Fritz-Schönherr-Symposium |
Recht und Mehrsprachigkeit in der Europäischen Union

Praktische Perspektiven für die grenzüberschreitende anwaltliche Arbeit

13. November 2025 | 18:00 Uhr | Schottenring 19, 1010 Wien

Die Österreichische Gesellschaft für Rechtslinguistik (ÖGRL) und Schönherr Rechtsanwälte beehren sich, zum diesjährigen Fritz-Schönherr-Symposium einzuladen.

Fritz Schönherr (1920–1984) prägte als Rechtsanwalt und Universitätsprofessor das österreichische Wirtschaftsrecht wie kein anderer. Sein Wirken als Rechtsanwalt, Dolmetscher und Rechtsdidaktiker steht beispielhaft für die enge Verbindung von Recht und Sprache, die auch im Zentrum dieser Veranstaltung steht:

Wie greifen Recht und Sprache innerhalb der Europäischen Union ineinander, und welche Bedeutung hat dies für die grenzüberschreitende anwaltliche Praxis?
Wie können Anwält:innen Mandant:innen sach- und sprachkundig beraten, ohne unpräzise oder missverständlich zu werden?
Welche Rolle spielt juristische Mehrsprachigkeit dabei, Informationen korrekt und verständlich zu vermitteln?
Wie können neue Technologien, von automatisierten Übersetzungsprogrammen bis zu KI-gestützten Recherchetools, die sach- und sprachkundige Beratung erleichtern, und welche Risiken bergen sie?
Welche Strategien ermöglichen es Jurist:innen, in der digitalen und internationalen Arbeitswelt effizient, korrekt und klar zu kommunizieren?

Wann & Wo:

Donnerstag, 13. November 2025 | 18:00 Uhr mit anschließendem Networking
Schönherr Rechtsanwälte | Schottenring 19, 1010 Wien

Anmeldung:
Die Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung ist kostenlos. Das Symposium richtet sich an alle, die Einblicke in die Herausforderungen und Chancen juristischer Mehrsprachigkeit gewinnen möchten und sich über praktische Lösungsansätze austauschen wollen. Wir bitten um Anmeldung unter dem folgenden Link.

Gerne kann diese Einladung mit interessierten Kolleg:innen geteilt werden. Bei Fragen zur Veranstaltung wenden Sie sich bitte an events@schoenherr.eu.

Agenda:

18:00 Uhr | Eröffnung
Guido Kucsko, Daniel Green, Karin Luttermann

18:15 Uhr | Mehrsprachigkeit und Einheitlichkeit des EU-Rechts im digitalen Zeitalter: mit Blick auf die Praxis
Martina Bajčić (Universität Rijeka)

18:35 Uhr | Kommunikation bei Gericht
Fritz Forsthuber (Präsident Landesgerichtes für Strafsachen Wien)

18:50 Uhr | Recht und Sprache gehören zusammen: Das Erbe Fritz Schönherrs und die Rechtslinguistik in Europa
Daniel Green (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Rechtslinguistik)

19:05 Uhr | Rechtslinguistik zwischen Kommunikationsmodellen und Begriffsjurisprudenz
Florian Heindler (Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Wien)

19: 20 Uhr | Panel 1 | Mehrsprachigkeit, Kommunikation und Rechtslinguistik
Martina Bajčić, Fritz Forsthuber, Daniel Green, Florian Heindler

19:40 Uhr | Herausforderungen und Chancen der Beziehung von Recht und Sprache im digitalen Wandel am Beispiel des Kartellrechts
Johannes Hirsch

19:55 Uhr | Recht und Linguistik: Verständlichkeit im Spiegel der Disziplinen
Patricia Rawinsky (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)

20:10 Uhr | Zwischen Ius Romano-Germanicum und Scots Law: Der Ius Commune Moot Court – The Imperial Aulic Council (IAC) als sprachliche Herausforderung und Experimentierfeld
Stephan Wendehorst (Universität Wien)

20:25 Uhr | Panel 2 | Herausforderungen der Rechtssprache und Verständlichkeit in der Praxis
Johannes Hirsch, Patricia Rawinsky, Stephan Wendehorst, Anna Sofia Reumann

21:00 | Ausklang bei Snacks & Drinks

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

We would like to sincerely thank our partners for their support in making this event possible:

PROGRAMME

Morning Session

CET
07:30 – 08:00	Registration
08:00 – 08:05	Daniel Green (Faculty of Law, SFU / AALL) Welcome address and opening
08:05 – 08:40	KeynoteKarin LuttermannKommunikation im Recht: Linguistische Zugänge für Verständlichkeit und Vertrauen
08:40 – 08:55	BREAK
08:55 – 09:15	Patrick Lientschnig AI-judges in conflict with legal methodology? A discussion of possible implications on the Austrian legal system
09:15 – 09:35	*Tatiana Grieshofer* Informational justice: Provision of advice for lower civil courts
09:35 – 09:55	Katja Dobrić Basaneže Are metaphors in law universal?
09:55 – 10:10	BREAK
10:10 – 10:30	Annarita Felici Complex prepositions in multilingual legal language and translation
10:30 – 10:50	Simeon Oyedemi Ajiboye Constructing the knowledge of justice in Nigerian adjudicative discourses
10:50 – 11:10	Kevin Müller, Livia Sutter Funktionsverbgefüge in Deutschschweizer Rechtstexten
11:10 – 11:25	BREAK
11:25 – 11:45	Barbora Tomečková Macedonian: A controversial language and the European Union
11:45 – 12:05	Dawid Kostecki Polish legal education – what ought to be changed?
12:05 – 12:25	Waldemar Nazarov Untranslatability of law versus inequivalence of legal languages
12:25 – 13:10	LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session

