2021 Randall, J., J. Cherry, & A. Montag. Collaborations in the Courthouse: Making Legal Language Accessible. Revue Linguistique et Referential Interculturel (Linguistics and Cultural Diversity). La Linguistique à la croisée des sciences (Linguistics at the Crossroads of Sciences). Vol. 2, number 1, 2-12.
2021 Randall, Janet. How to Talk So Juries Listen. 95 Chicago-Kent Law Review, 647.
2019 MacNeal, A., K. Fiallo, A. Jones, S. Jones, S. Laureano, M. Monjarrez, & Y. Xu, "Sounding black": The legal implications of linguistic profiling. [Online]: Northeastern University Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 4.
2019 Randall, J. How Just is Justice? Ask a Psycholinguist. In Carlson, Katy, Charles Clifton Jr. & Janet Dean Fodor, eds. Grammatical Approaches to Language Processing- Essays in Honor of Lyn Frazier. Studies in Theoretical Pyscholinguistics, Springer, NY, 275-308.
2014 Randall, J. Tackling “legalese”: How linguistics can simplify legal language and increase access to justice. Language Use & Linguistic Structure (Olomouc Modern Language Series), Olomouc, 231-46. [Online] https://dx.doi.org/10.5507/ff.14.24440606.
Research Summaries
2017 Randall, J., Y. Xu, K. Fiallo, & H. Emerson. Improving Jury Instructions: The Effect of Linguistic and Procedural Factors. Proceedings of the American Psychology-Law Society Annual Meeting. Seattle.
2015 Randall, J. Improving juror comprehension: Reading while listening. Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting. Portland, 1-5.
2014 Randall, J. & L. Graf. Linguistics meets "legalese": syntax, semantics, and jury instruction reform. [Extended 5p. abstract]. Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting. Minneapolis.
2021 Randall, J., Manav Mehta, Sanjna Patel, & Rajvi Shah S. The California Jury Instruction Project: Kidnapping, A Pilot Study. Northeastern University Linguistics Research Forum, December.
2020 Randall, J., S. Bonnin, A. Robbins, S. Laureano, Y, Xu. Factors influencing jury instruction comprehension: New insights from working memory 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March.
2018 Randall, J., A. MacNeal, H. Emerson, K. Fiallo, S. Laureano & Y. Xu. How Just is Justice? Ask a Psycholinguist. Lynschrift18, an Homage to UMass Linguist Lyn Frazier. Amherst, MA.
2018 Randall, J. , A. MacNeal, Y. Xu, H. Emerson & K. Fiallo. Jargon and Justice: Using Linguistics to Improve Legal Language. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City. January.
2018 Randall, J., S. Laureano, M. Monjarrez, K. Fiallo, A. MacNeal, Y. Xu, S. Jones, A. Isaacs, B. Rubin, A. Jones, R. Smith, & F. Reis. Law, meet Linguistics. Showcase: Expanding the Reach of Linguistics: Collaborations with Other Disciplines and Beyond. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City. January.
2017 Randall, J., Y. Xu, K. Fiallo, H. Emerson & A. MacNeal. Improving Jury Instructions: The Effect of Linguistic and Procedural Factors. American Psychology-Law Society Annual Meeting. Seattle. March.
2017 Randall, J., A. MacNeal, H. Emerson, K. Fiallo, S. Laureano & Y. Xu. Beyond undergraduates: Strengthening psycholinguistic studies – and their impact – using MTurk. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Austin. January.
2016 Randall, J., Y. Xu, K. Fiallo, A. MacNeal, H. Emerson, & S. Laureano . “The preponderance of the WHAT?”: Factors in the comprehension of jury instructions. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston.
2016 Randall, J., H. Emerson, A. Dore, J. Tan, A. MacNeal, Y. Xu, K. Fiallo, & A. McPherson. Reading along helps: an MTurk study on jury instruction comprehension. Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo (RISE) 2016, Northeastern U, Boston, April.
2015 Randall, J. & K. Fiallo. Improving juror comprehension: reading while listening. American Society of Trial Consultants Annual Conference. Nashville. May.
2015 Randall, J., L. Graf & N. Clarke. Improving juror comprehension: reading while listening. Linguistic Society of America annual meeting. Portland, Oregon. January.
2014 Randall, J. & L. Graf. Linguistics meets "legalese": syntax, semantics, and jury instruction reform. Linguistic Society of America annual meeting. Minneapolis. January.
2021 Randall, J., J. Cherry & A. Montag. Collaborations in the Courthouse: Making Legal Language Accessible. Linguistics at the Crossroads of Sciences: Disciplinary Break–Up & Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco, March. [virtual presentation - covid].
2019 Randall, J., L. Butz, A. MacNeal, R. Smith, S. Bonnin, R. Semple, J. Cherry, Y. Xu, S. Laureano, M. Snelson. Legalese, meet linguistics. International Association of Forensic Linguistics Conference, Melbourne, Australia. July.
2019 Randall, J. In pursuit of comprehension: Law, meet Linguistics. Workshop for new judges, Flaschner Judicial Institute, Boston. (Organized by Justice Douglas Wilkins.) The Flaschner Judicial Institute provides educational/ professional development programming for judges. May.
2019 Randall, J. The Linguistics & Law Lab: a collaborative research space. The Civil Jury Project Roundtable for Academic Advisors, NYU Law School, April.
2018 Randall, J. “Just” Language: Linguistics & Law 101. A 2-hour workshop. Department of Linguistics & Translation, City University of Hong Kong. August.
2017 Randall, J., Y. Xu, K. Fiallo, H. Emerson & A. MacNeal. Improving Jury Instructions: The Effect of Linguistic and Procedural Factors. American Psychology-Law Society Annual Meeting. Seattle. March.
2017 Randall, J. The preponderance of the WHAT? Legalese, meet Linguistics. The Syntax of Justice: Law, Language, Access & Exclusion Conference. Northeastern U. School of Law, Boston. March.
2013 Randall, J. Plain English Jury Instructions for Massachusetts: first steps. Linguistic Society of America Annual meeting. Boston. January.