Hello there,
A while ago, I posted a question about legal corpora available. This is a
summary of responses that I got from both the Forensic Linguistics List and
the Corpora List. I'd like to thank the following people for their interest
at different stages:
Sue Blackwell
Frances Rock
Gary Muldoon
Ilya Ahtaridis
Luciana Carvalho Fonseca Corrêa Pinto
Ralf Steinberger
A good starting point is the summary in the corpora archives posted by
Frances Rock the link is:
<http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/corpora/1998-4/0160.html>http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/corpora/1998-4/0160.html
Apart from that the query turned up these corpora/sources of text:
AARHUS CORPUS (contact: Ole Lauridsen ol@asd.bk)
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
JURIS
The Linguistic Data consortium has a 2 CD-rom set available from the US
justice department (see
<http://wave.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC98T32>http://wave.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC98T32)
There are a total of 694,667 document units in the corpus and these can be
categorized to some extent with regard to their content. The following is a
partial list of categories and their descriptions drawn from JURIS
documentation contained in the corpus. The terminology and organization of
categories are those used in the JURIS documentation:
* Case Law
* Executive Order
* Regulations
* Federal Register
* Statutory Law
* Administrative Law
* International Agreements
* Freedom of Information Act and related documents
* Indian Law
* Tax Law
* Brief
EUROPEAN UNION LEGAL TEXTS
A number of different kinds of European Union texts are available at
<http://europa.eu.int/celex/>http://europa.eu.int/celex/. This includes
legislation, case law, preparatory acts and parliamentary questions. A
number of European texts may also be available via ELRA/ELDA, but these may
only be Parliamentary Questions and Answers.
Regards,
Christoph Hafner
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