Joy Steigler-Herms

Research assistant and Doctoral Candidate in Subproject B02 "How and Why Do Courts Cite? Citations and References in Sentences of the German Federal Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Canada"

CRC 1385 "Law and Literature"
Domplatz 6
Room 216
Phone: +49 251 83-27928
joy.steigler@uni-muenster.de

  • Research areas

    • Forensic Linguistics & Legal Linguistics
    • Sociolinguistics, esp. Language Attitudes
    • Legal Language
    • Intertextuality

  • Vita

    • since 2020: Research Fellow at the CRC 1385
    • 2018: Admittance to the Graduate School Empirical and Applied Linguistics, University of Münster
    • 2014-2017: Master's Degree Programme in Language, Literature, Culture: German Linguistics, French Studies, and Literary Studies, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen
    • 2011-2014: Bachelor's Degree Programme German and Romance Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt

  • Publications

    Papers

    1. "Wie und warum zitieren Gerichte?" RECHTS|EMPIRIE (13.12.2021). https://rechtsempirie.de/10.25527/re.2021.12/wie-und-warum-zitieren-gerichte/.

    Articles

    1. "Rechtslinguistik." In: Enzyklopädie Recht und Literatur Online (accepted).
    2. "Zitat." In: Enzyklopädie Recht und Literatur Online (accepted, with Laura Witmann).

  • Talks

    1. "Wie und warum zitieren Gerichte? Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Rekonstruktion von Zitatfunktionalisierungen am Beispiel verfassungsrechtlicher Entscheidungen." Winterschool Innbruck, 11/2022.

    2. "How and why do courts quote? Quotations and References in the Verdicts of the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) and the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC)." Conference of the International Law and Language Association (ILLA), Alicante, 09/2021.

    3. "Credibility Attribution: On the Effect of Linguistic Features on the Evaluation of Written Witness Statements." Conference of the International Law and Language Association (ILLA), Alicante, 09/2021.

    4. "Zur Relation von Sprachprestige und Zeugenglaubhaftigkeit." Conference of the Society for Applied Linguistics, Halle, 19.09.2019.