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The 10th International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS27)<\/strong> is currently in preparation.<\/h2>\n

Information on the conference theme, Call for Papers, venue, dates, keynote speakers, and registration will be published on this page as soon as it becomes available.<\/p>\n

We look forward to welcoming researchers and practitioners from around the world to the next edition of the International Legal Linguistics Workshop.<\/p>\n

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Programme of the 9th International Legal Linguistics Workshop<\/h1>\n

Emancipating Legal Linguistics: Hopes and Challenges for the Independence of an Interdiscipline<\/h3>\n

JUNE 18, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Location: Maison des Sciences sociales et des Humanit\u00e9s (MSH de Dijon), 6, esplanade Erasme, Dijon, France \u2013 Forum des savoirs<\/p>\n

08:00\u201309:00<\/strong> | Welcome & Coffee<\/p>\n

09:00\u201309:10<\/strong> | Opening (AALL & laboratoire TIL): Daniel Green & Waldemar Nazarov<\/p>\n

09:10\u201310:00<\/strong> | Keynote – Laurent Gautier (Dijon, France)<\/strong>: Towards a rhetoric of constitutional discourse? A study on performativity based on a German-language corpus (19th\u201320th centuries)<\/p>\n

10:15\u201311:45<\/strong> | Panel 1 \u2013 Institutions and Governance<\/p>\n

Jan Engberg (Aarhus, Denmark):<\/strong> When legal institutions communicate: What types of communities do they intend to construct with their audience?<\/p>\n

Janny Leung (Hong Kong, China)<\/strong>: Digital Multilingualism and Platform Governance (CUP 2026)<\/p>\n

Rasa Volungevi\u010dien\u0117 (Kaunas, Lithuania)<\/strong>: Mens Rea as a Linguistic Construct in Lithuanian Courtrooms: The Impact of Language in Cases of Financial Crimes<\/p>\n

11:45\u201312:00<\/strong> | Coffee break<\/p>\n

12:00\u201313:30<\/strong> | Panel 2 \u2013 Legal Linguistics as a Discipline<\/p>\n

Przemys\u0142aw Kusik (Krakow, Poland)<\/strong>: \u2018Juryslingwistyka\u2019 or \u2018Legilingwistyka\u2019? The Polish Experience as a Microcosm of the Emerging Field of Legal Linguistics<\/p>\n

Karin Luttermann (Ingolstadt, Germany)<\/strong>: Rechtslinguistik als Grundlagendisziplin: Sprache und Kommunikation<\/p>\n

Waldemar Nazarov (Mainz, Germany & Dijon, France)<\/strong>: Applying Frame Semantics to the Teaching of Legal Translation: A Legal-Linguistic Research Project at the Franco-German Law School of Paris-Panth\u00e9on-Assas University<\/p>\n

13:30\u201314:45<\/strong> | Lunch break: catering<\/p>\n

14:45\u201316:15<\/strong> | Panel 3 \u2013 Methodology and Analysis<\/p>\n

Claus Luttermann (Ingolstadt, Germany)<\/strong>: Rechtslinguistik als Grundlagendisziplin: Juristische Analyse menschlicher Kommunikation<\/p>\n

Vince Li\u00e9geois (Leuven, Belgium)<\/strong>: Comparative law terminology management: A proposal for new data-categories at the concept level<\/p>\n

Iyad Mohammed Shawqi Jadallah (Nablus, Palestine)<\/strong>: Bridging Legal Language and Financial Innovation: Regulatory Challenges in European Private Equity and Venture Capital<\/p>\n

16:15\u201316:30<\/strong> | Coffee break<\/p>\n

16:30\u201317:30<\/strong> | Panel 4 \u2013 Coherence and Clarity<\/p>\n

Marlies Alber & Katharina Dezini (Bolzano, Italy)<\/strong>: Rechtsterminologie der italienischen Rechtsordnung in deutscher Sprache f\u00fcr S\u00fcdtirol: Koh\u00e4renz oder Improvisation?<\/p>\n

Kevin M\u00fcller & Marlies Whitehouse (Zurich, Switzerland)<\/strong>: Verst\u00e4ndlichkeit von Strafbefehlen \u2013 Auswirkungen auf Gesellschaft und Beh\u00f6rden<\/p>\n

JUNE 19, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Location: Maison des Sciences sociales et des Humanit\u00e9s (MSH de Dijon), 6, esplanade Erasme, Dijon, France \u2013 Amphith\u00e9\u00e2tre<\/strong><\/p>\n

08:30\u201309:00<\/strong> | Welcome & Coffee<\/p>\n

09:00\u201309:15<\/strong> | Opening (AALL & laboratoire TIL): Daniel Green & Waldemar Nazarov<\/p>\n

