LLC CLE Presentation: The Regulation of Language

About the Presentation
While many view language as the archetypal example of spontaneous order, many countries attempt to centrally plan and control language through language academies. This talk will present original data on the regulation of language across countries and will discuss which countries regulate their language. It appears that countries that try to plan their language also try to plan their law and are more likely to try to plan their economy. Countries that do not try to plan their language do not try to plan their law and are more likely not to try to plan their economy. This talk will discuss the relationship between an underlying cultural attitude towards the two types of order (spontaneous and planned) and the choices we make about law, language, and the economy  Among other issues, it implicates the following: Should law be developed using a top-down or a bottom-up approach?
 
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition

Presenter
Yehonatan Givati
Professor of Law, Hebrew University Law School; Visiting Professor, Brooklyn Law School.

Discussant
Lawrence Solan
Don Forchelli Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition, Brooklyn Law School

CLE Credit Offered
The program provides 1.5 CLE credits in the State of New York. Partial credit is not available. The credits are transitional and non-transitional and the category is Professional Practice. Brooklyn Law School may offer financial assistance to participants who meet certain qualifications and our financial aid policy is available at www.brooklaw.edu/financialaidcle.

Registration
The cost of the program is $30, regardless of whether you attend for CLE credit.
 
The program is free of charge for all faculty and students.

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