A seemingly routine Sixth Circuit appeal involving the interpretation of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act statute (ERISA) recently sparked an interesting debate between two Circuit ...

We are grateful to Eugene Volokh for the invitation to discuss corpus linguistics generally and our forthcoming article, "Judging Ordinary Meaning," in particular. Corpus linguistics is an empirical ...

The precision and promise of a data-driven society has stumbled these past years, serving up some disturbing—even damning—results: facial recognition software that can’t recognize Black faces, human ...

I agree with the majority's textual analysis and concur to the extent the majority rests on that analysis. Because the text of 29 U.S.C. § 1002(2)(A)(ii) is clear, we should go no further. And the ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic was still raging when a federal judge in Florida made the fateful decision to type “sanitation” into the search bar of the Corpus of Historical American English. Many parts of ...

Corpus linguistics is a rapidly evolving discipline that employs large, systematically compiled collections of spoken and written texts—corpora—to empirically investigate the structures and uses of ...

Not everything you learn here is worth holding on to. Harrison Keely, CC BY 4.0. We are sent to school to Learn Stuff. During that time we are deprived of our liberty as a succession of adults attempt ...