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The 15th
International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL
2014)
June 3-6, 2014
University of Copenhagen
IRSL invites all interested participants to the conference to be
held at the Centre of Excellence for International Courts
(iCourts) at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. The
roundtable welcomes a plurality of approaches, including those
of legal studies, linguistics, philosophy, and social sciences.
Abstracts of max. 300 words can be submitted by February 28th,
2014 to Joanna Jemielniak (Joanna.jemielniak@jur.ku.dk), Anne
Lise Kjær (anne.lise.kjer@jur.ku.dk), and Anne Wagner
(valwagnerfr@yahoo.com).
Website
ERILL Third
International Conference
Language and Law in Social Practice
15-16-17 May, 2014
Caserta, Italy
Conference Venue:
Royal Palace
Caserta
ITALY
The conference is sponsored by ERILL- Education and Research in
Language and Law
English Language Chair, Department of Law
Second University of Naples
Call for Papers
http://www.erill.unina2.it/
Language and the Law - Bridging
the Gaps
Florianopolis, Brazil
December 11-13, 2013
Language and the Law – Bridging the Gaps is the first
International Conference to be jointly sponsored by ALIDI (the
newly formed Association for Language and Law for Speakers of
Portuguese) and the IAFL, (the International Association of
Forensic Linguists). The official languages of the Conference
will be English and Portuguese.
The conference will be jointly hosted by PPGI (the Postgraduate
Programme in English) and CCJ (the Centre for Legal Sciences),
both of the Federal University of Santa Catarina in
Florianopolis, Brazil. Most of the Conference will take place in
the Centre for Communication and Expression on the main
University campus, but we hope that there will be some sessions
in a Court located on the perimeter of the Campus.
We invite Abstracts for both PAPERS and POSTERS on all topics
within the areas of Language and the Law, Interaction in Legal
Settings and Language as Evidence. We also invite proposals for
Themed Colloquiaand Round Tables which will be allotted two-hour
slots. Abstracts and proposals should be submitted
electronically via the Conference website, which will be up and
running at the end of
Marchhttp://www.linguisticaforense.ufsc.br/. We will assume that
the language of the abstract will also be the language of the
presentation.
Abstracts are due by May 15, 2013
Website
European
Legal English Teachers’ Association (EULETA)
Legal English Workshop
28 September 2013
The Language Centre
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Theme: Training our students to use plain English
Call for papers
The European Legal English Teachers' Association (EULETA).
EULETA promotes continuing professional development for teachers
of Legal English.
We organise regular conferences and workshops lead by experts in
the field of Legal English. If you would like to offer a
presentation/workshop/talk on the subject of training plain
English skills at our next workshop, please complete the form
below and return by 31 May 2013 to:
matthew.firth@unisg.ch
Please name the file: EULETA 2013 (PRESENTER NAME).doc
http://www.euleta.de
Roundtable
on Forensic Linguistics
September 7th-‐8th, 2013
Mainz, Germany
The Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics (GSFL) Roundtable
will take place at the end of the 2013 International Summer
School for Forensic Linguistic Analysis, also held in Mainz this
year (September 2nd-‐6th
http://www.forensiclinguistics.eu/ )
Abstracts are invited in all of the following areas:
- Language,the Law,and the Legal Process
- Forensic Linguistics and Education
Undergraduate and graduate students will have an
opportunity to present their work and receive constructive
feedback.
Abstracts are due June 15, 2013 to Dr. I. M. Laversuch Nick at
mavi.yaz@web.de.
English
website
Deutsch
The
Pragmatic Turn: Interpretation and inference in legal
discourse
July 30 – August 1, 2013
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
The conference
will address following four types of issues:
- to what extent are default inferences
current in ordinary language treated differently in legal
discourse, oral and written? Can standard implicatures be
treated as being “in the text”? Which types of implicatures
can and have been treated by interpretative processes as being
“in the text”? What is the legal practice in this regard, and
how can it be made explicit by linguistic analysis?
