International Language and Law Association
The International Language and Law Association , ILLA, is an international and interdisciplinary research association for the study of the language and mediality of law.
history
The International Language and Law Association was initiated in 2007 at the fifth "Berlin conference on open access" (Padua, Italy) by the linguists and lawyers Lawrence Solan, Peter Tiersma and Dieter Stein. After an orientation phase, the Association was re-established in 2017 at the first ILLA World Congress in Freiburg (September 7–9, 2017) under the motto "Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalization and Social Conflicts" and a statute was adopted. The American professor of law, Frances Olsen (Los Angelas) and the German professor of socio- and discourse linguistics, Friedemann Vogel (Siegen) were elected as founding presidents of ILLA . The members of the ILLA come from 50 nations.
Subject and goals
The aim of the ILLA is the interdisciplinary research into the relationship between language, media and law. The focus is on the question of how legal norms are constituted through language and media and how language and law contribute to the reproduction of political power . The translatability of legal texts, the mediatization of legal practices , genres and types of text in law, patterns of conversation and speech acts before national and international courts, possibilities for optimizing legal language and legal methodology , linguistic procedures for recognizing offenders ( forensic linguistics ), etc. are examined . a. As an umbrella association, the ILLA promotes worldwide cooperation between scientists and practitioners working on these topics in universities, the judiciary , legislation and administration .
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Individual evidence
- ^ International Language and Law Association: On History. Accessed April 27, 2018 (English).