Linguistic Justice

• Provides a comprehensive understanding of how and why international law influences language policy
• Addresses the contentious issue of cultures with minority languages being potentially disadvantaged by an international sphere increasingly dominated by the use of English
• Examines regional developments, including reports of the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
• Offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on international law by the application of Pierre Bourdieu's sociological work on language to the field

Readership: Academics and postgraduate students of international law, law and linguistics, and the sociology of law; linguists.

Jacqueline Mowbray, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney

Jacqueline Mowbray is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sydney. She also teaches on the European Regional Master's Degree in Democracy and Human Rights in South-East Europe, based in Sarajevo. She is a graduate of the Universities of Queensland (BA/LLB (Hons)), Melbourne (LLM) and Cambridge (LLM (Hons), PhD).

Introduction
1: Language in Education: Context and Complexity
2: Language in Culture and the Media: Complexity and Change
3: Language and Work: Systematic Disadvantage
4: Language and the State: The Politics of Language
5: Language and Participation in Public Life: Democracy and Doxa
Conclusion