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33 J.L. & Pol'y 1 (2024-2025)

handle is hein.journals/jlawp33 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION: A FESTSCHRIFT FOR PROFESSOR LARRY SOLAN James A. Macleod* It is my privilege to introduce the first of two special Festschrift Symposium issues of the Journal ofLaw and Policy in honor of my former colleague, mentor, and friend, Larry Solan. The Fest at which these pieces were presented took place on November 3, 2023. It was held at Brooklyn Law School, where Larry was an esteemed and beloved faculty member for nearly thirty years. In attendance were Larry's co-authors, colleagues, former students, friends, family, and a veritable who's-who of legal scholars and linguists quite literally from around the world. Throughout Larry's career, pretty much everybody lucky enough to meet him or engage with his work quickly became a fan. And the Fest confirmed: Larry had a lot of fans. The Schrift-this two-issue Symposium-is a testament to Larry's scholarly influence. Larry's work was, without exaggeration, groundbreaking. For newcomers to the study of law and language, the scale of Larry's contributions can be difficult to appreciate. Consider the beginning of Larry's first book, The Language of Judges, published thirty years ago and written while Larry was still a practicing attorney: I first noticed some time ago that judges periodically present in their opinions a linguistic analysis of the legal documents that they have been asked to interpret. I had earlier been trained in linguistics and found this phenomenon both surprising and interesting.' Today, legally trained readers take for granted the relevance of linguistics to legal argumentation and judicial decisionmaking. We're accustomed to the hyper-textualist rhetoric of the current Supreme Court, with its high-stakes parsing of * Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School. 1 LAWRENCE M. SOLAN, THE LANGUAGE OF JUDGES, xi (1993). 1

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