Names, Naming, and the Law: Onomastics, Identity, Power, and Policy

Across many social and commercial domains, governments regulate the official names used to identify individuals, groups, places, companies & products, and even diseases. This innovative volume investigates the relationship between names and the law, with its significant implications for identity and status.

I. M. Nick holds a BA (Germanics); BSc (Clinical/Abnormal Psychology); MA (German Linguistics); MSc (Forensic and Investigative Psychology); PhD and the German ＂Habilitation＂ (English Linguistics). Her onomastic research focusses on anthroponymy, identity, and language-policy. A past President of the American Name Society (ANS), she’s Editor-in-Chief of Names: A Journal of Onomastics.