- if inference
implies accessing language-external information, has legal
practice evolved rules as to which types of external
knowledge are to be accessed and which ones not? Are there
differences and developments from historical and
intercultural perspectives?
- what does the
pragmatic turn in the analysis of legal discourse imply for
any notion of “literal” interpretation?
- on the basis
of the analysis of these questions, to what extent is it
possible to define legal genres by their characteristic
types of inferences, in contradistinction to genres from
other domains and in methodological contradistinction from
definitions by linguistic surface forms?
Convenors: Janet Giltrow (University of British Columbia,
Vancouver) and Dieter Stein (University of Düsseldorf)
One page abstracts to be submitted to:
Janet Giltrow or Dieter Stein
by February 10, 2013.
Eighth
Conference on Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and
Comparative Legilinguistics
June 28-June 30, 2013
Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poznan, Poland
Topics include:
- FORENSIC LINGUISTICS IN GENERAL
- LEGAL TRANSLATION AND COURT
INTERPRETING
- LEGAL LANGUAGES AND LEGAL DISCOURSE
- HISTORY OF LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEMS
- LAWS ON LANGUAGES
Website
Email: lingua. legis@gmail.com
Making Linguistics Relevant to
the Law
International Association of
Forensic Linguists
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
Mexico City
24-27 June, 2013
The International Association of Forensic
Linguists (IAFL) invites submissions for the eleventh biennial
conference, to be hosted by The Language Engineering Group (GIL)
at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
City.
The conference offers a forum for presentations on
all aspects of forensic linguistics and language and law,
including but not limited to the following:
- Language and the Legal Process
- Language as Evidence
- Language, Crime and Law
- Research / Teaching
- Computational Linguistics
- Other Related Topics
Conference webpage
Contact email: iafl11@iingen.unam.mx
Abstracts are due by October 26, 2012
The Third
International Conference on Law, Language and Discourse
Legal Discourse: Forms and Functions
Shanghai, 3-6 June 2013
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
The Third International Conference on
Law, Language and Discourse (LLD3), associated with
Multicultural Association of Law and Language, invites
theoretical studies, applicational cases, and relevant
work-in-progress papers related to the theme - "Legal Discourse:
Forms and Functions", including, but not limited to:
1. Law and Argumentation
2. Law and Discourse Analysis
3. Law and Literature
4. Law and Philosophy
5. Law and Systemic Functional Linguistics
6. Law and Corpus Linguistics
7. Law and Information Technology
8. Law and Logic
9. Law and Semantics
10. Law and Society
Abstracts (300-500 words) should be sent to Chao Meng
(mengchaoo@hotmail.com) before 31 Jan 2013.
Conference website
The
Third International Conference on Law, Translation and
Culture
Hangzhou, China
31 May-2 June 2013
The themes include but are not limited to the
following strands:
Strand I: Language for Specific Purposes (LSP)
- Language for legal purposes
- Language for sci-tech purposes
- Language for business purposes
- Corpus linguistics and LSP
- Discourse analysis and LSP
Strand II: Translation/Interpreting for Specific Purposes
(T/ISP)
- Trainings on legal translators and court interpreters
- Ethics of legal translators and court interpreters
- Fundamentals on legal translation and court interpreters
- Corpus and T/ISP
- Machine-based specialized translation
Strand III: Multiculturalism
- Legal cultures
- Business cultures
Individual proposals should be submitted to
waiyuzstu@gmail.com
before 30 Nov 2012. Panel proposals should be submitted to
waiyuzstu@gmail.com
and Le Cheng (
chengle163@hotmail.com)
before 15 Dec 2012.
Website
The
14th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law
Semioticizing and
Semioticized Law
(IRSL 2013)
Hangzhou, 25-29 May, 2013
Zhejiang Police College
The 14th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law
(IRSL2013) invites theoretical studies, applicational cases, and
relevant work-in-progress papers on the key issues in
Semiotics and Law. IRSL2013 promotes research of, and welcomes
participation from, researchers of different cultural and
language backgrounds from different disciplines and across
jurisdictions. The themes include but are not limited to the
following strands: Semiotics & Police Language and
Discourse;
Semiotics & Judicial Language and Discourse; Semiotics &
Legislation; Semiotics & Legal Culture.
Abstract submission: 15 Dec, 2012 (300-500 words) to
IRSL2013@hotmail.com and Anne Wagner (valwagnerfr@yahoo.com)
Early-bird Registration: 1 Feb-28 Feb, 2013
For more information, please visit the
website.
Meaning, Context &
Cognition (mcc 2013)
11-13
April 2013, University of Lodz, Poland
Department of English Language
& Applied Linguistics
Conference contact e-mail: mcc@uni.lodz.pl
Abstracts (max.
300 words) are invited for papers on topics relevant to the
fields of meaning, context & cognition with the goal of
the conference to integrate and promote both theoretical and
applied research (e.g. corpus studies, interdisciplinary
research) from the interface of semantics and pragmatics.
The topics invited for discussion during the 2013 MCC meeting
include:
- Linguistic interfaces
- Interfaces of theoretical and applied studies
- Context
- Language, music and cognition
- Language and emotion
- Language and gender
- Intercultural communication
- Language and law – SPECIAL SESSION
Website
3rd
European
Conference of the International Association of Forensic
Linguists
Forensic
Linguistics:
Bridging the Gap(s) between Language and the Law
15-18 October, 2012
Porto,
Portugal
The Faculty of Arts/Faculty of Law of the University of
Porto (Porto, Portugal) will host the 3rd European Conference
of the International Association of Forensic Linguists on the
theme of Forensic Linguistics: Bridging the Gap(s) between
Language and the Law. The conference, which is organised
jointly by the two Faculties, aims to bridge the gap(s)
between language and the law by sharing the latest research in
the field of forensic linguistics/language and the law, and
will be held from 15 to 18 October 2012.
Call deadline: 6 April 2012.
We invite abstract submissions for PAPERS and POSTERS
dealing with forensic linguistics / language and the law
including, but not limited to:
Legal Languages
Legal Discourse
Language minorities and the legal system
Law on language
Linguistic evidence and investigative linguistics
Other Related Sub-Themes
Website
Workshop on
Authorship Attribution at Brooklyn Law School
October 11 and 12, 2012
On October 11 and 12, 2012, there will be a Workshop on Authorship
Attribution at Brooklyn Law School. Speakers will be
scholars from the fields of forensic linguistics,
computational linguistics and computer science. Discussants
and commentators will be scholars in the areas of scientific
evidence and statistics. The workshop is sponsored by a
grant from the National Science Foundation, and by Brooklyn
Law School’s Journal of Law & Policy, and its Center for
the Study of Law, Language and Cognition. Attendance is free
and open to anyone interested, but you must RSVP. Please
visit http://www.brooklaw.edu/intellectuallife/centerforlawlanguageandcognition/overview.aspx
Summer Institute at the Faculty of Law, McGill
University
Monday, August 27th,
2012
(New Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, Montreal).
You can sign up today on this
website
.
The
program
is also available.
An application for recognition of the Institute as part of the
mandatory continuing legal education requirements will be made
to the Barreau du Québec.
Please notice that entrance is free but registration is
mandatory. Please do not hesitate to share this invitation with
your colleagues and students.
Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and
Comparative Law
http://www.mcgill.ca/centre-crepeau
centre.crepeau@mcgill.ca
First PERSP Legal Philosophy Workshop
5 and 6 July,
2012
University of Cambridge
The organisers invite submissions for an international workshop
on ‘Perspectival Legal Discourse’. The workshop will take place
in Cambridge on July 5th and 6th, 2012.
More information
Regional Conference of the International Association
of Forensic Linguists
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
5-7 July 2012
This conference aims to explore and share research
developments in the field of forensic linguistics and language
and the law by Identifying emerging trends, threats and
challenges; Discussing issues of language and the law and
courtroom practices, and Examining the roles of languages and
linguistics in forensic studies or contexts. The organisers
invite papers addressing the conference topics for a 20-minute
oral presentation followed by 10 minutes for questions and
answers. Please submit a 250-300-word abstract and 60-word
biography to the Secretariat on or before January 15, 2012.
