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Current Legal Issues Colloquium 2011 - Law and Language
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About the Convenors |
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Michael Freeman |
Michael Freeman joined the Faculty in 1969 after lecturing at the University of Leeds. He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Children's Rights; Editor of the International Journal of Law in Context, General Editor of International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law and of the International Library of Family, Society and Law and former Editor of the Annual Survey of Family Law. He was editor of Current Legal Problems.
He is widely published in the areas of Family Law, Child Law and Policy, Children's Rights, Medicine, Ethics and the Law and Medical Law, Jurisprudence and Legal Theory, and other areas of law and policy. Michael's research interests are in the rights of children and in medical ethics particularly in relation to medically assisted reproduction and the Ethics of Public Health. |
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Fiona Smith |
Fiona Smith is a Senior Lecture at UCL's Fauclty of Law. Her research interests have focused on international agricultural trade law under the GATT and WTO and the philosophical underpinnings of the WTO regime. Her book Agriculture and the WTO: Towards a New Theory of International Agricultural Trade Regulation (2009) for Edward Elgar arguing for a different theoretical understanding of the problem of international agricultural trade.
She is currently working on a project on the influence of the philosopher John Gray in forming contemporary conceptual understanding of international trade theory in the WTO with Professor Sean Coyle, University of Exeter. Fiona was appointed a Visiting Scholar to University of Minnesota Law School for Fall 2008 where she worked with Professor Brian Bix on the philosophy of language (semantics) and its application to the understanding of language in treaty rules like the WTO's. The result should be an insight into how we can draft international treaties more effectively. |
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About the Speakers |
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| Naveed Ahmad | Dr. Naveed Ahmad is currently working on a post doctoral level research project that deals with Simplification of Legal English at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, U.K. He has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Department of Linguistics and School of Law, University of Pittsburgh, USA with reference to his PhD in the field of Language and Law. He has presented and written extensively on English for academic and occupational legal purposes. Additionally, Mr. Ahmad has interest in representation of ideologies in legal texts. He holds a position of Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. | |
| Janet Ainsworth | Janet Ainsworth is the John D. Eshelman Professor of Law at Seattle University. Before joining the faculty in 1988, she practiced law at the Seattle-King County Public Defender Association. Her research interests include criminal law and procedure, juvenile justice, comparative legal theory, imperial Chinese law, and law and linguistics. The author of more than a dozen book chapters, she has published articles in law reviews such as the Yale Law Journal, the Cornell Law Review, and the Washington University Law Quarterly as well as peer reviewed linguistics journals such as Forensic Linguistics, Gender and Language, Multilingua, and the International Journal of Speech, Language and Law. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Law and Semiotics, the International Journal of Law, Language and Discourse, and the Oxford University Press series, Law and Language.
In addition to scholarly writing and presentations, Professor Ainsworth is active in a number of other professional endeavors. She has served on the Executive Committee of the Criminal Justice Section and as chair of the Law and Anthropology Section of the American Association of Law Schools and has served on several committees of the Law and Society Association. Her pro bono activities include membership on the Board of Directors of the Seattle-King County Public Defender, writing amicus curiae briefs to the Washington State Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court, serving as a member of Washington State Supreme Court Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions, and serving as consultant to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, from which she received its Outstanding Service Award in recognition of her contributions. |
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| Michelle Aldridge-Waddon | Michelle Aldridge-Waddon is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication at Cardiff University. Her research interests are the experiences of vulnerable witnesses (particularly children, rape victims and people with a disability) within the legal system. She is involved in police interview training and has organized conferences in child language acquisition, forensic linguistics and cognitive linguistics. Publications include Interviewing Children: A Guide for Child are and Forensic Practitioners (with J. Wood), and a special edition of the Journal of English Linguistics (edited with June Luchjenbroers) dealing with vulnerable witnesses. | |
