Recht und Sprache

Abstract:
The content of the Homepage deals with legal methods and legal linguistics as well as the connection between language and law. It offers a glossary with articles on selected keywords and the theory of law. The publishers offer a basic course on essential topics of legal methodology and gives overviews of certain legal topics as well.

Content:

• Glossary with articles
• Overviews and questionnaires (constitutional law, administrative law /AT, building law, local law and police law, state liability law)
• Basic course in legal methodology
• Schemes for solutions in public law
• Publications about methodology and legal linguistics (PDF)
• Literature on language and law (PDF)

Rechtssemiotik

Abstract:
A page about legal semiotics that contains explanations of terms from legal philosophy and legal sociology.

LegistiK

Abstract:
Legistics is an umbrella term for rules „ensuring the coherence of federal law and adherence to legal principles“. Such rules result in statutory standardization that helps to improve the structures and language of the law, to systematically study and hence scientifically underpin the art of formal law-making. These objectives become more and more important in a world of increasing digitization, legal algorithms, corpus linguistics and text mining. The information portal www.LegistiK.de documents the present and historical rules on formal law-making, and the official guidelines designed to aid legistics in Germany.

Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch

Abstract:
The “Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch” is the comprehensive dictionary of historical German and West Germanic legal terms. It thus covers the wide realm where language, law and history meet. Because of the DRW’s encyclopedic tendency, special attention is paid to the semantics of words. Each entry examines a word from its first historical record until the present time, which in some cases spans more than 1400 years. To capture the full lexical diversity of meanings for each word, the dictionary employs techniques of synchronic and diachronic comparative law in addition to purely linguistic and lexicographic approaches.

Content:
Legal Online Dictionary, DRW related publications

Lex Lingua Gesellschaft für Rechts- und Fachsprache mbH

Abstract:
Lex Lingua Gesellschaft für Rechts- und Fachsprache mbH was founded in summer 2012. Since then, we have devoted ourselves exclusively to text editing, in particular to formulating specialist texts from the fields of science, technology and law in a way that is appropriate for the target audience, and we offer appropriate editing and proofreading services for these special types of texts – from text drafting to print-ready layout.

Redaktionsstab Rechtssprache beim Bundesministerium der Justiz

Abstract:
The editorial department of the German federal ministry of justice works on drafts for statutes and regulations. They are testing for linguistic accurateness and
comprehensibility.

Law & Corpus Linguistics

Abstract:
BYU Law’s Law & Corpus Linguistics was initially inspired by Stephen C. Mouritsen’s BYU Law Review Note, The Dictionary Is Not a Fortress: Definitional Fallacies and a Corpus-Based Approach to Plain Meaning, (2010). As various scholars began to apply corpus linguistic to legal questions, BYU’s Linguistics Professor Mark Davies’ well known Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) proved invaluable.