Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Black's 12th ed. is out!

Thomson Reuters announces "the release of Black’s Law Dictionary, 12th Edition. It features 2,500 new terms, including definitions of more than 70,000 law-related words and phrases, plus over 5,000 scholarly and judicial quotations on legal terminology.

Every page in the 12th edition of this iconic dictionary has been supplemented and revised. Among the new terms in this edition are deepfake, ghost gun, make-my-day statute, and shadow docket. The greatly expanded 12th edition is the most comprehensive English-language law dictionary ever compiled.

Chief Editor Bryan A. Garner, long regarded as the world's leading legal lexicographer, has been at the helm of Black’s Law Dictionary since the 7th edition was published in 1999."

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