Conference – Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics (Legal Linguistics), Poznan, Poland

2938852531_a7f2bd7201_bThe Institute of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University is holding its annual international conference devoted to language and the law over 3 days, from 19 to 21 June 2015 (Friday-Sunday) in Poznan, Poland.

The aim is to provide a forum for discussion where linguistic and legal interests converge, and to facilitate integration between linguists, computer scientists and lawyers from all around the world.

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Open Access International Journal for Legal Communication

IMG_1455 - Version 3Comparative Legilinguistics – International Journal for Legal Communication is published each quarter by the Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.

It contains articles, reviews and reports in English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian. The articles are peer-reviewed by two reviewers (double-blind review). 

Comparative Legilinguistics is devoted mainly to legi-linguistics (legal linguistics), forensic linguistics, theory of the law and legal language, and legal translation.

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Reporting from Poznan – Part 2

This second post on the conference Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics, held in Poznan recently, contains a selection of the papers presented. My apologies to those people whose presentations have not been included for reasons of space. However, the full proceedings will be available at the end of the year, and I will post an update when they are available.

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Reporting from Poznan – Part 1

Having been quite busy traveling around recently, today I would like to offer you the first of two posts reporting on the Seventh Conference on Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics (Legal Linguistics), held at the Institute of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, from 29 June to 1 July 2012.

I have summarized only a selection of talks, to give you a taster, but the full official proceedings of the conference are to be published at the end of the year.

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Conference – Legal Linguistics, Poznań, Poland

Seventh Conference on Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics (Legal Linguistics)

 The Institute of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University will hold an international conference devoted to language and the law. The aim is to provide a forum for discussion in those scientific fields where linguistic and legal interests converge, and to facilitate integration between linguists, computer scientists and lawyers from all around the world.

The conference will be held over 3 days, from 29th June to 1st July 2012 in Poznan, Poland.

For more information see the conference website.