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Date: 31-Dec-2025
From: Daniel Green [daniel.green at univie.ac.at]
Subject: 9th International Legal Linguistics Workshop


9th International Legal Linguistics Workshop
Short Title: ILLWS26
Theme: Emancipating Legal Linguistics: Hopes and Challenges for the
Independence of an Interdiscipline

Date: 18-Jun-2026 - 19-Jun-2026
Location: Dijon, France
Contact: Daniel Green
Contact Email: daniel.green at univie.ac.at
Meeting URL:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399237284_Call_for_Papers_9th_Legal_Linguistics_Workshop_ILLWS25_Emancipating_Legal_Linguistics_Hopes_and_Challenges_for_the_Independence_of_an_Interdiscipline

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics;
Forensic Linguistics; General Linguistics; Translation

Submission Deadline: 01-Mar-2026

The 9th International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS26) will be
held in Dijon, France from  June 18 to 19, 2026 and co-hosted by the
Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL) and the Laboratoire
Texte, Image, Langage (TIL) at the Université Bourgogne Europe.
The workshop will focus around the theme
“Emancipating Legal Linguistics: Hopes and Challenges for the
Independence of an Interdiscipline.”
Legal Linguistics has emerged in the Canadian tradition under the
label jurilinguistique to address the difficulties of joint drafting
and legal communication within a nation with two different legal
languages, systems, and traditions. Since then, the study of legal
language has developed into distinct subdisciplines in various
academic traditions such as the Anglophone and European Legal
Linguistics, the Germanist Rechtslinguistik, and the Russian
yurislingvistika. These new interdisciplinary domains are often
regarded as independent research areas, yet at the same time as
special branches of LSP Research, and insulated from other more
universal and non-abstract subject matters.
Situated within the broader field of language and law, Legal
Linguistics now stands alongside more recent disciplines such as
Forensic Linguistics and Language Rights and even appears in applied
forms like Legal Translation Studies (LTS), juritraductologie, or
Rechtstranslatologie, considering that the translation of legal texts
is equally treated as a special case of translation studies. The aim
of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussing innovative
approaches, creating synergies and further developing the strengths of
Legal Linguistics for the benefit of human beings and democratic
societies.
With a growing number of volumes, workshops, and professional networks
that specifically tackle legal language as a research area, this
workshop welcomes papers exploring Legal Linguistics as an
emancipating discipline, with a special focus on models and
methodologies,  specifically adapted to this field. Topics can relate
but are not limited to discourse analysis, corpus-based research,
specialized translation and communication strategies, AI and language
technologies, legislation, comparative law, multilingualism,
contrastive and applied linguistics, cognitive and epistemic aspects,
as well as semantics, morphology, and syntax in law and in the
context of legal methodology.
Submissions may seek to provide answers including but not limited to
the following questions:
1. How can Legal Linguistics be conceptualised as an emancipating
discipline within the  broader field of language and law?
2. Which models, perspectives, or methodological orientations are
needed to address legal language as a research object in its own
right, rather than as a subsidiary of neighbouring  disciplines?
3. How do different legal-linguistic traditions (e.g.,
jurilinguistique, Rechtslinguistik, Anglophone and other regional
approaches) inform, challenge, or complement one another?
4. In which ways can research on legal discourse, legal texts, and
legal communication contribute to democratic societies and the needs
of human beings?
5. How can theoretical and applied approaches to legal language be
meaningfully and productively connected across contexts such as
legislation, interpretation and translation?
6. Which future directions, synergies, and challenges may emerge as
Legal Linguistics,  theoretical and applied, continues to expand
across languages, legal cultures, and institutional settings?
ILLWS26 will be held in English, French, and German.
We are happy to announce the following keynote speakers:
Prof. Dr. Laurent Gautier, Professor of Applied Linguistics at the
Université Bourgogne Europe
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Martina Bajčić, Head of Department of Foreign
Languages at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka
Submission Guidelines:
Applicants are invited to submit an abstract of 250 words, including
the title, theoretical background, research question(s), and
methodology. The use of artificial intelligence tools in preparing
submissions must comply with good academic practice. Submissions must
be original,  unpublished, and not under review elsewhere.
Please submit your abstract to daniel.green at univie.ac.at and CC
wanazaro at uni-mainz.de and karin.luttermann at ku.de.
Deadline for abstract submission: 1 March 2026
Decision regarding acceptance or rejection by 31 March 2026
Conference fees EUR 50 per contributing scholar, to be transferred to
the association bank
account upon acceptance.
Organising Committee
Daniel Green
Karin Luttermann
Waldemar Nazarov
Laurent Gautier
Martina Bajčić
Claus Luttermann
Maximilian Hofbauer
Fabian Sekora
Sarah Atkins
Matthias Eder
Daniel Kopp
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