Please also provide your full name and title, your university or
departmental affiliation and the title of your paper.
Acceptances will be announced by February 29, 2012. The
conference website is at
http://umconference.um.edu.my/IAFL2012.
For more information, please contact the Organisers at
IAFLConf2012@gmail.com.
COMPARATIVE LAW: ENGAGING TRANSLATION
21-22 June 2012
Kent Centre for European and
Comparative Law
Kent Law School, Canterbury,
UK
The Kent Centre for European and Comparative
Law invites participation in an international conference
entitled “Comparative Law: Engaging Translation” to be held at
Kent Law School, Canterbury, UK on 21-22 June 2012.
This international conference aims to promote
a heightened understanding of the complex translational
implications of comparative legal research. The conference’s
main assumption is that the question of comparative law is
through and through one of translation. Yet, even in today’s
globalised world where the need to communicate beyond borders
arises in ways that are possibly unprecedented, most
comparatists, for reasons which participants will want to
explore, continue not to address the issue of translation as it
pertains to comparative law. For example, after more than forty
years in print and three editions, the leading textbook in the
field remains silent on the subject-matter of translation. This
conference seeks to attract critical and interdisciplinary
papers that will draw on fields such as translation studies,
linguistics, literary theory, sociology, philosophy or
postcolonial studies in order to analyse the central role of
translation in comparative law, understood both in its literal
and metaphorical senses.
13th
International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL
2012)
(6-9 June 2012)
Fresh Waters from an Old
Spring: The Semiotics of Restorative Justice, Recognizing
Harms and Healing Communities Anew with Old Ways.
Conveners: Jack B. Hamlin & Chandrika Kelso
Archivist: Steven Fleisher
Conference Venue: National University,
La Jolla, California, USA
Proposals in
either English or French (max 300 words) should be
sent only by e-mail by 15
February 2012 to Jack B. Hamlin at jhamlin@nu.edu 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).
2nd International Conference on Law,
Translation and Culture
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University & City
University London
Hong Kong, 31 May - 2 June 2012
More
information
Clarity
conference 2012
May 21-21, 2012
Washington, D.C.
Clarity is calling for
papers (sort of) and seeking volunteers for Clarity2012
-- our conference at the National Press
Club in Washington, DC
in
May next year.
Call
for focused papers
Reflecting
Clarity's
legal focus, Clarity2012 has:
In
that light, we are calling for papers that strongly
reflect Clarity's focus and theme. However, to be
frank, we have only a very few speaking sessions
available. So our ability to accept papers is
restricted. This is due to various factors
including: conference room availability and cost;
and the time we have left to piece the conference
together. Our apologies.
If you would like to
submit a paper, then please email a very brief
outline (less than 250 words) to Christopher.balmford@cleardocs.com. Make sure your
outline shows how the paper fits Clarity2012's focus
and theme. (And please don't be upset if we can't
fit you in.)
Further
Information
2nd International Conference
Law, Language and Professional Practice
10-12 May 2012
Faculty of Law –
University of Naples 2
Santa Maria Capua Vetere – Caserta - Italy
For further informtio, click here.
2nd International Conference on Law, Language and
Discourse
Multiculturalism, Multimodality and Multidimensionality
Zhejiang Police
College
Hangzhou, 20-22 April 2012
http://www.zjjcxy.cn/meeting/
or
http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=132783
Crossing
Boundaries: Working and Communicating in the Asia
Pacific Region
March
13-15,
2012
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Third
Conference of the Asia-Pacific Rim LSP (Languages for
Specific Purposes) and Professional Communication
Association.
Abstracts due Sept. 1, 2011
Website
11th International
Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law
"Intercultural Awareness in Legal Language"
Public
Law Department – School of Law of Fluminense Federal
University – UFF (Rio de Janeiro – Brazil)
Dates:
11-13 November 2011
Hosted by Evandro
Carvalho (Brazil)
Co-organizer: Anne Wagner (France)
The 2011 roundtable will focus on the
contribution of legal semiotics to discuss the different ways
of thinking the "legal" in a world's cultural diversity.