CET
13:10 – 13:45	KeynoteKonrad Lachmayer Introducing translanguaging as a concept for comparative law
13:45 – 14:00	BREAK
14:00 – 14:20	Daniel Green A short history of the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL)
14:20 – 14:40	Sylvia Kummer Metaphoric expressions in legal discourse
14:40 – 15:00	Quetzalli Cruz Sosa Regional interpretations of human rights and business practices
15:00 – 15:20	BREAK
15:20 – 15:40	Martina Bajčić, Dejana Golenko How to empower law students in navigating legal information sources
15:40 – 16:00	*Špela Arhar Holdt, Senja Pollak, Ana Marija Sobočan* Linguistic accessibility of social assistance rights in Slovenia
16:00 – 16:20	Nigel Reynard Shall we, shan’t we? A review of the use of shall and will in contracts
16:20 – 16:40	Rafat Alwazna The use of automation in the rendition of certain articles of the Saudi Commercial Law into English: A post-editing-based comparison of five machine translation systems

Evening Session

17:00 – 17:20	Anna Sobota Dominance in consumer contracts
17:20 – 17:40	Ksenija Flack-Makitan, Mateja Martinjak Acronyms in professional legal writing and why the law seems to travel
17:40 – 18:00	Ondřej Glogar Tapping into a legal language corpus to explore legal terms
18.00 – 18:15	BREAK
18:15 – 18:35	Bojan Peric, Joshua BartholdiSachverhaltserstellung als Unterrichtsgegenstand
18:35 – 18:55	Kamran Aliyev Current challenges in legal marketing
18:55 – 19:15	Irina Gvelesiani The Anglo-American trust and the Liechtenstein Treuhänderschaft
19:15 – 19:30	BREAK
19:30 – 19:50	Michaela Rusch True colours or rainbow-washing exposed!? – Company pride in and through digital and social media reviewed
19:50 – 20:10	Melike Akay What “will” and “would” must and might imply: intentionality of modals in suicide notes versus threatening letters
20:10 – 20:30	Margret Mundorf AI legal writing literacy: A competence framework for future linguistic practice in law

Download the call for papers: click here

Call for Papers

The conference will host original and high-quality presentations covering a wide range of topics within the field of legal linguistics and forensic linguistics which may include, but are not limited to, the following areas of research:

1 Law and language

Theoretical legal linguistics; applied legal linguistics; legal semiotics, semantics and pragmatics; European legal linguistics; international business communication; statutory interpretation; law and computer–mediated communication; courtroom interpreting and legal translation; asylum procedure and human rights; sign language(s) and the legal system; the philosophy of language and law; linguistic rights and minorities around the globe; gender in legal language; law, language and sexual violence; research ethics in legal linguistics; historical legal linguistics;corpus linguistics and the law; disruptive technologies and the legal profession; COVID-19 and medico-legal communication; neuro/ psycholinguistics and the law; legal and political discourse, arbitration and restorative justice.

2 Law and language in education

Legal language teaching in Europe; legal curricula development; corpus linguistics and legal education; teaching law in the multilingual classroom; multilingualism in legal contexts; legal aptitude testing; learner corpora and moot courts; ethics in legal language teaching; disability and legal education; translanguaging in legal education.

3 Forensic linguistics

Issues in forensic linguistics and forensic phonetics; discourse analysis in forensic settings; authorship analysis and speaker identification; linguistic profiling; corpus analysis in forensic contexts; speaker variation and speaker recognition; language use of defendants, victims and the judiciary; expert testimony and linguistic evidence; expert opinions; plagiarism detection; language and forensic psychiatry.

Applications may be in English or German and can be submitted for formal paper presentations of 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes discussion), or poster presentations.

Applicants are invited to submit an abstract of between 200 and 250 words, including the title, theoretical background, research question(s) and methodology of their project by 1 October 2024.

Applicants should include 4-5 keywords and a short list of key references.

Applicants can submit two abstracts, provided one of them is co-authored.

Applicants should specify the intended presentation format in their proposal (formal paper presentation or poster presentation).

The abstract(s), along with full name and affiliation of the applicant(s), should be sent by email to legallinguistics2024@gmail.com and daniel.green@mail.sfu.ac.at

All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review.

Applicants will receive a decision on acceptance or rejection of their submission by 30 October 2024.

The conference fee for all participants and listeners is €50.00. Please note that registration for the conference will only be confirmed upon receipt of payment.

The AALL24 Organising Committee

Fritz-Schönherr-Symposium | Recht und Mehrsprachigkeit in der Europäischen Union

AALL24: Controversies in Legal Linguistics

Call for Papers

Fritz-Schönherr-Symposium |
Recht und Mehrsprachigkeit in der Europäischen Union