CONFERENCES
ON LANGUAGE AND LAW
There is a lot of conference activity coming
up!! Listed
below
are those that I have heard of.
At the end of this file I have placed various past conferences, for
those who might want to know what they've missed!
Some of the links may no longer be active, especially those set up for
past conferences.
The International Association of Forensic Linguists' 8th Biennial
Conference
The
meeting will take place at the University of Washington, Seattle from
12th - 15th July 2007. The Conference website is now online and will be updated
regularly with news and information as the Conference approaches.
Plenary
speakers will be Janet Ainsworth and Malcolm Coulthard. There
will be a special session (chaired by yours truly--i.e. Peter Tiersma)
honoring Rogor Shuy.
International Conference on Forensic Linguistics
7th ~ 8th November 2008
Guangdong University of Foreign
Studies
Guangzhou, P. R. C
For more, go to this site.
Session on the Language of Jury
Instructions at Association of American Law Schools
Washington, DC, January 6, 2007
Program: Writing Jury Instructions in Plain English
Presenters: Justice James Ward (chair of California's
Committee on Civil Jury Instruction); Justice Carol Corrigan (chair of
California's Committee on Criminal Jury Instructions); and Professors
Peter Tiersma, Wayne Schiess, and Joe Kimble (who have written about
and been involved in jury-instructions projects).
Date and Time: Saturday, January 6, 10:45 a.m. to 12:15
a.m.
Place: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Hoover Room,
Mezzanine Level
Round Tables for
the Semiotics of Law (IRSL)
6th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law:
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
will be held 28 – 30 June 2007, Wollongong, Australia.
Proposals (a title + max 200 words) should be sent
by 31 January 2007 to: Dr Rick Mohr, Faculty of Law, University
of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia email: rmohr@uow.edu.au
PAST
Conferences
▐
Law and
Society
Association
Baltimore, July 6-9, 2006
As usual, there are several panels on language and
law being planned for this conference. For more information,
click here.
Panels are currently being organized by Peter
Tiersma, Larry Solan, and Bethany Dumas.
Second IAFL European Conference on
Forensic Linguistics/Language and the Law
Barcelona, Spain, 14 ~ 16 SEPTEMBER, 2006.
Location: Institut
Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada IULA), Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, .
Conference chairperson: Professor
M. Teresa Turell.
Program
is now available.
Contact: iulaforensic@upf.edu
International Summer School
in Forensic Linguistics
Aston University, Birmingham, UK
September, 2006
Website: http://www.forensiclinguistics.net/
Poznan conference on language and
law
A
conference on language and law will be held in Poznan, Poland, in
September 27-29, 2006. For more information, go to
http://www.lingualegis.amu.edu.pl/
The Round Tables for
the Semiotics of Law (IRSL) 2006 were held in France on May
17-20 at
the
Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale.
Language and Law Conference
Düsseldorf, Germany - May
17th-19th, 2006
Click here for
more information.
This conference took place in Mickeln Castle and was co-sponsored by
the Heinrich-Heine-University of Dusseldorf and UCLA.
Law
and Society Association,
Collaborative Research Network on Language and Law
The annual meeting of the Law and Society Association in 2005 took
place June 2-5 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
For more information, visit http://www.lawandsociety.org/ann_mtg/am05/call.htm
The CRN on Language and Law organized four panels
during this conference.
For more information, contact Peter.Tiersma@lls.edu
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
International
Association of Forensic Linguists
Biannual conference was held in Cardiff, Wales, during July 1-4,
2005
Conference website
Contact: Janet
Cotterill (cotterillj@cf.ac.uk)
Transparence
et Opacité du
Discours juridique
Clarity and Obscurity in
Legal
Language
July 5-9, 2005
Boulogne-sur-Mer (France)
Secrétariat de la conférence / Conference
secretariat:
Catherine Wadoux et Monique Random
17, rue du Puits d’Amour
B.P. 751
62321 Boulogne-sur-Mer Cédex
Tel : 03-21-99-45-60
Fax : 03-21-99-45-61
Language and the Law 2005:
East
meets West
Department of English Language
University of Lodz
Contact: Krzysztof Kredens<kredensk@HHS.BHAM.AC.UK>
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
Dr Anna Jopek-Bosiacka
Institute of Applied Linguistics
Warsaw University
Browarna 8/10
00-311 Warsaw, Poland
linguaetius2004@uw.edu.pl
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
Conference
on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law 2004
4th - 5th July, 2004
Conference Website
Cardiff University will host a
2-day conference on forensic linguistics/language and law on the 4th
and 5th of July 2004.
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.
International
Roundtables for the
Semiotics of Law
Date: 07-Jul-2004 - 12-Jul-2004
Location: Lyon, France
Contact: Anne Wagner
Contact Email: valwagnerfr@yahoo.com