The International Journal of Legal English is a refereed publication which provides both on-line access and hard copy volumes to all those involved in the research, teaching and learning of Legal English Communication. This is a wide-ranging field examining how Legal English language teaching and learning is structured, how meanings and ideas are formed and encoded, how they are communicated and represented, and how they are decoded and interpreted. It is a rapidly developing social sciences discipline which is increasingly reaching across into other disciplinary areas. The Journal will represent this dynamism and seeks to provide a platform for publication of studies from academics, teachers of law and law students.