The ILLA General Conference is held every two years, complemented by a number of Focus Conferences and workshops in the interim periods. See below for an overview of past ILLA conferences and events. For a list of upcoming ILLA events, please see the Upcoming Events section.
ILLA General Conferences
- Language and Law in the Age of Migration
(Fifth ILLA General Conference)
7–9 September 2021, University of Alicante, Spain; Conference director: Victoria Guillén
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- Taking Language and Law Seriously
(Fourth ILLA General Conference)
11–14 September 2019, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Law School, USA; Conference director: Frances Olsen
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- Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation and Social Conflicts
Refounding the International Law and Language Association (ILLA) to Make Law more transparent
(Third General and Relaunch Conference)
7–9 September 2017, University of Freiburg, Germany; Conference director: Friedemann Vogel
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- The pragmatic Turn: interpretation and inference in legal discourse
(Second ILLA General Conference)
July 2015, Vancouver, UBC, Canada; Conference directors: Janet Giltrow UBC Vancouver and Dieter Stein, University of Düsseldorf; Volume with papers submitted to Mouton de Gruyter, "The pragmatic turn in law. Inference and Interpretation in legal discourse." (Eds. Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein)
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- Language and Law
(First ILLA General Conference)
May 2006; Düsseldorf, Germany jointly organised by Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf and Law School University of California at Los Angeles; Conference director: Frances Olsen (UCLA), Alexander Lorz (Düsseldorf), Dieter Stein (Düsseldorf); Resulting publications: Frances Olsen, Alexander Lorz and Dieter Stein, "Law and Language: Theory and Society", DUP Düsseldorf University Press, Düsseldorf, 2008; Frances Olsen, Alexander Lorz and Dieter Stein, "Translation Issues in Language and Law", Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2009
ILLA Focus Conferences
- 4th ILLA Focus Conference: The Digitalisation of Legal Discourse: Digital Genres, Media and Analytical Tools
16–17 December 2021, University of Bergamo, Italy
» Read more - 3rd ILLA Focus Conference on Forensic Linguistics
6 September 2021, University of Alicante, Spain
» Read more - Spotlight on Courts: Judges and their Discourse from a Multidisciplinary Perspective
4–5 March 2021, University of Lodz, Poland
» Read more - Computers, Language, and Law: Spotlight on Blind Spots
The First ILLA Focus Workshop in Copenhagen, September 2018
7–8 September 2018, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
Organiser: Anne-Lise Kjær, iCourts, RELINE network
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Activities of the ILLA PhD Network
- Second ILLA PhD Colloquium at ILLA 2021 Alicante
5 September 2021 (virtual event) - Junior Researcher Panel at ILLA 2017 Freiburg
6 September 2017, University of Freiburg, Germany
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Other Conferences or Workshops on Legal Linguistics
- The pragmatics of legal discourse
Workshop at the fourth meeting of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA-4) will be held at the State University of New York, Albany on November 1–3. 2018; Organizers: Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein - Jurilinguistics II
Interdisicplinary Approaches to the Study of Language and Law will be held at Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain on October 25–26. 2018. Organizers: Jurilinguistica
» Read more - Legal and institutional translation policies: An interdisciplinary inquiry into past, present and future challenges. Conference will be held at KU Leuven, Belgium on September 20–22. 2018; Organisers: "Translation and Intercultural Transfer", "Leuven centre for Public Law", "CETRA"
» Read more - The Words of the Law.
"V International Seminar on English and ESP Lexicology and Lexicography: The Words of the Law" will be held at the University of Alicante (Spain) on April 26–27, 2018. Organizers: The Lexicology of Languages for Specific Purposes Research Group (LexEsp)
» Read more - The fabric of law and language. Discovering Patterns Through Legal Corpus Linguistics
18–19 March 2016, Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Legal corpus pragmatics. The challenge posed to law by theories of media and language
25–27 April 2013, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany
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