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

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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.

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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).

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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.        

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Call for Contributions

Treatise on Legal Visual Semiotics
4 volumes
Publisher: SPRINGER

  EDITORS: Anne Wagner and Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy

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

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

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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.

The Language of Terrorists and Terrorism in the 21st Century (LTT21C):

Venue: Gregynog Conference Centre, Newtown, Mid-Wales

 Conference page: www.thefls.org.uk/conference

"The Promise of Legal Semiotics"

7^th International Round Table for the Semiotics of Law

Co-organised by:  Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy and Anne Wagner

Dates: July 1-4, 2008

Location: Université du Littoral, Côte d’Opale (France) 

Keynote addresses: The Round Table will feature two keynote addresses:

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.

For further information on the Round Table, see http://www.univ-littoral.fr/irsl2008 or contact sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy at sofiecacciaguidi@eircom.net

Boulogne-sur-Mer (France)

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.