09:15\u201310:45<\/strong> | Panel 5 (Hybrid) \u2013 Application and Interdisciplinarity<\/p>\n

Marijke de Belder & Bald de Vries (Utrecht, Netherlands)<\/strong>: An interdisciplinary approach to the codification of language and law<\/p>\n

Djordje Timotijevic (Belgrade, Serbia)<\/strong>: Relier th\u00e9orie et pratique : int\u00e9grer les approches th\u00e9oriques et appliqu\u00e9es du langage juridique<\/p>\n

Daniel Green (Rijeka, Croatia) & Peter A. Eschig (Vienna, Austria)<\/strong>: Indeterminacy and Homogenisation in Legal Language: Drafting Privacy Policies in the Age of Generative AI<\/p>\n

10:00\u201310:15<\/strong> | Coffee break<\/p>\n

10:15\u201311:00<\/strong> | Panel Discussion: Legal Linguistics \u2013 an emancipating discipline?<\/p>\n

11:00\u201311:15<\/strong> | Closing<\/p>\n

Call for Papers\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/h2>\n

The 9th<\/sup> International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS26)<\/a> will be held in Dijon 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 Universit\u00e9 Bourgogne Europe.<\/p>\n

The workshop will focus around the theme<\/p>\n

\u201cEmancipating Legal Linguistics: Hopes and Challenges for the Independence of an Interdiscipline.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Legal Linguistics has emerged in the Canadian tradition under the label jurilinguistique<\/em> 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<\/em>, and the Russian yurislingvistika<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/em>, or Rechtstranslatologie<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Submissions may seek to provide answers including but not limited to the following questions:<\/p>\n

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  1. How can Legal Linguistics be conceptualised as an emancipating discipline within the broader field of language and law?<\/li>\n
  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?<\/li>\n
  3. How do different legal-linguistic traditions (e.g., jurilinguistique<\/em>, Rechtslinguistik<\/em>, Anglophone and other regional approaches) inform, challenge, or complement one another?<\/li>\n
  4. In which ways can research on legal discourse, legal texts, and legal communication contribute to democratic societies and the needs of human beings?<\/li>\n
  5. How can theoretical and applied approaches to legal language be meaningfully and productively connected across contexts such as legislation, interpretation and translation?<\/li>\n
  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?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    ILLWS26 will be held in English<\/strong>, French<\/strong>, and German<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Submission Guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Applicants are invited to submit an abstract of 250 words<\/strong>, 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<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Please submit your abstract to\u00a0daniel.green@univie.ac.at<\/a>\u00a0and CC\u00a0wanazaro@uni-mainz.de<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0karin.luttermann@ku.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Deadline for abstract submission:<\/strong> 1 March 2026<\/p>\n

    Decision regarding acceptance or rejection by<\/strong> 31 March 2026<\/p>\n

    Conference fees EUR 50 per contributing scholar<\/strong>, to be transferred in full to the association bank account upon acceptance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Kindly note that, due to the prevailing geopolitical situation, the workshop may be conducted online if circumstances require it.<\/p>\n

    Organising Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Daniel Green<\/p>\n

    Karin Luttermann<\/p>\n

    Waldemar Nazarov<\/p>\n

    Laurent Gautier<\/p>\n

    Martina Baj\u010di\u0107<\/p>\n

    Claus Luttermann<\/p>\n

    Sarah Atkins<\/p>\n

    Matthias Eder<\/p>\n

    Daniel Kopp<\/p>\n

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    Bibliography<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Baj\u010di\u0107, M. (2025). Visualizing the cross-construction of EU-norms through CJEU’s interpretative methods. In M. H. Girard, A. Guigue, & F. Prieto Ramos (Eds.), Jurisprudence \u2013 Revue Critique<\/em> (No. 10, pp. 77\u201391). LGDJ.<\/p>\n

    Bari\u0107, S. (2013). The reasonableness principle in Italy: The practice of the Constitutional Court between interpretation and creation. Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu, 63(1), 127\u2013154.<\/p>\n

    Bhatia, V. K. (2010). Worlds of Written Discourse: A Genre-Theoretical Perspective<\/em>. Continuum.<\/p>\n

    Docrat, Z., de Vries, A., Kaschula, R. H., & Svongoro, P. (Eds.). (2025). Courtroom discourse: Practical insights from legal linguists<\/em> (Vol. 6, Studies in Forensic and Legal Linguistics and Beyond<\/em>). African Sun Media.<\/p>\n

    Eschig, P. A., & Calnan, R. (2022). Contract interpretation under Austrian and English law: A short comparison between civil law and common law from a doctrinal and practical legal perspective for linguists. In D. Green & L. Green (Eds.), Contemporary approaches to legal linguistics<\/em> (Rechtslinguistik, Vol.\u202f12, pp.\u202f3\u201322). LIT Verlag.<\/p>\n

