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Explaining the Law to Others: Message Received… and Understood! (October 21^st and 22^nd, 2010)

The conference, at the Centre Mont-Royal de Montréal will be a milestone event, and promises to make a concrete contribution to the development and exchange of expertise in the area of plain language and the law. This conference is geared to professionals working in legal fields. For more information, go to http://www.colloque.educaloi.qc.ca/en/

Clarity

The 2010 Clarity conference will take place in Lisbon from 12-14 October, 2010. Clarity is an international organization that promotes plain legal language. For more, go to http://www.clarity2010.com/home_en.html

The 9^th International Roundtable for Semiotics of Law (IRSL 2010)

3-6 September 2010 - Poznań

Legal Rules, Moral Norms and Democratic Principles

Conveners:

Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, University of Łódź, Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk

Conference Venue:

Department of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University & PTPN, Poznań

The 9th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law invites all interested in problems concerning Legal Rules, Moral Norms and Democratic Principles to take part in our meeting in Poznań (Poland). The perspective of considerations – whether it is purely semiotic, legal, philosophical, sociological, cultural, sociolinguistic etc. – is free to be chosen by each participant.

We invite everyone who would be interested to participate in The 9th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law to send us an application till the 1st of May 2010. It should be prepared in either English or French (max 300 words) and sent by e-mail to bartwoj@op.pl; karolinacern@yahoo.com; juchaczp@amu.edu.pl and to Anne Wagner at valwagnerfr@yahoo.com .

Selected papers will be published in a special annual issue of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (http://www.springer.com/).

European Legal English Teachers’ Association

The European Legal English Teachers' Association (EULETA) was formed by teachers, writers, lawyers and academics to promote continuing professional development for teachers of legal English.

EULETA 2010 Conference

We are pleased to announce that the 2010 EULETA Conference will be held at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany. 3rd - 5th September, 2010

Visit the EULETA website at www.euleta.org or contact Matt Firth - matthew.firth@unisg.ch.

Summer Institute of Jurilinguistics

The Summer Institute of Jurilinguistics will be held on August 13, 2010 at the Salon du Chancelier, Moncton University, Moncton, New Brunswick. You can sign up today on this web site:

http://www.mcgill.ca/crdpcq/registration/

Please notice that entrance is free but registration is mandatory.

26-30 July 2010, Aston University

The Conference will bring together representatives from every sphere of the public service interpreting community: academics, interpreting practitioners, employers, trainers, policy makers, service providers and service recipients to shed new light on the vital role that public service/community interpreters play in our world.

The theme of the conference is Interpreting in a Changing Landscape. The aim is to explore political, legal, human rights, trans-national, economic, socio-cultural, and sociolinguistic aspects of public service/community interpreting.

Website for additional information.

Second International Workshop on Forensic Linguistics/Language and the Law:

present dimensions and new perspectives and challenges.

Date: July 9, 2010

Venue: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Campus de la ComunicaciÃ³ - Auditorium

Roc Boronat, 138

08018 Barcelona (Spain)

The Second international workshop on Forensic Linguistics/Language and the Law: present dimensions and new perspectives and challenges is a one-day conference event which will take place on the occasion of the official opening of ForensicLab to be held on July 9, 2010.

Workshop webpage: http://www.iula.upf.edu/agenda/wfl2010/index.htm

The Language of Law:
pulling together different strands and disciplines
International Workshop

FACULTY OF LAW
DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL SCIENCES

17-18 June 2010
Santa Maria Capua Vetere – Caserta
Italy

The Law Faculty of the Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli (University of Naples 2) – Department of Legal Sciences - English Language Chair - is hosting its first international workshop to bring together linguists, legal scholars and practitioners, to explore the issues of language in the law in English and other European and non-European languages, cultures and systems. We therefore invite colleagues to submit papers on theoretical and applied perspectives of language in a variety of areas of law (civil, criminal, administrative, European/international), in academic, professional and institutional contexts. Papers may address aspects of language and law, also from an interdisciplinary perspective, on any of the following broad theme areas:

● legal discourse and genre, including ethnographic or corpus-based analyses of legal discourse in the media
● power relations and ideology in the law
● cross-cultural legal communication
● pedagogy of legal language (LSP, ESP, EAP)
● legal translation and interpreting
● forensic linguistics
● plain language and the law

Abstract Submission
Contributors are invited to send an anonymous abstract in MS Word (12pt) of not more than 300 words (excluding references) by no later than 15st December 2009 to the following address: languageoflaw2010@unina2.it

Conference website

LawTerm 2010, May 28-30, 2010

1st International Workshop on Legal Terminology hosted by the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Łódź

The original deadline expires on 20th of February but has been extended for ILLA members until the end of February. The meeting website is:
http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/englang/events/workshop-on-legal-terminology

International Conference on Legal Linguistics
Law and Language in International Partnerships and Conflicts

Rarely do researchers and practitioners in both law and language have the opportunity to get together and share their latest insights. Lapland and Rovaniemi now stand ready to provide a forum conducive to this end.

