AALL24: Call for papers

Die 3. Internationale Konferenz der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Rechtslinguistik (AALL24) trägt den Titel Controversies in Legal Linguistics und findet am 13. Dezember 2024 an der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Sigmund Freud Universität Wien statt.

Es ist uns eine große Freude, Professor Konrad Lachmayer (Sigmund Freud Universität Wien) und Professor Karin Luttermann (Katholische Universität Eichstätt Ingolstadt) als diesjährigen Keynote Speaker willkommen zu heißen.

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Karin Luttermann (privat)

Kommunikation im Recht: Linguistische Zugänge für Verständlichkeit und Vertrauen
(Communication in Law: Linguistic Approaches for Clarity and Trust)

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

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

Keynote

Karin Luttermann

Kommunikation 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

Keynote

Konrad 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 Bartholdi

Sachverhaltserstellung 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

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