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)
September 7th – 9th, 2021, University of Alicante, Spain; Conference director: Victoria Guillén
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- Taking Language and Law Seriously
(Fourth ILLA General Conference)
September 11th – 14th 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)
September 7th – 9th, 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
- Spotlight on Courts: Judges and their Discourse from a Multidisciplinary Perspective
March 4th-5th, 2021, University of Lodz, Poland
» Read more - Computers, Language, and Law: Spotlight on Blind Spots
The First ILLA Focus Workshop in Copenhagen, September 2018
September 7th – 8th, 2018, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
Organiser: Anne-Lise Kjær, iCourts, RELINE network
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Activities of the ILLA PhD Network
- Junior Researcher Panel at ILLA 2017 Freiburg
September 6th, 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; Organizers: "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
March 18th – 19th 2016, Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Legal corpus pragmatics. The challenge posed to law by theories of media and language
April 25th – 27th 2013, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany
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