This study had two main goals: first, to analyze a corpus of 1200 law research articles and identify the most commonly used words, and second, to compare this list to Coxhead's Academic Word List. Theresearcherused a corpus of 4,114,328 words and set a frequency cutoff of 120 occurrences. After analyzing the corpus and excluding function words, bibliographies, tables, headers, and footnotes, a list of 3730 academic words for the field of law was created. The resulting word list was then subjected to expert review and validation by a panel of law professionals to ensure that the words on the list are relevant, useful, and appropriate for academic context. 2541 words were deemed unsuitable and consequently retained from the final word list. On the other hand, 1189 words successfully passed the validation process and were approved for inclusion in the finalized academic word list.372 word families were identified .Of these, 121 word families(32.52%) overlapped with Coxhead’s Academic Word List(AWL), while the remaining 251 wordfamilies( 67.48%) were unique to the Law Academic Word List, highlighting the specialized terminology related to law field. This study has important implications for course designers, ESP experts, authors, and students studying law at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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