ABSTRACT This article introduces this Themed Issue, Linguistic Diversity as a Challenge to Legal Policy, and reports a small, peer-reviewed study of the integration of research about language issues in legal contexts in Australian legal education. The article explains that interdisciplinary law and linguistics research has emerged to better understand potential inequalities and injustices. This research speaks to concerns shared across many legal systems because both multilingualism and inter-lingual prejudice are common phenomena across nations. The Themed Issue's eleven contributions draw scholarly attention to specific, current problems in legal contexts which relate to language practices and/or policies about language, arranged around the familiar three branches of the state (legislature, executive, judiciary). The Themed Issue is aimed at endowing readers with motivation and basic knowledge to tread new, language-aware routes towards solutions based on collaborative research and policy reform. In regards to integrating such research into legal education, our NSW and ACT study found few course offerings which focus on an intersection of linguistic and legal scholarship. We therefore suggest the development of electives or the inclusion of such material in core subjects (timely given the ‘Priestly 11’ compulsory subjects are under review at the time of writing).

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语言多样性是改进法律政策的挑战和机遇

摘要 本文介绍了这一主题问题，语言多样性作为对法律政策的挑战，并报告了一项经过同行评审的小型研究，该研究将有关语言问题的研究整合到澳大利亚法律教育中的法律环境中。文章解释说，跨学科的法律和语言学研究已经出现，以更好地理解潜在的不平等和不公正。这项研究谈到了许多法律体系共有的担忧，因为多语制和跨语种偏见都是各国普遍存在的现象。主题问题的 11 篇文章引起了学术界对与语言实践和/或语言政策相关的法律环境中特定的当前问题的关注，这些问题围绕着熟悉的三个国家部门（立法机关、行政机关、司法机关）进行安排。主题问题旨在为读者提供动力和基础知识，让他们能够在合作研究和政策改革的基础上探索新的、语言感知的途径来寻求解决方案。关于将此类研究整合到法律教育中，我们的 NSW 和 ACT 研究发现很少有课程提供专注于语言和法律学术交叉的课程。因此，我们建议开发选修课或将此类材料纳入核心科目（及时考虑到“Priestly 11”必修科目在撰写本文时正在审查中）。我们的 NSW 和 ACT 研究发现很少有课程提供专注于语言和法律学术交叉的课程。因此，我们建议开发选修课或将此类材料纳入核心科目（及时考虑到“Priestly 11”必修科目在撰写本文时正在审查中）。我们的 NSW 和 ACT 研究发现很少有课程提供专注于语言和法律学术交叉的课程。因此，我们建议开发选修课或将此类材料纳入核心科目（及时考虑到“Priestly 11”必修科目在撰写本文时正在审查中）。