Conference – Language and law ‘in paradise’ (Brazil) | From Words to Deeds: translation & the law

Actually ‘paradise’ is just my interpretation 🙂 – Language and the Law – Bridging the Gaps is the first international conference to be jointly sponsored by ALIDI (the newly formed Association for Language and Law for Speakers of Portuguese) and the IAFL (International Association of Forensic Linguists). The official languages of the Conference will be English and Portuguese.
The conference will be hosted at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, Brazil.

A call for papers, posters, themed colloquia and roundtables is currently being made – topics include the following indicative but not exclusive list:

Language of the Law

Comparative Law
Philosophy of Law
Statutory Interpretation
The history of legal languages
The language of legal documents
Legal Translation
Legal genres
Critical approaches to legal language
The (in)comprehensibility of legal documents
Language rights
Language education for law professionals

Interaction in Legal Settings

Investigative interviewing
Courtroom, police and prison discourse
Interviewing and (cross-)examining vulnerable witnesses
Linguistic disadvantage before the law
Multilingualism and the legal system
Language minorities and the law
Pro-se defendants
Interpreting in legal contexts

Language as Evidence

Speaker identification and voice comparison
The linguist and phonetician as expert witnesses
Forensic phonetics and speaker identification
Forensic stylistics
Authorship analysis
Linguistic profiling
Plagiarism
The linguistic determination of nationality
Trademark disputes
Consumer product warnings
Deception and fraud

You can download abstract specifications, as well as keynote speakers, details about the conference venue (42 beaches!), travel discounts and accommodation below: