The Presidents and Executive Commitee represent the International Language and Law Association both within the community and in public. Both have been elected for a period of two years at the latest ILLA conference held in Los Angeles, CA, USA in 2019; At ILLA, the two presidential posts are always held by one linguist and one lawyer.
 

Presidents of the ILLA

President Prof. em. Dr. Dieter Stein Professor Emeritus of English Language and Linguistics at Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, studies theory and practice open access publishing, pragmatics, language and commuication in law, language change, syntactic variation and meaning, language and law, the language of the internet, and the linguistics of hypertext. Dieter Stein was one of the founders of ILLA alongside Lawrence Solan and Peter Tiersma. Academic Website

Vice President Prof. Dr. Magdalena Szczyrbak Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University, Poland and the Department of English and American Studies, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. Her research interests include discourse analysis, pragmatics and corpus linguistics applied to the study of stance-related phenomena in expert discourse and legal genres. Academic Website

Executive Secretary

Prof. Dr. Victoria Guillén Nieto Tenured Assiciate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Department of English Studies (Faculty of Philosophy and Arts) at the University of Alicante, Spain. Academic Website

Members-at-large

Prof. Janet Olsen Professor of law at UCLA and a noted member of the school of Feminist Legal Theory. Academic Website
Prof. Dr. Friedemann Vogel Professor of General and Socio-/Discourse Linguistics at University of Siegen, Germany. His research focuses on legal linguistics, language in computer mediated communication, paradigms of democratic speech and computer assisted methods in discourse analysis. Academic Website
Prof. Dr. Anne Lise Kjær Associate Professor of Legal Linguistics at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, and initiator of RELINE. She mainly works with the role of language, translation and discourse in European legal integration and is especially concerned with the possibility of developing autonomous, transnational legal concepts. Academic Website

Former Presidents

• PD Dr. Benedikt Pirker, LL.M. (2021-2023)
  Senior Lecturer at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His main fields of research are international and EU law, with a particular focus on issues of law and language and law and linguistics.
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• Prof. Dr. Victoria Guillén Nieto (2019–2021)
  Tenured Assiciate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Department of English Studies (Faculty of Philosophy and Arts) at the University of Alicante, Spain.
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• Prof. Dr. Frances Olsen (2019–2021)Professor of law at UCLA (US) and a noted member of the school of Feminist Legal Theory. She teaches Feminist Legal Theory, Dissidence & Law, Family Law, and Torts. Her areas of research interest include legal theory, social change and feminism.
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• Prof. Dr. Friedemann Vogel (2017–2019, Founding President)
  Professor of General and Socio-/Discourse Linguistics at University of Siegen, Germany. His research focuses on legal linguistics, language in computer mediated communication, paradigms of democratic speech and computer assisted methods in discourse analysis.
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Former Members of the Steering Committee

• Prof. Dr. Lawrence Solan (2017–2019)
  Professor of Law and Director of Graduate Education at Brooklyn Law School in New York (USA). Solan holds both a law degree and a Ph.D. in linguistics. His scholarly works are largely devoted to exploring interdisciplinary issues related to law, language and psychology, especially in the areas of statutory and contractual interpretation, the attribution of liability and blame, and linguistic evidence.
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