The interrelationship between law and language is manifestly powerful. Once it touches the sacrosanct body of law, even an ordinary word used by a lay person may have the potential of offering varied ...

Zipf’s law, a striking statistical regularity in human language, posits that the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank within a frequency-ordered list. This phenomenon, observed ...

Last week, the UC Berkeley School of Law’s Pro Bono Program launched its first-ever Language Access Directory, an initiative designed to bridge the “persistent” language barriers in legal access. “You ...

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As the legal industry reckons with President Trump’s attack on DEI efforts, many law firms this year swapped out certain language on their websites and other materials to be less offensive to the ...

A law widening the official use of the Albanian language tested the alliance between the governing parties in 2019, while hopes that covert surveillance tapes might spark a breakthrough in an ...

The Coalition Avenir Quebec’s Bill 96 — aimed at protecting and bolstering the French language in Quebec — may have been passed into law earlier this week, but that has done little to quell the ...

Commission’s suggestion – that North Macedonia's language law is too generous to ethnic minorities – has potential to cause discord between the main governing party and its ethnic Albanian allies.

Egypt's parliament is considering a proposal for preserving the Arabic language that has caused an outcry on social media and in parliament with critics arguing it would violate basic freedoms. The ...