Court of Canada held in Société des Acadiens that language rights were entrenched in the Canadian Charter of Rights and …. This decision had the effect of bringing about a suspension of court challenges by language minorities. Four recent court … Restructuring Commission of the Ontario Superior Court, showing that finally we are entering an era where language minorities can …

International standards setting organizations have different language selection policies. These policies have, besides … use of English only for communication.. The obvious dominance of the English language is seen as a necessity, rather than … language selection policies in international standards setting organizations are presented …

EU under alternative voting rules. We argue that a six-language regime would be a reasonable intermediate choice: a lower …

Can language be centrally planned and controlled? Friedrich Hayek considered language the archetypal example of … spontaneous order, yet many countries adopt a planned order approach to language, attempting to centrally plan and control it … through language academies. I collect original data on the regulation of language across countries, and show that countries …

This paper investigates the impact of official language policies on education using state formation in India. Colonial … provinces consisted of some districts where the official language matched the district's language and some where it did not … mitigate the impact of mismatched language policies …

This article addresses the question of the effectiveness and the fairness of the language policy of the European Union …, by carrying out a comparative analysis of four alternative language regimes. A monolingual language policy based on … English only, a trilingual language regime founded on English, French and German, and finally an oligarchic language policy …

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from … bilingualism on earnings while Russian was the official state language in the 1990s. Surprisingly, the Kazakh language continues to …

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from … bilingualism on earnings while Russian was the official state language in the 1990s. Surprisingly, the Kazakh language continues to …

The essay gives an overview of how language planning and language policy can be motivated and analyzed by economic … methods. It is discussed what type of value language-related goods possess and what type of goods they are. Properties like … degrees of rivalry, exclusion, and shielding and how they can justify language planning are treated. A cots-benefit approach …