| Antony Amatrudo | Dr. Anthony Amatrudo is currently Programme Leader for Criminology at the University of Sunderland and a Visiting Scholar at St. Edmund's College,, Cambridge, having previously been a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the Central European University in Budapest and a Fortbildungsstipendien at the Max Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht in Freiburg. He publishes in the area of criminological and legal theory and is author of 'Criminology and Political Theory' (Sage: 2009). He is currently writing a monograph for Ashgate on the issue of legal responsibility and criminal culpability. He maintains an interest in the role of language and expert status in legal contexts and in the way that modern media assists the construction of personal attitudes and wider political agendas. | |
| Hrafn Asgeirsson | Hrafn Asgeirsson is currently a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. His current research focuses primarily on the broad intersection of philosophy of law and philosophy of language, but he also has a great interest in metaethics, philosophical logic, and decision theory. In his dissertation, Hrafn investigates how certain semantic and pragmatic notions play out in the law. In particular, the goal is to try to understand what are the consequences of semantic underdetermination and semantic and pragmatic indeterminacy for the determination of legal content. His paper 'Vagueness and power-delegation in law: A reply to Sorensen', to be presented at the UCL Law & Language Colloquium, won the Australian Society for Legal Philosophy Annual Essay Competition in 2011. | |
| Kim Barker | Kim is a PhD Researcher at Aberystwyth University. Her main area of research lies in the field of online gaming, intellectual and virtual property rights. She has recently presented papers at major information law conferences in Manchester, and more recently at ICIL in Greece, both on the subject of copyright and contractual obligations in online games. Kim completed her LLB at Aberystwyth in 2008 before moving to Nottingham where she completed the LPC and an LLM in Professional Practice before returning to academic study. | |
| Oren Ben-Dor | Oren Ben-Dor is a Reader in the Philosophy of Law at Southampton University. He is the author of 'Constitutional Limits and the Public Sphere: a Critical Reconstruction of Bentham's Constitutionalism (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2000) and Thinking about Law: In Silence with Heidegger (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2007). He is the editor of Law and Art: Ethics, Aesthetics Justice,( London: Routledge 2011). Oren is working on the relationship between Ontology and ethics and the implications this relationship has to thinking with and through law contemplating how language constitutes the condition of possibility of critical thinking in response to suffering | |
| Brian Bix | Brian Bix is the Frederick W. Thomas Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, where he writes and teaches in Jurisprudence, Family Law, and Contract Law. He holds a J.D. from Harvard University and D. Phil. from Balliol College, Oxford. His published books include Law, Language and Legal Determinacy (Oxford, 1993), A Dictionary of Legal Philosophy (Oxford, 2004), and Jurisprudence: Theory and Context (5th ed., Sweet & Maxwell, 2009). In the area of law and language, his recent articles include “Legal Interpretation and the Philosophy of Language,” in Oxford Handbook on Language and Law (Lawrence Solan & Peter Tiersma, eds., forthcoming, Oxford, 2012); “Constitutions, Originalism, and Meaning,” in The Challenge of Originalism: Essays in Constitutional Theory (Grant Huscroft & Bradley Miller, eds., forthcoming, Cambridge, 2011); “Law and Language: How Words Mislead Us,” Jurisprudence, vol. 1, pp. 25-38 (2010); “Will versus Reason: Truth in Natural Law, Positive Law, and Legal Theory,” in Truth: Studies of a Robust Presence (Kurt Pritzl, ed., Catholic University of America Press, 2010), pp. 208-231; “Global Error and Legal Truth,” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 29, pp. 535-547 (2009); “Cautions and Caveats for the Application of Wittgenstein to Legal Theory,” in Topics in Contemporary Philosophy (Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O=Rourke & David Shier, eds., MIT Press, 2005), pp. 217-229; and “Can Theories of Meaning and Reference Solve the Problem of Legal Determinacy?,” Ratio Juris, vol. 16, pp. 281-295 (2003). | |
| Steven Cammis | Steven Cammiss is a lecturer in law at the University of Leicester. He has a longstanding interest in law and language, with a particular focus on language use in interaction in legal settings. His PhD utilised narrative analysis to examine narrative production in the courtroom within the mode of trial hearing. His latest project (with Colin Manchester of the University of Warwick) adopts a socio-linguistic and ethnnomethodological approach to explore the language of complaining in a legal setting (objecting to a licensing application). He is a member of Leicester University's Language and Interaction Research Assembly. | |
| Robyn Carston | Robyn Carston is Professor of Linguistics at University College London. Her main research interests are in semantics/pragmatics, explicit/implicit communication and relevance theory. She has published a monograph "Thoughts and Utterances: the Pragmatics of Explicit Communication" (Blackwell, 2002) and is currently preparing a collection of her papers, to be published under the title "Pragmatics and Semantic Content" (Oxford University Press). She is a research coordinator of the ‘Linguistic Agency’ project at the ‘Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature’ in Oslo. | |
