Thematic Areas

The 5th ILLA Conference will welcome abstract submissions dealing with topics that relate to any of the ten thematic areas listed below:

1. Language as the mirror of human rights issues in law and legal discourse. Coordinator: Frances Olsen (UCLA)

2. Inequality, discrimination and violence in language and law. Coordinator: Victoria Guillén (University of Alicante)

3. Experimental approaches to language, law and human rights. Coordinators: Benedikt Pirker & Jennifer Smolka (University of Fribourg)

4. The migrant’s language rights. Coordinator:  Anne Lisa Kjaer (University of Copenhagen)

5. Legal interpretation. Coordinator: Ralf Poscher (University of Freiburg)

6. Philosophy of law. Coordinator: Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki (Jagellonian University, Krakow)

7. Pragmatics of legal discourse. Coordinator: Dieter Stein (Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf)

8. Free speech in the arts. Coordinator: Anna Arzoumanov (Sorbonne University)

9. Discourse analytic approaches to power and justice in language and law. Coordinator: Meizhen Liao (Central China Normal University, Wuhan)

10. Historical perspectives on legal pragmatics. Coordinator: Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky, (University of Vienna)