More and more, judges are seeing the assessment of ordinary meaning as an empirical matter—an inquiry into the way legal words or phrases are commonly ...
That’s finding of some new research by linguistics experts at Roma Tre University in Rome, Italy, a finding that’s both fascinating and, in these days of rampant disinformation, somewhat disturbing.
Michel DeGraff, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes his proposed seminar was rejected because of his pro-Palestinian views. His department says otherwise.