| Ross Charnock | Ross Charnock took his doctorate in linguistic pragmatics in Paris during the early 80s, under Prof. Oswald Ducrot. Now Senior Lecturer at the Université of Paris-Dauphine, he specialises in the linguistics of the law, publishing mainly on argumentation and semantics in common law judgments. He is a member of the Centre de Recherche sur la ‘Common Law’ (CRCL-CREA) at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre, and has developed a specialised linguistic corpus of English and American legal judgments and opinions, currently amounting to over 30 million words. Recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Pragmatics and in the International Journal of the Semiotics of Law. He also continues to publish regularly on classical music for strings. His biodata and a selection of his articles are available on : https:// sites. google.com/ site/ celluledelinguistique/ Accueil-CRL /membres /ross-charnock | |
| Marianne Constable | Marianne Constable is Professor of Rhetoric and holds the Zaffaroni Family Chair in Undergraduate Education at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law (Princeton University Press, 2005) and The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changes in Conceptions of Citizenship, Law and Knowledge (University of Chicago Press, 1994 and winner of the Law and Society Association's J. Willard Hurst Prize in Legal History). She has published articles on, among other topics, Foucault and immigration law, Nietzsche and jurisprudence, the rhetoric of "community," the role of law in the liberal arts, Frederick Schauer on rules, Robert Cover on violence, Montesquieu on systems and Vico on legal education. She has also co-edited two books on law and society and has served on numerous editorial boards relating to law and humanities and law and society. She was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton during 2005-06; her awards include the NEH, a prize for undergraduate research mentoring at UCB, the Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award, and the James Boyd White Award. She is working on two projects: a history of the "new unwritten law," which ostensibly exonerated women who killed their husbands in Chicago a century ago; and a book on legal speech acts entitled “Our Word is Our Bond” from which her paper for this conference comes.. |
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| Paul S Davies | Paul Davies is a Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He was previously a Research Assistant at the Law Commission. His teaching and research interests lie in the law of private obligations and property, and he is a contributing editor of Snell's Equity. | |
| Alan Durant | Alan Durant is Professor of Communication at Middlesex University Business School, London. As well as shorter publications on copyright and trademark law, his recent work includes 'Meaning in the Media: Discourse, Controversy and Debate' (CUP, 2010), which looks particularly at language in defamation, advertising law and regulation of offensiveness, and the textbook 'Language and Media', co-written with Marina Lambrou (Routledge, 2009). | |
| Catrin Fflur Huws | Dr Catrin Fflur Huws is the Director of the Centre for Welsh Legal Affairs at Aberystwyth University, a research centre that was set up in 1999 as a focus for the University’s Department of Law and Criminology’s work on devolution and the role of Wales in the legal process. Her research focuses primarily on minority languages and human rights and the interpretation of bilingual legislation. She has also conducted research into affordable housing, the interpretation of wills and the significance of the mortgage in Love’s Labour’s Lost. | |
| Luna Filipovic | Luna Filipovic is a Leverhulme Trust & Newton Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge. The title of her current research project is Bilingual Witness Report and Translation. She was previously an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, University College London (2005-2008) and while there she completed her research on Language Effects on Memory of Events. She received her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, where she has taught the subjects of Semantics and Pragmatics and Structures and Meanings. She teaches Forensic Linguistics for the University of California Summer Programmes at Pembroke College, Cambridge and King’s College, Cambridge. Her research interests are in the areas of psycholinguistics and forensic linguistics, with a focus on bilingualism, language typology and language effects on memory. | |
| Adolfo Giuliani | ||
| Simone Glanert | After studying philosophy and law in Germany, Dr Simone Glanert moved to France where she earned an undergraduate degree in French law, a postgraduate degree in comparative legal studies and a PhD from the Sorbonne. She is also an LLM graduate from Cornell Law School. Dr Glanert teaches French law, comparative law and statutory interpretation at the University of Kent, where she co-directs the Center for European and Comparative Law. Over the past years, she has acted as visiting professor at the Sorbonne, in Grenoble (France) and in Timisoara (Romania). Dr Glanert’s research focuses on theoretical issues arising from the practice of comparative law in the context of globalization and Europanization. Representative publications include De la traductibilité du droit (Dalloz, 2011; forthcoming), "Method?", in Pier Giuseppe Monateri (ed.), Methods of Comparative Law (Elgar, 2011; forthcoming); "Comparaison et traduction des droits: à l'impossible tous sont tenus", in Pierre Legrand (ed.), Comparer les droits, résolument (Presses Universitaires de France, 2009); and "Speaking Language to Law: The Case of Europe", (2008) 28 Legal Studies 161. | |
| Peter Goodrich | ||
