Corpus RLD - corpus de uso de recursos lingüísticos en el derecho español

RLD corpus is a collection of cases where the Spanish High Court and the Constitutional Court Lords or Ladies Justice ("Jueces del Supremo") have turned to Spanish dictionaries and grammar as the linguistic authority to write court judgments. The four main stages followed in the building process of the corpus, (i) design, (ii) implementation, (iii) revision and (iv) publication, are thoroughly explained. The aim of this corpus, which includes 1940 court judgments issued between the years 2012 and 2018, is to provide a representative and empirically adequate sample of data of the use of dictionaries and grammar as linguistic authority in Spanish jurisprudence. This corpus comes to fill a gap in the studies of Language and Law: on the one hand, the lack of large shared corpora of legal texts, available for any researcher or research group interested in this issue, and, on the other hand, the need to analyze empirically the use of dictionaries and grammar in the court judgments of the Spanish High Court and the Constitutional Court.