The ILLA General Conference is held every two years, complemented by a number of Focus Conferences, seminars and workshops in the interim periods. See below for an overview of past ILLA conferences and events.
ILLA General Conferences
Language and Law in an Age of Uncertainty and Transition
7th ILLA General Conference
3-5 September 2025, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Conference director: Jurate Ruzaite
Law, Language and Legal Knowledge
6th ILLA General Conference
20–22 September 2023, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
Conference director: Magdalena Szczyrbak
Language and Law in the Age of Migration
5th ILLA General Conference
7–9 September 2021, University of Alicante, Spain.
Conference director: Victoria Guillén-Nieto
Taking Language and Law Seriously
4th ILLA General Conference
11–14 September 2019, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Law School, USA.
Conference director: Frances Olsen
Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation and Social Conflicts. Relaunching the International Law and Language Association (ILLA) to Make Law More Transparent.
3rd ILLA General Conference
7–9 September 2017, University of Freiburg, Germany.
Conference director: Friedemann Vogel
The Pragmatic Turn: Interpretation and Inference in Legal Discourse
2nd ILLA General Conference
30 July-1 August 2014, Vancouver, UBC, Canada.
Conference directors: Janet Giltrow, UBC Vancouver, and Dieter Stein, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Language and Law
1st ILLA General Conference
May 2006, Düsseldorf, Germany. The conference was jointly organised by Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the Law School of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
Conference directors: Frances Olsen (UCLA), Alexander Lorz (HHU), Dieter Stein (HHU).