It is hoped that the
papers will reflect the interdisciplinary nature of legal
semiotics research as well as the challenges of working in the
field. In this context, proposals from a wide variety of
semiotic perspectives are invited. These might include but are
not limited to papers on:
- The contribution of legal semiotics across
cultures
-
The problem of
multilingualism
-
Semiotics and
comparative law
-
Legal semiotics
and the processes of normative integration
-
Semiotics of international relations
-
Semiotics and
competition of languages in international relations
-
Language, power
and diplomacy
-
Translating
legal concepts across cultures: the case of contract
terminology or case of land law terminology.
-
The misuse of
language in the judicial process, in legal adjudication
-
The use of
metaphors in legal language
Young researchers working in related areas are
particularly encouraged to participate.
In the interest of a cohesive round table,
prospective participants are requested to adhere to the
theme as outlined in the call for papers.
Proposals in either English, Spanish, French or
Portuguese (max 300 words) should be sent only
by e-mail by 15 May 2011 to irsl2011@gmail.com, evandro.carvalho@gmail.com
and to Anne Wagner (valwagnerfr@yahoo.com).
Parliamentary Discourses across
Cultures: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Bucharest, Romania
September 23-24,
2011
You are cordially invited to participate in the
international conference on Parliamentary Discourses across
Cultures, organized by the Centre for
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (University of
Bucharest, Faculty of Letters), in connection with the
Research Project Tradition and Modernity in
the Romanian Parliamentary Discourse: a Pragma-Rhetorical
Approach, sponsored by the CNCSIS - UEFISCSU (code 2136/
2008, PN II IDEI).
The conference has an interdisciplinary scope and is open to
specialists in several fields, such as Linguistics,
Discourse Analysis, History, Political
Sciences, Sociology, Media and Communication.
Abstracts due May 1, 2011
Website
Uncovering
Plagiarism,
Authorship, and Social Software Misuse
19-22 September 2011
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The 5th
International Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship,
and Social Software Misuse (PAN'11) will be held in
conjunction with the CLEF conference in Amsterdam,
Netherlands, on September 19-22, 2011.
Contact: Martin Potthast
Email: pan@webis.de
Meeting URL: http://pan.webis.de
11th International Roundtable for the
Semiotics of Law
Intercultural
Awareness
in Legal Language
Public
Law Department – School of Law oof Fluminense Federal
University – UFF (Rio de Janeiro – Brazil)
Dates:
11-13 November 2011
Hosted by Evandro Carvalho (Brazil)
Co-organizer: Anne Wagner (France)
Abstract deadline: 15 July 2011
Website
Jurilinguistics
Summer Institute
August 29,
2011, in Montreal, Canada
Après le succès du 4e Institut
d’été de jurilinguistique l’an dernier
à Moncton, c’est avec grand plaisir que nous vous
informons de la tenue d’une nouvelle édition de ce
rendez-vous annuel.
This year, the Jurilinguistics Summer Institute will take
place in Montreal, Quebec. For this 5th Edition we’ll offer
you a program that addresses theoretical and practical
issues, combining lectures, panels and workshops. This year,
we have the privilege to work in collaboration with the
European Union Centre of Excellence
(http://www.centreurope-montreal.ca/en/). Therefore, a
European perspective on Jurilinguistics will have an
important place.
Réservez la date pour le 29 août/Save the date
for August 29th.
Nous vous recontacterons prochainement avec plus de
détails sur le programme et les modalités
d’inscription. Pour plus d’information sur les derniers
Instituts d’été, SVP visitez le site :
http://francais.mcgill.ca/crdpcq/activities/jurilinguistics/.
SVP n’hésitez pas à distribuer cette
information parmi vos contacts.
