Re: Corpora: Legal corpus?

From: Frances Rock (rockfe.eng.arts.bham@hhs.bham.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 12:15:26 MET DST

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    Hello

    I posted an enquiry like this on the list some time ago because we
    had hoped to get a grant to build a legal corpus at Birmingham and
    wanted to see what else was out there.

    At the time, I posted quite a detailed summary onto the list which
    should be available in an archives somewhere (it was at the end of
    1998 or beginning of 1999). I also sent the query to the 'Forensic
    Linguistics' mailing list (forensic-linguistics@mailbase.ac.uk) and
    the query and a summary are also in their archives. If you can't
    find the summaries just let me know and I'll try to send you one
    from here, but at the moment I'm not able to lay my hand on it.

    The bid to build a legal corpus at Birmingham was being
    coordinated by Sue Blackwell (S.A.Blackwell@bham.ac.uk)
    and she might be happy to tell you about what she'd planned for
    the corpus we'd hoped for.

    The following query was posted on the corpora list around 6
    months ago so you might like to contact this person:
    From: "Roberta Facchinetti"
    <faro@chiostro.univr.it>
    Organization: Universita' di Verona
    To: corpora@hd.uib.no
    Date sent: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:58:15 GMT+1
    Subject: Corpora: legal language database
    Send reply to: faro@chiostro.univr.it

    Dear All,

    I am looking for any computerised monolingual or multilingual
    database of LEGAL LANGUAGE available on floppy disk, cd-rom
    or accessible via the net.
    I would appreciate your help quite a lot!

    Roberta Facchinetti

    The following query was also posted very recently, so this might be
    another useful contact for you:

    From: "Peggy Liu Saijun" <artp9359@nus.edu.sg>
    To: "Corpora" <corpora@hd.uib.no>
    Subject: Corpora: Legal Corpus
    Date sent: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 18:26:34 +0800

    Dear all corpus experts on the list,

    I am new to this list and to corpus studies. Does anybody know if
    there is a corpus of legal texts freely available on the internet?

    Thank you in advance.

    Peggy

    My e-mail address: artp9359@nus.edu.sg

    I will be very pleased to send a summary of the responses I had if
    you are not able to find it in the list archives. It might be worth
    posting your query on the forensic linguistics list too, I think a
    corpus has recently been built in Germany....

    Good luck!

    Frances

    ________________________________________________________
    Frances Rock
    Research Field: Forensic Linguistics
    English Department
    The University of Birmingham
    Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT
    0121 456 3129 F.E.Rock@bham.ac.uk



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