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Operational Research: methods and applications Open

Fotios Petropoulos, Gilbert Laporte, Emel Aktaş, Sibel A. Alumur, Claudia Archetti , et al. · 2023

Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include methods, models and algorithms that have been applied to a wide range of contexts. This encyclopedic article consists of two main sections: methods and applications. The f…

Hurdles and horizons of linguistics for social justice Open

Janny H.C. Leung · 2023

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Sedition or Mere Dissent? Linguistic Analysis of a Political Slogan Open

Janny H.C. Leung · 2023

This paper reports the first case in which a linguist served as an expert witness in Hong Kong, a former British colony that has operated as a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since 1997. The dispute wa…

Operational Research: Methods and Applications Open

Fotios Petropoulos, Gilbert Laporte, Emel Aktaş, Sibel A. Alumur, Claudia Archetti , et al. · 2023

Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include a variety of methods, models and algorithms that have been applied to a diverse and wide range of contexts. This encyclopedic article consists of two main sections: method…

Publicity Stunts, Power Play, and Information Warfare in Mediatized Public Confessions Open

Janny H.C. Leung · 2017

Confession has for centuries been known as the queen of evidence. This paper examines an unusual type of confessions – ones that are made in public and out of court, the main target audience of which is not legal enforcement or court offic…

Language and Law Open

Alan Durant, Janny H.C. Leung · 2017

Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law: describes the different registers and genres that make up …

Does the world need more Canada? Legal multilingualism and strategic pluralism Open

Janny H.C. Leung · 2017

Le Canada a la réputation d’être un pays tolérant, caractérisé par \nsa diversité, dont la dualité linguistique constitue un véritable trait national \ndistinctif de sa société pluraliste. Cet article détermine dans quelle mesure \nle bili…

Negotiating Language Status in Multilingual Jurisdictions: Rhetoric and Reality Open

Janny H.C. Leung · 2016

About a quarter of legal jurisdictions in the world operate in more than one language. Despite this, language policies governing the functioning of law in such jurisdictions, other than in the European Union, rarely receive attention in re…

Lay Litigation Behaviour in Postcolonial Hong Kong Courtrooms Open

Janny H.C. Leung · 2015

Many jurisdictions have recently experienced a significant increase in the number of litigants in person (LiPs) in their civil justice systems; related research (e.g. Baldacci, 2006; Moorhead, 2007; Richardson et al., 2012; Zuckerman, 2014…

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