Peter Meijes Tiersma

Publications

• Asking Jurors to Do the Impossible
  5 TENN. J. L. & POL'Y (2010) · Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy · 2010

• The Textualization of Precedent
  82 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1187 (2006) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2006
• Did Clinton Lie?: Defining "Sexual Relations"
  79 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 927 (2004) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2004
• Hearing Voices: Speaker Identification in Court
  54 UC L.J. 373 (2003) · UC Law Journal · 2003
• The Rocky Road to Legal Reform: Improving the Language of Jury Instructions
  66 BROOK. L. REV. 1081 (2001) · Brooklyn Law Review · 2001

• Dictionaries and Death: Do Capital Jurors Understand Mitigation?
  1995 UTAH L. REV. (1995) · Utah Law Review · 1995
• The Ambiguity of Interpretation: Distinguishing Interpretation from Construction
  73 WASH. U. L. REV. 1095 (1995) · Washington University Law Review · 1995
• Reforming the Language of Jury Instructions
  22 HOFSTRA L. REV. (1993) · Hofstra Law Review · 1993
• The Judge as Linguist
  27 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 269 (1993) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 1993

• The Language of Offer and Acceptance: Speech Acts and the Question of Intent
  74 CAL. L. REV. 189 (1986) · California Law Review · 1986