Computers, Language, and Law (Copenhagen 2018)

 
Call for papers - Extended Deadline: February 15th, 2018

Computers, Language, and Law: Spotlight on Blind Spots
The First ILLA Focus Workshop in Copenhagen, September 2018

Time: 7-8 September 2018
Place: iCourts Centre of Excellence for International Courts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Karen Blixens Plads 16, 2300 Copenhagen S
Organizer: ILLA in cooperation with iCourts and the RELINE network.

Computers and quantitative research methods are increasingly used in Law-and Language scholarship. Corpus linguistics can assist researchers in uncovering patterns of language use in law and legal texts which would otherwise go undetected, and computer-aided research endows results with a degree of reliability and validity normally ascribed to natural science.

The fascination of computer-aided research and big data, however, may blind law-and-language scholars to the fact that computers and electronic corpora can never ask the intriguing questions or deliver the cognitive interest which should be the driving force behind any successful research endeavour.

The first ILLA Focus Workshop invites scholars from law, linguistics, and computer science who have specialized in studying problems of law or aspects of legal language through the lens of computers to present work in progress with a view to considering the cognitive interest which they pursue, how computers and quantitative data can help or not help in what we are researching, and how the aid of computers may or may not affect the way we approach our research or the questions that we ask.

Papers for the workshop will be selected through a review process and presented during a two-day workshop. Each paper will be assigned a discussant. The atmosphere of the workshop will be informal and will give the participants an opportunity to present and discuss their ongoing research in a stimulating and interdisciplinary setting.

Scholars working on the language/languages and case law of international and European courts, are especially encouraged to contribute.

Important dates:

  • Extended Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 15 February 2018
  • Notification of acceptance:  15 February 2018
  • Registration: Between 15 February and 15 August 2018.
  • Deadline for the submission of extended abstracts: 7 August 2018
  • Dates of the workshop: 7-8 September 2018

Length of abstracts: between 200 and 250 words, excluding references.
Length of extended abstracts: 1500 words, excluding references.
The online submission system will be accessible on the website of iCourts as from 1 November 2017.

More Details and registration form at:
http://jura.ku.dk/icourts/calendar/computers-language-law