MULTILINGUALISM AND LANGUAGE
LEARNING IN CHINA, MONGOLIA AND RUSSIA
Ulan-Ude and Lake Baikal,
Buryatia, Russian Federation
22-25 August 2011
In 2009 UNESCO
has published an Internet Atlas of the endangered languages in
most countries of the world. The Foundation for Endangered
Languages (FEL) has been involved in the preparation of this
Atlas and works further on the collection of data which will
make the presented information up-to date. In various parts of
the world Regional Interest Groups of the FEL are created
which have tasks to establish and strengthen the relation of
specialists with minority language communities and
organisations in their region and to report on experiences of
such communities in the field of language learning,
conservation and possible revitalisation.
The Conference at Lake Baikal will make it possible to realize
part of these tasks by inviting scholars from China, Mongolia
and Russia, who are involved in the study of (endangered)
minority languages, in particular Altaic and Paleo-Asiatic
languages, such as Buryat, Oirat, Manchu, Evenk, Soiot, Tyva
Yukagir, Orok and Nivkh. We invite colleagues to contribute to
the conference with papers on the documentation and teaching
of these languages and hope to create a network for
representatives of these languages who will form a Regional
Interest Group of the FEL and contribute to the improvement of
the UNESCO Atlas.
Conference Languages: Russian, English, Chinese and Mongolian
First Call for
Papers
Abstracts have to be received from possible
participants before April 2011
They should have a maximum size of 500
words and be sent to
Ljubov Radnaeva [radnaeva@yahoo.com] and
Tjeerd de Graaf [tdegraaf@fryske-akademy.nl]
Selection of abstracts by the programme
committee before May 2011
1st
International Conference on Law, Language and Discourse
August 20-21, 2011
City University of Hong Kong
Call for Papers Deadline: 15-Apr-2011
The LLD Conference invites papers on all aspects of law,
language and discourse, including, but not limited to:
1. Legislative language
2. Courtroom language
3. Language in the proceeding of investigation (including
police interrogation, cover investigation, conversation in
prison, etc.)
4. Legal translation & court interpretation
5. Education and training on LLP (Language for Legal Purposes)
6. Language evidence as a system
7. Discourse analysis of legal texts
8. Legal terminology
9. Legal discourse and information retrieval
10. Language planning and Language rights
For more information, go to linguist
list
International
Association of Forensic Linguists
Aston University (U.K.), July 11-14,
2011.
(1) INDIVIDUAL PAPERS are invited for presentations of 20
minutes, with a further 10 minutes allowed for questions.
Abstracts should be 250-300 words long and should be submitted
at
www.forensiclinguistics.net/iafl2011_abstracts.htm.
Unsuccessful proposals may be offered to be presented
alternatively as a poster (see below).
(2) COLLOQUIA, scheduled for 2-hour blocks, with a maximum
of two linked sessions. Colloquia organisers may organise as
they choose, but time should be allocated for presentations,
discussion and audience response. Colloquia organisers serve
as the liaison between participants and the conference
organisers. Proposals will also be reviewed by the Scientific
Committee. Proposals should be 250-300 words long, with an
indication of participants and a brief description of their
contribution. They should be submitted at
www.forensiclinguistics.net/iafl2011_abstracts.htm.
(3) POSTERS. Proposals for posters should be up to 250
words long. Posters should be of A0 size (841mm x 1189mm) in
portrait orientation. Posters may be accepted for research
projects (for example from student dissertations) where no
data has yet been collected.
(4) GRADUATE PROJECT WHIRLWIND. It is proposed that we hold
a session of 1.5 hours designed to enable current PhD
researchers and graduate students (and recent graduates of
such programmes) to make contact with others who may be facing
similar issues in their research and receive advice from more
experienced researchers. The session will comprise a series of
strictly timed 5 minute slots where presenters might wish to
speak about how they got access to sensitive data, how they
overcame a particular analysis problem or how their research
question changed over the course of their PhD. The five minute
slots will be interspersed with 10 minute discussion sessions.
