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An Emoji Legal Dictionary, Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer, Ashley Cangro Jan 2022

An Emoji Legal Dictionary, Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer, Ashley Cangro

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Article is the first to provide a legal emoji dictionary. We have reviewed over 100 cases to provide a legal definition of emojis as interpreted by U.S. case law. Our Article will have three parts. Part I offers a brief overview of the history of emojis and their increasing prevalence in U.S. case law, Part II highlights cases that have wrestled with emoji interpretation; and finally, Part III presents a detailed database of the emojis parties have introduced in courts of law with their legal interpretations--largely through context.