Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Language and Law - new applications of formal linguistics -- Part 1. Understanding the law: The contribution of semantics and psycholinguistics -- Law matters, syntax matters and semantics matters -- Improving the comprehensibility of German court decisions -- Understanding a Riester-pension: A reply to Becker and Klein (2008) -- Part 2. Identifying the criminal: The contribution of phonetics and text/corpus linguistics -- Forensic phonetics and the influence of speaking style on global measures of fundamental frequency -- Phonetic cues to speaker age: A longitudinal study -- Does speech reveal one's age? On the use of gerontolinguistic topics for forensic authorship analysis -- Part 3. Organizing legal systems: The contribution of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence -- Definition extraction from court decisions using computational linguistic technology -- Making sense of legal texts -- Interfacing between different legal systems using the examples of N-Lex and EUR-Lex -- The LOIS project and beyond -- Part 4. Multilingualism and the law: The contribution of translation studies -- Multilingualism in the European Union Status quo and perspectives: The reference language model -- Drafting and interpretation of EU law - paradoxes of legal multilingualism -- Multilingual law drafting in Switzerland -- A modular approach to legal drafting and translation -- Backmatter