistributive State and a European Law of Struggle Damian Chalmers · European Law Journal | 7 Aug 2012 | 191 |
| 13 | The Value of Vagueness: Delegation, Defiance, and Judicial Opinions Jeffrey K. Staton, Georg Vanberg · American Journal of Political Science | Jul 2008 | 189 |
| 14 | Balancing, constitutional review, and representation Robert Alexy · International Journal of Constitutional Law | Oct 2005 | 186 |
| 15 | Populism as a constitutional project Paul Blokker · International Journal of Constitutional Law | 19 Mar 2019 | 184 |
| 16 | Soft Law in the E uropean U nion—The Changing Nature of EU Law Fabien Terpan · European Law Journal | 20 May 2014 | 180 |
| 17 | Vagueness in Law and Language: Some Philosophical Issues Jeremy Waldron · California Law Review | May 1994 | 175 |
| 18 | What’s so Special about Legal Translation? Malcolm Harvey · Meta Journal des traducteurs | 30 Aug 2004 | 166 |
| 19 | Brief Study on Domestication and Foreignization in Translation Wenfen Yang · Journal of Language Teaching and Research | 2010 | 163 |
| 20 | Rethinking the Typology of Relative Clauses Bernard Comrie · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) | 1998 | 163 |
| 21 | Institutional Illusions Kaisa Koskinen · The Translator | Apr 2000 | 157 |
| 22 | Legalbench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models Neel Guha et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2023 | 152 |
| 23 | Minority Language Rights in International Law Robert Dunbar · International and Comparative Law Quarterly | 2001 | 150 |
| 24 | Jurisdiction: Grounding Law in Language Justin B. Richland · Annual Review of Anthropology | 2 Aug 2013 | 149 |
| 25 | The Democratic Accountability of the European Central Bank: A Comment on Two Fairy‐tales Jakob de Haan, Sylvester C. W. Eijffinger · JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies | Sep 2000 | 148 |
| 26 | The Rule of Law and the Legitimacy of Constitutional Democracy Michel Rosenfeld · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2001 | 144 |
| 27 | The Legal Community: Judges, Lawyers, Officials and Clerks in the Writing of Europe Harm Schepel, Rein Wesseling · European Law Journal | Jun 1997 | 144 |
| 28 | The Plain Language Movement Mark R. Adler · Oxford University Press eBooks | 21 Nov 2012 | 143 |
| 29 | Should the EU Protect Democracy and the Rule of Law inside Member States? Jan‐Werner Müller · European Law Journal | Mar 2015 | 140 |
| 30 | Dissent in Iberia: The ideal points of justices on the Spanish and Portuguese Constitutional Tribunals Chris Hanretty · European Journal of Political Research | 24 Apr 2012 | 137 |
| 31 | Translation in global news agencies Esperança Bielsa · Target International Journal of Translation Studies | 26 Jul 2007 | 135 |
| 32 | Can Quantitative Methods Complement Doctrinal Legal Studies? Using Citation Network and Corpus Linguistic Analysis to Understand International Courts Urška Šadl, Henrik Palmer Olsen · Leiden Journal of International Law | 6 Mar 2017 | 131 |
| 33 | Can you tell when an illiberal democracy is in the making? An appeal to comparative constitutional scholarship from Hungary Renáta Uitz · International Journal of Constitutional Law | 2015 | 124 |
| 34 | Legislation and Statutory Interpretation Elizabeth Garrett · Oxford University Press eBooks | 2 Sep 2009 | 119 |
| 35 | The Adventures of the Constituent Power: Beyond Revolutions? Andrew Arato | 13 Dec 2018 | 118 |
| 36 | Illiberalism Within: Rule of Law Backsliding in the EU Laurent Pech, Kim Lane Scheppele · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2017 | 118 |
| 37 | The Idea of Constitutional Pluralism Neil Walker · Modern Law Review | May 2002 | 114 |
| 38 | Predicting the Law Area and Decisions of French Supreme Court Cases Octavia-Maria Şulea, Marcos Zampieri, Mihaela Vela et al. | 10 Nov 2017 | 113 |
| 39 | Linguistic Human Rights Tove Skutnabb‐Kangas · Oxford University Press eBooks | 21 Nov 2012 | 113 |
| 40 | Constitutionalising an Overlapping Consensus: The ECJ and the Emergence of a Coordinate Constitutional Order Charles Frederick Sabel, Oliver Gerstenberg · European Law Journal | 24 Aug 2010 | 111 |
| 41 | LANGUAGE AND THE LAW John Gibbons · Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | 1999 | 110 |
| 42 | James Milroy and Lesley Milroy, Authority in language: Investigating language prescription and standardisation. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. Suzanne E. Romaine · Language in Society | Jun 1988 | 108 |
| 43 | Law, language and community: some preconditions of criminal liability R. A. Duff · Oxford Journal of Legal Studies | Jun 1998 | 104 |
| 44 | Translating the Untranslatable Gillian Lane‐Mercier · Target International Journal of Translation Studies | 1997 | 103 |
| 45 | Simplification v. Easification-- The Case of Legal Texts1 Vijay Kumar Bhatia · Applied Linguistics | 1983 | 103 |
| 46 | Designing a Constitution-Drafting Process: Lessons from Kenya Alicia L. Bannon · The Yale Law Journal | Jun 2007 | 102 |
| 47 | An unconstitutional constitution? A comparative perspective Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn · International Journal of Constitutional Law | Jul 2006 | 102 |
| 48 | Bringing the News Back Home: Strategies of Acculturation and Foreignisation Susan Bassnett · Language and Intercultural Communication | 15 May 2005 | 101 |
| 49 | Law and the Semantic Web Selic, Bran, Aldo Gangemi, Casanovas Romeu, Pompeu et al. · Lecture notes in computer science | 2005 | 100 |
| 50 | World influences on human rights language in constitutions: A cross-national study Colin J. Beck, Gili S. Drori, John W. Meyer · International Sociology | 16 May 2012 | 100 |
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