| Claire Grant | Claire Grant is Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Leicester. Her field is political philosophy and the philosophy of law, and is mainly focused on problems of freedom, power and equality. In her work she has looked at things like the nature and value of law, the connections between law and injustice, and the uses and abuses of rights. Claire is a graduate of the University of Cambridge. She completed her studies and began her teaching career as a Munro Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Since then she has visited and taught at several other Universities, most recently at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Warwick. Claire is co-convenor of the Analytic Legal & Political Philosophy Conference with Professors John Gardner, Leslie Green and Matthew Kramer. Some recent publications are: The Legacy of H.L.A.Hart: Legal, Moral and Political Philosophy (ed., with Matthew Kramer et. al.) Oxford University Press; 2009 ‘Compensation and the Exercise of Rights’ in Melissa Lane (ed.), Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik/Annual Review of Law and Ethics 17: 277; 2007 ‘Number and Government’ in Ross Harrison and Michael Freeman (eds.), Law & Philosophy Oxford University Press. Claire's paper for the Law & Language Colloquium comes from a wider project that she is currently undertaking, focused around the following strands of inquiry: the nature of oppression and the political agency of the oppressed; what law has to do with oppression; law and epistemic injustice; the victim’s prerogative. | |
| David Gurnham | ||
| Andrew Halpin | Andrew Halpin is currently a Research Professor at Swansea University and will be taking up a chair in the Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore in the coming academic year. His research interests range widely over legal theory and related academic disciplines. His most recent book is a coedited collection, Theorising the Global Legal Order (Hart Publishing, 2009), with work on law and language appearing in previous books, Reasoning with Law and Definition in the Criminal Law (both Hart) and an article in the 2005 Virginia Law Review, “Or, Even, What the Law Can Teach the Philosophy of Language: A Response to Green’s Dworkin’s Fallacy”. | |
| Michael Hancher | Michael Hancher, professor of English at the University of Minnesota, has published many essays, book chapters, and a book about British Victorian writers and artists, as well as articles on intention and interpretation, speech-act theory, pragmatics, and the law. The latter group includes "Three Kinds of Intention," "Dead Letters: Wills and Poems," "The Law of Signatures," and "Littera scripta manet: Blackstone and Electronic Text." His account of Macaulay's construction of the East India Act of 1813 is part of a larger study of the origins of the discipline of English in India and Great Britain. An active member of the Dictionary Society of North America (currently its president), he has also published articles on pictorial illustration in dictionaries, including "Definition and Depiction," Word and Image 26 (2010), which explains why a picture is worth a thousand words.Michael Hancher, professor of English at the University of Minnesota, has published many essays, book chapters, and a book about British Victorian writers and artists, as well as articles on intention and interpretation, speech-act theory, pragmatics, and the law. The latter group includes “Three Kinds of Intention,” “Dead Letters: Wills and Poems,” “The Law of Signatures,” and “Littera scripta manet: Blackstone and Electronic Text.” His account of Macaulay’s construction of the East India Act of 1813 is part of a larger study of the origins of the discipline of English in India and Great Britain. An active member of the Dictionary Society of North America (currently its president), he has also published articles on pictorial illustration in dictionaries, including "Definition and Depiction," Word and Image 26 (2010), which explains why a picture is worth a thousand words. | |
| Eric Heinze | Eric Heinze is Professor of Law and Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. He received his JD from Harvard Law School and his PhD from the University of Leiden, in addition to undergraduate and post-graduate study at the Université de Paris (Licence, Maîtrise) and the Freie Universität Berlin. His experience includes work for the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva and the United Nations Administrative Tribunal, and consultation with Amnesty International and Liberty. He is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Human Rights. His books include The Logic of Constitutional Rights (2005); The Logic of Liberal Rights (2003); The Logic of Equality (2003) and Sexual Orientation: A Human Right (1995) (Russian translation 2004), as well as an edited collection entitled Of Innocence and Autonomy: Children, Sex and Human Rights (2000). He has recently contributed chapters to such anthologies as Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights (2011), Extreme Speech and Democracy (2009), and Religious Pluralism and Human Rights (Loenen & Goldschmidt, 2006), and articles in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Harvard Human Rights Journal, Modern Law Review, Ratio Juris, Legal Studies, Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, Michigan Journal of International Law, National Black Law Journal, Indiana International & Comparative Law Review, Journal of Social & Legal Studies, Law & Critique, Law & Literature, Michigan Journal of International Law, Modern Law Review, National Black Law Journal, Nordic Journal of International Law, Ratio Juris, and other scholarly journals. Awards and Fellowships have included a Nuffield Foundation Grant, French Government (Chateaubriand) Fellowship, Harvard University Fellowship (Sheldon), Fulbright Fellowship, Andres Public Interest grant, C. Clyde Ferguson Human Rights Fellowship, and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. | |