Dates: 17-20 March 2010

Abstract deadline: 15 December 2009

Venue: University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

For conference details, please visit the following link: www.ulapland.fi/LegalLinguistics2010

West Coast Roundtable on Language and Law

The Second West Coast Roundtable on Language and Law will be held on September 25, 2009 at Seattle University. The Roundtable offers an opportunity to present preliminary work, share data, and discuss contemplated research or work in progress in a relaxed and collegial small group setting. If you are interested in attending or for further information, please contact Janet Ainsworth, Seattle University School of Law, jan@seattleu.edu.

Summer Institute of Jurilinguistics

August 31, 2009

Practitioners in the fields of legal translation, terminology, law and language, and jurilinguistics, and anyone who is interested in the field, are invited to attend. This full-day event is free.

Notre programme pour l’Institut d’été de jurilinguistique, qui aura lieu le 31 août prochain, à Montréal, est maintenant en ligne !

Réunissant des spécialistes de la traduction juridique, de la terminologie et de la jurilinguistique, ce troisième Institut saura plaire à tous les passionné(e)s des mots du droit !

http://www.mcgill.ca/crdpcq/activities/upcomingevents/

http://francais.mcgill.ca/crdpcq/activities/upcomingevents/

8^th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL 2009)

(2-5 December 2009)

TRANSPARENCY, CONTROL AND POWER:

ISSUES IN LEGAL SEMIOTICS

Convenor: Vijay K. Bhatia

Conference Venue: Department of English, City University of Hong Kong .

Proposals in either English or French (max 300 words) should be sent by e-mail by the 1^st of May 2009 to Vijay K. Bhatia at enbhatia@cityu.edu.hk and to Anne Wagner at valwagnerfr@yahoo.com

24th World Congress of Law and Social Philosophy
15-20 September 2009, Beijing.

Workshop title: Law and Language: Explorations on Courtroom Discourse.

Convenors:
Le Cheng, City University of Hong Kong/China University of Political Sciences and Law (chengle163@hotmail.com)
Anne Wagner, Universite du Littoral Co´te d'Opale (valwagnerfr@yahoo.com)

Deadline for Abstracts
Please send an abstract (1000-4000 words) to chengle163@hotmail.com before 15 June, 2009.

Date for Notification
15 July, 2009

This workshop aims to focus on an important aspect of language and law, namely, language and discourse in the courtroom. Courtroom language and discourse provides a substantial mine of data for jurisprudence, sociology, linguistics and other related disciplines. There is a growing interest in the theme courtroom discourse� in both the academic field and the legal professionals.
The appeal of this workshop will show the actionable knowledge it could bring to this field of research and practice. The workshopwill reflect the interdisciplinary nature of law and discourse study in courtroom and would like to focus on a comparative viewpoint. The themes include but are not limited to:
- Analysis of judge's language (e.g. judge's summation, judge's instruction)
- Lawyer's strategies and manipulation in court examinations
- Analysis of prosecution's language
- Linguistic evidence in courtroom
- Expert witness in courtroom
- Contrast between courtroom discourse and other types of discourse

All the abstracts and papers for the workshop will be published on the congress website: www.ivr2009.com.

XVII European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes:
Methods and Aims - (re.)Conceptualising LSP Reseach

Aarhus School of Business, Unversity of Aarhus, August 17--21, 2009. www.asb.dk/LSP2009
This conference is not about law, strictly speaking, but includes discussion of the language of professionals, including lawyers.

International Association of Forensic Linguists’ 9th Biennial Conference

The conference will take place between Monday July 6 and Thursday July 9 2009 at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Topics will include:

courtroom interaction
police interviews
courtroom interpreting and translating
the readability/comprehensibility of legal documents
the analysis/interpretation of legal texts
the communicative challenges of ‘vulnerable’ witnesses
language minorities and the legal system
the use of linguistic evidence in court
authorship/speaker identification
the teaching/testing of forensic linguistics/language and law

Abstracts are due November 14, 2008

The Organising Committee for the event are: Tessa van Charldorp, Fleur van der Houwen, Martha Komter, Keun Sliedrecht and Petra Sneijder, all of the Department of Language and Communication, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Website: click here.

If you have any further questions about the conference, please direct them to Dr Fleur van der Houwen (email: f.vander.houwen@let.vu.nl).

Fourth Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Comparative Legi-Linguistics

The Institute of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University will hold an international conference devoted to language and the law. Our aim is to provide a forum for discussion in those scientific fields where linguistic and legal interests converge, and to facilitate integration between linguists, computer scientists and lawyers from all around the world.
The conference will be held over 3 days, from 2nd to 4th July 2009 in Poznan, Poland. We invite papers on the following topics:

FORENSIC LINGUISTICS IN GENERAL
LEGAL TRANSLATION AND COURT INTERPRETING
LEGAL LANGUAGES AND LEGAL DISCOURSE
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
HISTORY OF LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEMS
LAWS ON LANGUAGE

Session proposals and any questions should be submitted to the following address: lingua.legis@gmail.com

Presentation slots should not exceed 30 minutes (20 minutes long presentation plus 10 minutes for questions). Papers from the conference will be published.

