2 Introduction
society seeking to be truly democratic. Yet, at the same time, we can see a genius
to some aspects of this at once abstract and concrete legal language.
We begin, in Part I, by setting the scene for the rest of the book. Chapter 1
outlines the central conclusions of the study and then takes the reader into the law
school classroom, stepping into the shoes of law students who are beginning to learn
legal language. Chapter 2 provides a more detailed statement of the study’s research
agenda and of the cross-disciplinary perspectives that inform it. Chapter 3 explains
the methodology used and sketches an initial profile of the data.