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ILLA Conferences
Alicante 2021
Freiburg 2017 (Relaunch Conference)
PhD Network Activities
Junior Researcher Panel 2017
Journal Language & Law
Foundations in Language and Law Series
Activities - Overview
ILLA General Conferences are held every two years, complemented by a number of focus conferences and workshops in the interim period (see below).
Language and Law in the Age of Migration
(Fifth ILLA Conference)
September 7th – 9th, 2021, University of Alicante, Spain; Conference director: Victoria Guillén
Taking Language and Law Seriously
(Fourth ILLA Conference)
September 11th – 14th 2019, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Law School, USA; Conference director: Frances Olsen
Computers, Language, and Law: Spotlight on Blind Spots
The First ILLA Focus Workshop in Copenhagen, September 2018
September 7th – 8th, 2018, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
Organizer: Anne-Lise Kjær, iCourts, RELINE network
Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation and Social Conflicts
Refounding the International Law and Language Association (ILLA) to Make Law more transparent
(Third and Relaunch Conference)
September 7th – 9th, 2017, University of Freiburg, Germany; Conference director: Friedemann Vogel
The pragmatic Turn: interpretation and inference in legal discourse
(Second ILLA-Conference)
July 2015, Vancouver, UBC, Canada; Conference directors: Janet Giltrow UBC Vancouver and Dieter Stein, University of Düsseldorf; Volume with papers submitted to Mouton de Gruyter, "The pragmatic turn in law. Inference and Interpretation in legal discourse." (Eds. Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein)
(First ILLA-Conference)
May 2006; Düsseldorf, Germany jointly organized by Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf and Law School University of California at Los Angeles; Conference director: Frances Olsen (UCLA), Alexander Lorz (Düsseldorf), Dieter Stein (Düsseldorf); Resulting publications: Frances Olsen, Alexander Lorz and Dieter Stein, "Law and Language: Theory and Society", DUP Düsseldorf University Press, Düsseldorf, 2008; Frances Olsen, Alexander Lorz and Dieter Stein, "Translation Issues in Language and Law", Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2009
Activities of the ILLA Phd Network
Junior Researcher Panel at ILLA 2017 Freiburg
September 6th, 2017, University of Freiburg, Germany
Other Conferences or Workshops on Legal Linguistics
The pragmatics of legal discourse
Workshop at the fourth meeting of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA-4) will be held at the State University of New York, Albany on November 1-3. 2018; Organizers: Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein
Jurilinguistics II
Interdisicplinary Approaches to the Study of Language and Law will be held at Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain on October 25-26. 2018. Organizers: Jurilinguistica
Legal and institutional translation policies: An interdisciplinary inquiry into past, present and future challenges. Conference will be held at KU Leuven, Belgium on September 20-22. 2018; Organizers: "Translation and Intercultural Transfer", "Leuven centre for Public Law", "CETRA"
The Words of the Law.
"V International Seminar on English and ESP Lexicology and Lexicography: The Words of the Law" will be held at the University of Alicante (Spain) on April 26-27, 2018. Organizers: The Lexicology of Languages for Specific Purposes Research Group (LexEsp)
The fabric of law and language. Discovering Patterns Through Legal Corpus Linguistics
March 18th – 19th 2016, Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany
Legal corpus pragmatics. The challenge posed to law by theories of media and language
April 25th – 27th 2013, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany
Recent Activities: ILLA 2019 in LA
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