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 …

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 …