A special workshop at the 24 World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy in Beijing, China: www.ivr2009.com
Coordinator:
Karen McAuliffe, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
Email: k.mcauliffe(a)exeter.ac.uk
Papers are invited for a workshop on law and language: making laws work in a globalised world, to take place at the IVR conference from 15 – 20 September 2009.
The study of language and law has, until recent years, focused largely on common law legal systems in English-speaking countries (with the notable exception of developments in the field of jurilinguistics in Canada). More recently, however, the relationship between language and law has ignited interest in many different legal and linguistic contexts around the world – in particular in China and in Europe in the context of multilingual law in the enlarged EU.
It is clear that, in today’s globalised world, therelationship between language and law is increasingly important in terms of understanding the possibilities and limits of governance under the rule of law; understanding how legal institutions function; gaining insights into the functioning of legal systems and fostering rule of law values (cf. Solan 2007).
Coordinator:
Karen McAuliffe, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
Email: k.mcauliffe(a)exeter.ac.uk
Papers are invited for a workshop on law and language: making laws work in a globalised world, to take place at the IVR conference from 15 – 20 September 2009.
The study of language and law has, until recent years, focused largely on common law legal systems in English-speaking countries (with the notable exception of developments in the field of jurilinguistics in Canada). More recently, however, the relationship between language and law has ignited interest in many different legal and linguistic contexts around the world – in particular in China and in Europe in the context of multilingual law in the enlarged EU.
It is clear that, in today’s globalised world, therelationship between language and law is increasingly important in terms of understanding the possibilities and limits of governance under the rule of law; understanding how legal institutions function; gaining insights into the functioning of legal systems and fostering rule of law values (cf. Solan 2007).
The proposed workshop aims to bring together scholars from law, linguistics, philosophy and psychology to investigate differing viewpoints on a single overarching theme: making laws work in a globalised world. The workshop will focus primarily on gaining insights into the functioning of legal systems globally – in particular China, the EU and the US/Canada and considering ‘the language questin’, not only in terms of monolingual legal language, but also in terms of the functioning of multilingual legal systems.
It is hoped that this special workshop will form the beginning of a research network on language and law (funding for which is currently being sought from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council).
Abstracts of 1000-4000 words should be sent to k.mcauliffe(a)exeter.ac.uk before 15
June 2009. The deadline for full papers is 15 July 2009.
All abstracts and papers for special workshops will be published on the congress website: www.ivr2009.com.
Please note: registration fees, travel and all other expenses are the responsibility of participants themselves.
It is hoped that this special workshop will form the beginning of a research network on language and law (funding for which is currently being sought from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council).
Abstracts of 1000-4000 words should be sent to k.mcauliffe(a)exeter.ac.uk before 15
June 2009. The deadline for full papers is 15 July 2009.
All abstracts and papers for special workshops will be published on the congress website: www.ivr2009.com.
Please note: registration fees, travel and all other expenses are the responsibility of participants themselves.
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