Abstracts of the papers should be submitted by the end of February 2009 to the following address: lingua.legis@gmail.com

http://www.lingualegis.amu.edu.pl/konferencja/Konf_ang/Index.html

Researching Language and the Law: Intercultural Perspectives

June 18-20, 2009, in Bergamo, Italy

For website, click here.

Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association
Denver, Colorado USA
May 28 - 31, 2009

Peter Tiersma, Bethany Dumas, and Larry Solan will be organizing several language and law panels for this conference. It generally attracts an international audience of scholars--legal, sociological, anthropological, linguistic, etc.--and is a good place to interact with people interested in interdisciplinary work that relates to law. For more information, go to http://lawandsociety.org/ann_mtg/am09/call.htm
Peter Tiersma will organize the panels this year. If you would like to participate on one of our panels, you must send the following to me before November 26, 2008:

paper title

abstract consisting of between 100-250 words

I will then let you know in a few days or so whether we can place your proposed talk on one of our language and law panels (which will depend on subject matter and the number of available slots). You will then need to submit your paper by December 8 to the LSA with the session number that I will provide you. This will guarantee that your talk will be on one of the language and law sessions that we are organizing.
If we cannot accommodate your talk, I will also let you know and you will be able to submit it as an individual paper (also by December 8), and it will be assigned to an appropriate panel by the LSA conference organizers.

Call for Contributions

Treatise on Legal Visual Semiotics

Reference Work

2 volumes (1,000 pages each)

Publisher: SPRINGER

EDITORS: Anne Wagner, Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy, and Richard Sherwin

Expression of interest should be addressed by e-mail to valwagnerfr@yahoo.com

Date of submission: Abstracts of 2 pages to be submitted by 15 January 2009

Professor Eric Landowski, Research Director at the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF) and affiliated to the CNRS and coeditor of the Nouveaux Actes Sémiotiques AND Professor Bernard Jackson, Alliance Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester, two of the early pioneers of law and semiotics.

Topics to be explored include the central debates in legal semiotics and the progress/key developments in the last decade; how we acquire knowledge in the field including the role of different research ‘approaches’; method, methodology and epistemology in legal semiotics; the relevant contribution of different theoretical traditions in legal semiotics; new approaches to studying legal texts and legal discourse in different legal cultures; the promises and limits of deconstructionism in studying the law, legal cultures; the political and/or ideological uses of particular approaches in legal semiotics.

Call for Papers - Deadline February 15^th: Abstracts in either English or French (max. 300 words) should be sent only by e-mail to IRSL2008@univ-littoral.fr Decisions will be made by early April.

INTERNATIONAL LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION

50th ANNUAL CONFERENCE, APRIL 15-17, 2005

JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE,
THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Major Theme: LANGUAGE AND THE LAW

Featured Speakers:
Roger W. Shuy, Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University
John M. Conley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Special panel: "Language and the Criminal Law"
Lawrence Solan, Convenor: Brooklyn Law School
Peter Tiersma, Loyola Law School
Janet Cotterill, Cardiff University, UK.

Linguists as expert witnesses, analyzing and presenting linguistic evidence
2. Courtroom discourse / language of judges and juries
3. Language policy planning
4. Linguistic change and legal policy planning development
5. Trademark language in advertising and the law
6. Legal definitions and libel
7. The role of plagiarism with respect to the law
8. The implications of "legalese" versus standard language in the courtroom
9. The interpretation of dialects with respect to the law
10. Linguistics and Common Roman Law
11. Translation and the Law / Courtroom interpreters
13. Misconceptions about Language and the Law

Local host and Co-chair:

Effie Papatzikou Cochran,
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
(e-mail:efthymiaC@aol.com and ecochran@jjay.cuny.edu).

Tel: (212) 237-8592 and 212-877-8711

Co-chair: Josef Fioretta, Hofstra University
(e-mail:josef.fioretta@hofstra.edu). Tel: (516) 463-5440

Conference Coordinator: Johanna J. Woltjer
511 West 112 Street # 14 New York, NY 10025-1634, USA
(e-mail:jwoltjer@earthlink.net). Tel. (212) 749-3366

An interdisciplinary conference on legal communication was held in Warsaw on 2-4 December 2004.
There is some more information available in Word format.

For details, contact

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
May 26-30, 2004

Renaissance Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Information: www.lawandsociety.org

The Collaborative Research Network on Language and Law organized four panels on language and law:

1.   Juries and the Problems of Language
2.    Courtroom Language
3.    Legal Interpretation
4.   Comparative Perspectives

The conference will begin after lunch on 4th July and will finish on the afternoon of the 5th July and will be held at Gregynog Hall, a beautiful stately home in mid-Wales owned by the University of Wales.