AALL24: Controversies in Legal Linguistics

The 3rd International Conference of the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL24) is entitled Controversies in Legal Linguistics and will take place on 13th December 2024 at the Faculty of Law of Sigmund Freud University Vienna.

It is our great pleasure to welcome Professor Konrad Lachmayer (Sigmund Freud University Vienna) and Professor Karin Luttermann (Katholische Universität Eichstätt Ingolstadt) as this year’s keynote speaker.

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Karin Luttermann (privat)

Kommunikation im Recht: Linguistische Zugänge für Verständlichkeit und Vertrauen

Karin Luttermann is Professor of German Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Literature at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. She is also a member of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, member of the advisory board of the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics and at the German Association for Applied Linguistics, head of the section Fachkommunikation (Language for Specific Purposes); formerly member of the advisory board of Redaktionsstab Rechtssprache of the German Language Association at the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, Berlin. She is co-editor of the book series Rechtslinguistik (Legal Linguistics. Studies on Text and Communication), member of the international advisory board of the online legal linguistic journal Comparative Law and Language (University of Trento). She has published widely and co-edited a number of books and special issues of journals within the field of language and law. Her main research interests are the study of language use and comprehensibility in legal texts and discourses and the relation between specialised knowledge and text formulation.

Konrad Lachmayer (privat)

Introducing Translanguaging as a Concept for Comparative Law

Konrad Lachmayer studied law at the University of Vienna, where he also completed his doctorate in public law. From 2013/14 to 2016, he held a research chair at the Institute of Legal Studies at the Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and was a research fellow and subsequently a visiting scholar at Durham Law School (United Kingdom). Since 2017, he has been a professor of public and European law and vice-dean for research at the Faculty of Law of the Sigmund Freud University (SFU) in Vienna. He visited the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Germany), the Central European University (Hungary), University College Dublin (Ireland) and the University of Virginia (USA). His areas of research and teaching include comparative constitutional law as well as Austrian and European public law, particularly with regard to democratic legitimation, the rule of law and human rights

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PROGRAMME

Morning Session

Afternoon Session

Evening Session

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