Judges and the language of law [electronic resource] : why governments across the world have increasingly lost in court / Matthew Williams.
By machine reading 60,556,672 words of legislation, and analysing 7,469 country years, this book uncovers changing patterns in the language of laws. In addition to this wide angle, a tight focus on five countries -- Canada, France, Germany, the UK and the US -- reveals the effects of changing legal...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Language in Contemporary Politics
- Chapter 1. Introduction and State of the Art
- Chapter 2. Modern Political Language
- Part 2. Quantitative History
- Chapter 3. The new Constitutionalism in 187 Countries
- Chapter 4. Regulating the Extent of the State in Five Democracies
- Part 3. Qualitative History
- Chapter 5. Rule of Law without a Constitution in the UK
- Chapter 6. Federalism and Party Polarisation in the US
- Chapter 7. Mixed Legal Systems with Human Rights Reform in Canada
- Chapter 8. Executive Dominance with Decentralisation in France
- Chapter 9. The Burden of History, with the Promise of Philosophy in Germany
- Chapter 10. Conclusions.