To participate in the whirlwind no abstract is required, and
you may of course submit an abstract for an individual
presentation, colloquia or poster, alongside your
participation in the whirlwind. If you would be
interested in participating in such a session please indicate
your interest on the electronic admission form and we will
contact you with further details nearer the conference.
To contact the organisers, use the contact form at
www.forensiclinguistics.net.
Law & Language
4 & 5 July 2011
Faculty of Laws at University College London.
This
interdisciplinary
colloquium celebrates the wide and diverse relationship
between Law and Language. Language and law are inextricably
linked in many ways: rules are expressed, understood, and
interpreted in language; legislation too is a special form of
expression, as is a judge’s opinion. We might think too about
the way we speak about law: how does the language of rights or
the language of power harness, constrain and change our
perceptions of law? How language works to shape and enrich our
understanding of law is also important: for example,
semantics, hermeneutics, linguistics, logic, semiotics,
psycholinguistics, syntax, pragmatics, each reveal deeper
ideas. Analytic techniques from many other disciplines like
Literature, Philosophy, Neuroscience, Economics, Geography,
Anthropology and Psychology (to name but a few) each reveal
new insights into the way we perceive language and law in
general, how we work with language in law and how we might
understand the place of language in specific areas of law,
including Contract, Tort or International Law for example. The
relationship between law and language extends to broader
notions of language as communication too, like the crucial
role of silence and non-verbal communication. In essence, the
relationship between law and language is varied and complex.
The ideas expressed here only touch on the many diverse ways
law and language interact. We invite papers from a broad
spectrum of ideas and disciplines on the relationship between
law and language.
Conference
Website
Final
Program
Sixth Conference on
Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and
Comparative Legilinguistics (Legal Linguistics)
June 30-July 2, 2011
Poznan, Poland
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 30th
June to 2nd July 2011 in Poznan, Poland. We invite
papers on the following topics:
FORENSIC LINGUISTICS IN GENERAL
LEGAL TRANSLATION AND COURT INTERPRETING
LEGAL LANGUAGES AND LEGAL DISCOURSE
HISTORY OF LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEMS
LAWS ON LANGUAGES
Website
FIRST INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
23–24 JUNE 2011
Cardiff University, UK
The conference will take place at Cardiff University in the UK
and will likely have several panels on language and law.
Conference website
Law, Language and Literature
17 and 18 June 2011
UNIVERSITY OF PARIS OUEST (NANTERRE-LA
DEFENSE)
The CRCL (Centre for Research on Common Law) is
organizing a conference on “law, language and literature” to
be held on 17 and 18 June 2011 at the University of Paris Ouest
(Nanterre-La Défense).
Legal adjudication is
fundamentally a question of interpretation. Despite the
presence of interpretation sections in statutes and other
legal documents, it is characteristic of lawyers and judges
to argue about the meaning of words. More generally, the
social sciences and the humanities are all concerned with
language, and more specifically with meaning. The purpose of
this conference is to bring together researchers in law,
philosophy, linguistics and literary studies, to examine the
mutual relevance of their work in this field.
Papers are invited on the following
topics, preferably, but not exclusively with reference to
the law of common law countries:
1. Philosophical and
linguistic theories of meaning, legal definitions and
judicial interpretation
2. Argumentation
theories and judicial argumentation
3. The functions of
literary references in judicial argumentation
4. Other aspects of
the relevance of the literary disciplines (poetics, literary
rhetoric, stylistics, narratology, literary criticism) for
the analysis of law (excluding representations of law in
literature)
Offers
of papers with a 200-word abstract, a
biographical note and contact details should be
addressed by 30 January 2011 to the two
organizers:
Ross Charnock (Senior
Lecturer at Paris
Dauphine): charnock@dauphine.fr Sebastian McEvoy
(Professor at Paris
Ouest University): stmcevoy@gmail.com
The Thirteenth
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and
Law
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
June 10, 2011
There will be a workshop at the conference on Applying Human
Language Technology to the Law (AHLTL 2011)
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO APRIL 10.
