Introduction / Jacqueline Visconti -- Legal drafting / Christopher Williams -- The interpretation of laws / Lawrence M. Solan -- Language rights / Janny HC Leung -- Language planning and legal systems / Richard Powell -- Semantic processing of legal texts / Tommaso Agnoloni and Giulia Venturi -- Implicit legal norms / Barbara Pasa and Lucia Morra -- Authorship attribution analysis / Sabine Ehrhardt -- Topic management in police-suspect interviewing / Georgina Heydon -- Forensic voice comparison / Michael Jessen -- Narrative practices and voice in court / Chris Heffer -- Linguistic analysis in trade mark law : current approaches and new challenges / Alan Durant and Jennifer Davis -- Defamation, language and linguistics / Roger W. Shuy -- Future directions in law and popular culture : a British perspective / Peter Robson -- Multilingual interpretation of European Union law / Silvia Ferreri -- Contemporary Chinese law : a linguistic perspective / Marina Timoteo -- Unity and varieties of Arabic as a legal language : practices of interpretation and translation / Roberta Aluffi -- Law, language and communication in the Indian context / Domenico Francavilla -- The many languages of Japanese legal language / Andrea Ortolani.