Language of the Law, English

  • Berk-Seligson, Susan. The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process (University of Chicago Press, 1980) ISBN No. 0-226-04371-1. Chapter 2, Law and Language, is particularly useful.
  • Goodrich, Peter. Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric and Legal Analysis (St. Martin's Press, 1987)
  • Katz, Alan N. ed. Legal Traditions and Systems: An International Handbook (Greenwood Press, 1986) ISBN No. 0-313-23830-8
  • Mellinkoff, David. The Language of the Law (Little, Brown & Co., 1963). A classic work, entertaining reading.
  • Merryman, John Henry and David S. Clark. Comparative Law: Western European and Latin American Legal Systems (Bobbs-Merrill Co.) ISBN No. 0-672-83379-4
  • O'Barr, William. Linguistic Evidence: Language, Power, and Strategy in the Courtroom (Academic Press, 1982)
  • Rembar, Charles. The Law of the Land (Simon & Schuster, 1980) ISBN No. 0-671-24322-5. A good history of the common law legal system for laypersons.
  • Rieber, Robert and William A. Stewart, eds. The Language Scientist as Expert in the Legal Setting: Issues in Forensic Linguistics (New York Academy of Sciences, 1990)
  • Shuy, Roger. Language Crimes: The Use and Abuse of Language Evidence in the Courtroom (Blackwell, 1993)
  • Szladits, Charles. Bibliography on Foreign and Comparative Law (Parker School Studies in Foreign and Comparative Law, 1955) Library of Congress No. 55-11076