Additional
Information
THE
TENTH
INTERNATIONAL FORUM
ON ETHICS AND GOOD PRACTICES
Paris, May 19-21, 2011
The FIT Committee for Legal Translation and Court Interpreting
in cooperation with the French Interpreters¡¦ and
Translators Association (UNETICA)
and the support of Institut Superieur d'Interpretation et de
Traduction (ISIT) organizes under the auspices of the
International Federation of Translators
and is pleased to invite translators, interpreters, academics,
researchers and students to attend the Paris International
Forum.
Deadline for sending abstracts: 15 January 2011
Length of abstracts: not more than 500 characters
Authors are expected to send their abstracts to: Monique ROUZET
LELIEVRE, UNETICA, 7 rue Pierre Bocher, 95230 SOISY SOUS
MONTMORENCY, FRANCE (Nickyrouz@aol.com)
Venue: Paris Court (Palais de justice de Paris)
Salle des Criées
4 Boulevard du Palais
75001 Paris, France
Website
The Letter
of the Law
May 5-8, 2011
Athens, Greece
The 8th International Conference of the Hellenic Association
for the Study of English (HASE) is organised and hosted by the
Faculty of English Studies at the University of Athens.
Our theme for 2011 is “The Letter of the Law” and invites
inquiry into the intersections of literature, language and the
law. The conference seeks to rethink the formulation and the
violation of the law and the complex mediations between the
lexis and the lex, as issues of law and justice become yet
again imperative in our contemporary world.
For all queries please contact the organisers:
Mata Dimakopoulou (University of Athens) sdimakop@enl.uoa.gr
Christina Dokou (University of Athens) cdokou@enl.uoa.gr
Elly Ifantidou (University of Athens) ifelly@enl.uoa.gr
Efterpi Mitsi, HASE Chair (University of Athens)
emitsi@enl.uoa.gr
Angeliki Tzanne (University of Athens) atzanne@enl.uoa.gr
Conference website
Legal Translation in the European Union: new frontiers between complexity of
multilingualism and Plain English
Milan,
Italy
April 8, 2011
For information, click here
14th Annual Association for the Study of
Law, Culture and the Humanities Conference
March 11-12, 2011
University of Nevada, Las
Vegas
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the
Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in
interdisciplinary, humanistic legal scholarship. The
Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in
scholarship on legal history, legal theory, jurisprudence, law
and cultural studies, law and literature, law and the
performing arts, and legal hermeneutics. We want to encourage
dialogue across and among these fields about issues of
interpretation, identity, ideals, values, authority,
obligation, justice, and about law�s place in culture.
We will be accepting proposals for panels, roundtables,
papers, and volunteers for chairs and discussants from July 1
until October 15th 2010.
website
Friday, 21 January 2011, 9:00 - 18:00 hrs
On 21 January 2011 the Centre for the Study of European
Contract Law and the Amsterdam Circle for Law &
Language (ACLL) organize an international conference on
the Role of Legal Translation in Legal Harmonization.
- Ingemar Strandvik, Quality manager, Directorate A
of DGT, European Commission
- Manuela Guggeis, Head of Quality Unit, Legal Service,
Council of the European Union
- Susan Šarčević, Professor in Legal English and EU
Terminology, University of Rijeka Faculty of Law (Croatia)
- Marta Chromá, Law Faculty of Charles University,
Prague (Czech Republic)
- G.R. de Groot, Professor Comparative Law/International
Law, University of Maastricht (Netherlands)
- Geoffrey Samuel, Professor Comparative Law, Kent Law
School, University of Kent
- Barbara Pozzo, Professor of Private Comparative Law,
University of Insubria (Italy)
For more
information, click
here.
Explaining
the Law to Others: Message Received… and Understood! (October 21st
and 22nd, 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
9th 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 Comunicació -
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.
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 !
Register
now by filling out the registration form that you will find
on our website.
http://www.mcgill.ca/crdpcq/activities/upcomingevents/
http://francais.mcgill.ca/crdpcq/activities/upcomingevents/
8th
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 1st 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
Position Paper Submission Deadline: Friday. November 7, 2008
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