    Gendron, C. (1978). La jurilinguistique: Contribution \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tude du langage juridique bilingue au Canada<\/em>. Presses de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Laval.<\/p>\n

    Gibbons, J. (2003). Forensic Linguistics: An Introduction to Language in the Justice System. Blackwell.<\/p>\n

    Glogar, O. (2023). The concept of legal language: What makes legal language \u2018legal\u2019? International Journal for the Semiotics of Law \u2013 Revue internationale de S\u00e9miotique juridique, 36<\/em>, 1081\u20131107.<\/p>\n

    Green, D. (Ed.). (2025). The future of teaching law and language (Forum f\u00fcr Fachsprachen-Forschung, Vol. 172). Frank & Timme.<\/p>\n

    Green, D., & Green, L. (Eds.). (2022). Contemporary approaches to legal linguistics<\/em> (Rechtslinguistik, Vol. 12). LIT Verlag<\/p>\n

    Lavissi\u00e8re, M. C., Cartron, A., & Gautier, L. (Eds.). (2025). Legal language and the sea<\/em> (Foundations in Language and Law, Vol. 4). De Gruyter Mouton.<\/p>\n

    Luttermann, C., & Luttermann, K. (2020). Sprachenrecht f\u00fcr die Europ\u00e4ische Union: Wohlstand, Referenzsprachensystem und Rechtslinguistik<\/em>. Mohr Siebeck.<\/p>\n

    Luttermann, K. (1999). \u00dcbersetzen juristischer Texte als Arbeitsfeld der Rechtslinguistik. In G.-R. de Groot & R. Schulze (Eds.), Recht und \u00dcbersetzen<\/em> (pp. 47\u201357). Nomos.<\/p>\n

    Luttermann, K., & Busch, A. (Eds.). (2021). Sprache und Recht: Konstitutions\u2011 und Transferprozesse in nationaler und europ\u00e4ischer Dimension<\/em> (Rechtslinguistik, Vol.\u202f11). LIT Verlag.<\/p>\n

    Luttermann, K., Kazzazi, K., & Luttermann, C. (Eds.). (2019). Institutionelle und individuelle Mehrsprachigkeit<\/em> (Rechtslinguistik, Vol.\u202f10). LIT Verlag.<\/p>\n

    Nazarov, W. (2025). Frame-basierte Rechts\u00fcbersetzung: Frame-Semantik als ontologisches und rechtstranslatorisches Analyseinstrument am Beispiel franz\u00f6sischer und bundesdeutscher Rechtstermini<\/em> (Kontraste\/Contrastes, Band 9). Peter Lang.<\/p>\n

    \u0160ar\u010devi\u0107, S. (1997). New Approach to Legal Translation<\/em>. Kluwer Law International.<\/p>\n

    Tiersma, P. M. (1999). Legal Language<\/em>. University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n

    Vogel, F. (Ed.). (2019). Legal linguistics beyond borders: Language and law in a world of media, globalisation and social conflicts: Relaunching the International Language and Law Association (ILLA)<\/em> Duncker & Humblot.<\/p>\n

    Call for Papers text: Green\/Luttermann\/Nazarov.<\/p>\n

    In cooperation with the Laboratoire Texte, Image, Langage (TIL) at the Universit\u00e9 Bourgogne Europe.<\/p>\n

    \"Schoenherr<\/p>\n

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    Fritz-Sch\u00f6nherr-Symposium |
    Recht und Mehrsprachigkeit in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union<\/h1>\n

    Praktische Perspektiven f\u00fcr die grenz\u00fcberschreitende anwaltliche Arbeit<\/p>\n

    13. November 2025 | 18:00 Uhr | Schottenring 19, 1010 Wien<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Die\u00a0\u00d6sterreichische Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Rechtslinguistik<\/strong>\u00a0(\u00d6GRL) und\u00a0Sch\u00f6nherr <\/strong>Rechtsanw\u00e4lte<\/strong>\u00a0beehren sich, zum diesj\u00e4hrigen Fritz-Sch\u00f6nherr-Symposium einzuladen.<\/p>\n

    Fritz Sch\u00f6nherr<\/strong> (1920\u20131984) pr\u00e4gte als Rechtsanwalt und Universit\u00e4tsprofessor das \u00f6sterreichische Wirtschaftsrecht wie kein anderer. Sein Wirken als Rechtsanwalt, Dolmetscher und Rechtsdidaktiker steht beispielhaft f\u00fcr die enge Verbindung von\u00a0Recht und Sprache<\/strong>, die auch im Zentrum dieser Veranstaltung steht:<\/p>\n