"LL" refers to Peter Tiersma, Legal Language (1999), available at the campus bookstore.
"reader" refers to the reader that will be available at graphics around the second week of the semester.

Week 1: History of Legal English
Read LL, ch. 1-3

Week 2: Nature of Legal Language, part 1
Read LL, ch. 4-5
Dorman v. Satti (reader)

Week 3: Nature of Legal Language, part 2
Read LL, ch. 6 & 8
Mellinkoff excerpt (reader)

Week 4: Interpretation, part 1
Read Posner, Statutory Interpretation (excerpt; in reader)
Llewellyn, Canons on Statutes (in reader)
Eskridge, The New Textualism (excerpt; in reader)

Week 5: Interpretation, part 2
Read: LL, ch. 7
Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation (excerpt; in reader)
Solan, The Decline of Textualism (excerpt; in reader)

Week 6: Language in the Courtroom, part 1
Read: LL, ch. 9-10
Conley and O'Barr, Presentational Style in the Courtroom (reader)
Loftus and Palmer, Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction (reader)

Week 7: Language in the Courtroom, part 2
Read: LL, ch. 11
O.J. Simpson case, excerpts from closing arguments (reader)   

Week 8: Language Crimes
Read: Clinton deposition in Jones Case (excerpts in reader)
Clinton Grand Jury Testimony (excerpts in reader)   

Week 9: Jury Instructions
Read: Simpson instructions (LL, Appendix D)
Saxton, How Well Do Jurors Understand Instructions
Buchanan case (reader)  

Week 10:  Language Rights, part 1
Read: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (reader)
Quebec Charter of the French language (reader)

Week 11:  Language Rights, part 2
Read: Meyer v. Nebraska (reader)
Ruiz v. Hull (reader)

Weeks 12-14: Student presentations