28.897, Confs: Forensic Ling, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Germany

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Subject: 28.897, Confs: Forensic Ling, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:08:49
From: Friedemann Vogel [friedemann.vogel at medienkultur.uni-freiburg.de]
Subject: Forensic Ling, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Germany

 
Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation and Social Conflicts 
Short Title: ILLA 2017 

Date: 07-Sep-2017 - 09-Sep-2017 
Location: University of Freiburg, Germany 
Contact: Friedemann Vogel 
Contact Email: conference2017 at illa.online 
Meeting URL: https://illa.online/relaunch-conference-2017 

Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics; General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The International Language and Law Association (ILLA) was founded by legal
linguists Peter Tiersma, Lawrence Solan and Dieter Stein in 2007. Their
initiative was to create a network of linguists and lawyers around the world
working on the language matrix of law. In that framework, language is not
simply seen as a subject in the legal context or an object of forensic
analysis, but as the central medium of modern constitutional states, as the
mediator of social conflicts and the core of legal methodology.

After an initial period of gestation, documented in two conferences, it is now
time to relaunch the ILLA, to reconfigure the society on the basis of the
experiences up to this point and to give it a new sustainable structure. In
memory of Peter Tiersma (1952–2014) we are organizing ILLA’s first
international conference of legal linguistics in August 2017, to be held in
Freiburg (Germany):

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
September 7 - 9, 2017, University of Freiburg, Germany

Under this general topic we especially want to discuss the following issues:

1) The current state of research in the field of legal linguistics in the
context of increasing social conflicts in globalized, multilingual and
digitalized societies. Here it is also necessary to bring together the
particular research traditions of legal linguistics in different countries -
for example, in Germany, the United States, Russia and China.

2) Defining the most important tasks for the young discipline of legal
linguistics in different cultural, linguistic, and (inter)national contexts.
It will not only be beneficial in the legal domain itself, but it will also
generate extensive application insights at large, by searching for answers to
the following questions: How can research results be transferred into the
education of future lawyers both in existing programmes and in new
international Master’s degree programmes? How can models of legal linguistics
be useful for rethinking methodological problems in the context of
transnational and multilingual law in a globalized and digitalized world? How
can legal linguistics contribute to understanding and resolving social
conflicts? And how can we approach legal linguistics as a “theory of practice”
(Bourdieu 2009) and as a practice of courts and legislation?

3) The foundation and restructuring of ILLA, its future guidelines and
organisational framework.

(4) The establishment of a junior researcher network within ILLA, featuring a
special panel as the platform for junior researchers to be informed of the
development in the working field, to exchange project ideas and methodologies.

The first conference of the International Language and Law Association will be
hosted by the University of Freiburg (Germany) under the direction of Prof.
Dr. Friedemann Vogel, from September 7 to 9, 2017.

Executive Committee:

- Anne Lise Kjær (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Ralf Poscher (Freiburg, Germany)
- Lawrence Solan (New York, USA)
- Dieter Stein (Düsseldorf, Germany)
- Friedemann Vogel (Freiburg, Germany)

Organizer, Host and Contact:

Prof. Dr. Friedemann Vogel: University of Freiburg, Germany
E-Mail: conference2017 at illa.online

For more information about the International Language and Law Association
please visit https://www.illa.online .
 

Program: 

The conference program can be accessed at
https://illa.online/index.php/conf2017-programme





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