Edited by Peter M. Tiersma, formerly Professor of Law, Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, and Lawrence M. Solan, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Language, and Cognition, Brooklyn Law School

Peter M. Tiersma was the Hon. William Matthew Byrne Professor of Law at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles from 2009 until his death in 2014. He had a Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of California, San Diego, and a J. D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Legal Language (1999), and Parchment, Paper, Pixels: Law and the Technologies of Communication (2010).

Lawrence M. Solan is the Don Forchelli Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Language, and Cognition at Brooklyn Law School. He is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Speech, Language, and the Law and the author of Language and Judges (1993).

Mark Adler Janet Ainsworth, Seattle University School of Law
Cornelis J. W. Baaij, University of Amsterdam School of Law
Michel Bastarache, Heenen Blaikie
Robert W. Bennett, Northwestern Law School
Susan Berk-Seligson, Vanderbilt University
Brian H. Bix, University of Minnesota
Ronald R. Butters, Duke University
Jasone Cenoz, University of the Basque Country
Carole E. Chaski, Institute for Linguistic Evidence
Malcolm Coulthard, University of Aston
Deborah Davis, University of Nevada, Reno
Jan Engberg, University of Aarhus
Paul Foulkes, University of York
Peter French, J. P. French Associates
Masahiro Fujita, Kansai University
Naomi E. S. Goldstein, Drexel University
Durk Gorter, University of the Basque Country
Maurizio Gotti, University of Bergamo
Risto Hiltunen, University of Turku
Syugo Hotta, Meiji University School of Law
Martha L. Komter, University of Amsterdam
Krzysztof Kredens, Aston University
Richard A. Leo, University of San Francisco School of Law
Karen McAuliffe, University of Exeter and University of Luxembourg
Marijke Malsch, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement
Nancy S. Marder, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Heikki E. S. Mattila, University of Lapland and University of Helsinki
Liao Meizhen, Central China Normal University
Sharon Messenheimer, Drexel University and Villanova University School of Law
Janice Nadler, Northwestern University School of Law
Mami Hiralke Okawara, Takasaki City University of Economics
Tunde Olusola Opeibi, University of Lagos
Peter L. Patrick, University of Essex
Ralf Poscher, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg
Frances Rock, Cardiff University
Christina L. Riggs Romaine, Drexel University
Susan Sarcevic, University of Rijeka
Sanford Schane, University of California San Diego
Roger W. Shuy, Georgetown University
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, University of Roskilde and Abo Akademi (emerita)
Lawrence M. Solan, Brooklyn Law School
Gail Stygall, University of Washington, Seattle
Peter M. Tiersma, formerly of Loyola Law School
J. D. Trout, Loyola University, Chicago
David Woolls, CFL Software Limited
A. Daniel Yarmey, University of Guelph
Heather Zelle, Drexel University and Villanova University School of Law

This collection is a tremendous accomplishment from two of the leading figures in language and law, and I would highly recommend it. The chapters contain a wealth of invaluable information and ideas, and the book makes an important statement about the need to bridge the gap between legal, linguistic and psychological approaches to language and law. - Chris Heffer, The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law