The Danish-English-French corpus in Contract Law, better known as the
AARHUS corpus, contains 1 million words in each language. It is not a
parallel corpus.
The corpus is subdivided into 6 types of texts:
i) statutes, rules and regulations
ii) travaux preparatories (reports from law reform committees)
iii) judgements/decisions
iv) contracts
v) legal textbooks
vi) articles in law journals
I obtained my copy by writing to the address given in this book:
English Computer Corpora: selected papers & reserach guide by Stig
Johansson & Anita B. Stenstrom (1991). Sorry but I don't have the address
with me at the moment.
There is also a database called Legal Data Consortium (LDC)
made available by the US Dept. of Justice. It contains among other,
categories such as Case Law, Federal Regulation, International Agreement,
Statutory Law. Email the following address to order a copy:
ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu
LDC can also be accessed at URL:
Su'ad
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Su'ad Awab
Dept of Linguistics
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
England, UK.
Email: s.awab@lancaster.ac.uk
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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Frances Rock wrote:
> Dear all
>
> Does anyone know of the existence of any corpora which are made up
> partly or entirely of legal texts?
>
> By 'legal texts' I mean:
> court proceedings;
> police interviews;
> contracts;
> acts;
> information about legal procedures;
> statements.....
>
> In fact at this stage it would be great to hear about any
> corpus which consist, in whole or part, of any written or spoken
> language which has been taken from any setting which is within or
> allied to policing, law and justice.
>
> I am also keen to hear about any web sites or email lists which you
> may have come across which might be relevant to the same broadly
> defined area.
>
> I look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Frances Rock
>
> Frances Rock
> Postgraduate Student
> Department of English
> University of Birmingham
> Edgbaston
> Birmingham B15 2TT
>
> 0121-257-3519
> f.e.rock@bham.ac.uk
>
>