Research Projects: Spring 2021

Presented Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Via Zoom 4:10pm - 6:10 pm
Webcast Link - All Five Presentations (2 hours)

4:10 Session:
Steve C. Jones, District Judge, United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia
Catherine D. Perry, former Chief Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
Ute Römer, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL, Georgia State University 

Presentations:
4:10: Ellen Messer, A Corpus Linguistics Analysis of “Unreasonable” at the Time of the Founding -- collaborating with Margaret Wood, PhD student in Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University
4:30: Gabriele Setley, A Plain-meaning Tool Overlooked: Discerning the Meaning of § 362(k) -- collaborating with Amanda Black and Maria Kostromitina, PhD students in Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University 

5:00 Session 
Audrey Fleissig, District Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri 
G. Richard Bevan, Chief Justice, Idaho Supreme Court 
Tammy Gales, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, Hofstra University

Presentations: 
5:00: Mary Kay Bacallao, Is an Unborn Child a Person Within the Original Meaning of the 1868 Georgia Constitution and the 1868 Fourteenth Amendment of The U.S Constitution?  -- – assisted by Haoshan Ren, PhD student in Applied Linguistics, Georgia State University 
5:20: Clark Cunningham presenting for Bradford Poston, General Searches and Electronic Evidence: The Original Meaning of “Executed” In Georgia’s Time Limited Search Warrant Statute --- collaborating with Amanda Black and Maria Kostromitina, PhD students in Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University
5:40: Megan Wells, When Is a Warrant Executed Based on the Meaning of “Search” In Regard to Papers?  -- collaborating with Amanda Black and Maria Kostromitina, PhD students in Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University

Presented Wednesday, April 21
Webcast Link - All Five Presentations (2 hours0

4:10
Amy Totenberg, District Judge, United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia 
Jeffrey S. Sutton, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit     
Lawrence Solan, Don Forchelli Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition, Brooklyn Law School 

Presentations (assisted by Haoshan Ren, PhD student in Applied Linguistics, Georgia State University) 
4:10: Christine Williams, Interpreting the Second Amendment: The Right to Keep and Bear Versus the Right to Carry 
4:30: Robert Brawner, “Keep Arms”—A Corpus Based Analysis of the Second Amendment’s Original Meaning 
  
5:00 Session 
David Nahmias, Presiding Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia 
Stephen Louis A. Dillard, Presiding Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia 
Edward Finegan, Professor of Linguistics and Law, Emeritus, University of Southern California 

Presentations (assisted by Haoshan Ren, PhD student in Applied Linguistics, Georgia State University) 
5:00: Abigail Coker, Corpus Linguistics and The Ordinary Meaning of the Appointments Clause’s “Inferior Officers”
5:20: Alex Garrett, The Original Meaning of the Guarantee Clause 
5:40: Christopher Bishop, The Privileges or Immunities Clause: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Original Public Meaning