| Jonathan Herring | Jonathan Herring is a Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford University. He has written and edited over thirty books. These include best selling textbooks on criminal law, family law and medical law and ethics. He has also written monographs on law and older people and human rights and family law. His academic writings have covered a broad range of issues including sexual offences, crimes against corpses; children’s rights; the ownership of the body; the position of people with intersex conditions; and the legal status of the embryo. He has also written two books for the general reader, one looking at bizarre cases that have come before the family courts and the other on how to argue. He is currently working on a book looking at Caring and Law. | |
| Rachel Herron | Having obtained a first class degree in History from Durham University Rachel went on to study for the Graduate Diploma in Law and LPC (in which she obtained Distinction) at the College of Law in York. Rachel then completed her training contract at a leading North East firm of solicitors before moving in-house and working as a general commercial counsel for a global pharmaceutical and chemicals company. Whilst working in-house Rachel completed a Master of Jurisprudence at Durham University in which she undertook a comparative analysis of US and UK positive action. In January 2010 Rachel was awarded a PhD scholarship to study full-time at Durham University. Her research applies autopoietic systems theory to provide an explanation for the inevitable racial effect of the US and UK use of suspicionless counter-terrorism policing powers. Rachel is also a part-time teacher within the University’s Law School and is currently delivering seminars on the Equity and Trusts module. | |
| Claire Hill | Professor Claire Hill teaches at the University of Minnesota Law School and heads its Institute for Law and Rationality. She is the 2009-11 Solly Robins Distinguished Research Fellow; previously, she was the 2008-9 Vance K. Opperman Research Scholar and the 2007-8 Julius E. Davis Professor. She previously taught at Chicago-Kent College of Law, George Mason School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Sloan Visiting Professor. Professor Hill teaches corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, and seminars in law and economics. She has published numerous articles on capital structure, structured finance, rating agencies, secured debt, contract theory, law and language, and behavioral law and economics. Three of her articles were selected for inclusion in the Securities Law Review, an annual edited volume of noteworthy scholarship in the field. One of her articles won the David Watson Memorial award. She has been featured and quoted on televsion and radio on the subject of rating agencies. | |
| Rachel Hughes | ||
| Lorenz Kaehler | Lorenz Kaehler is Visiting Professor at the University of Bremen,Germany, where he teaches private law and legal philosophy. At the University of Goettingen he wrote a PhD about the 'Patterns and Methods of Overruling Decisions' (2nd edition, 2011, Nomos) and a postdoctoral thesis ('habilitation') about the "Concept and Justification of Default Rules' (forthcoming, Mohr & Siebeck, 2011). He also holds an MA in philosophy (thesis: 'Duties to oneself'). | |
| Pierre Legrand | A graduate of the Sorbonne and of the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, Professor Dr Dr Pierre Legrand teaches law at the Sorbonne where he is responsible for the postgraduate programme on globalization and legal pluralism. In his capacity as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, he also offers a course on comparative law every year at the University of San Diego Law School. In addition, he teaches regularly on the postgraduate programme at the University of Melbourne Law School. He has recently held visiting professorships at the University of Toronto, at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, at the University of Copenhagen, at the Centro Universitário Curitiba in Brazil, and at Georgetown Law School. Professor Legrand publishes in English and French with specific reference to salient theoretical issues arising from comparative interventions in a globalized world. His work has been translated in various other languages. Representative publications include "The Same and the Different", in Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions, ed. by Pierre Legrand and Roderick Munday (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003); "On the Singularity of Law", (2006) 47 Harvard International Law Journal 517; "Issues in the Translatability of Law", in Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation, ed. by Sandra Bermann and Michael Wood (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005); and Le Droit comparé, 3d ed. (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2009). | |
| Andrea Loux Jarman | Andrea Loux Jarman, JD is a graduate of Cornell Law School, where she was on the editorial board of the Cornell Law Review. She took up a permanent lectureship at Lancaster University immediately upon graduation. She has held a variety of positions in Britain, including Research Fellowships at the Socio-legal Studies Centre, Oxford and the School of Public Policy, UCL and academic posts in the law departments of the University of Westminster and the University of Edinburgh. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Law at Roehampton University, where she is the sole academic lawyer in an interdisciplinary human rights centre. She is an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
Andrea has research interests in both legal history and contemporary public law, which focus on the reception of community litigation, custom and praxis by the British common law courts (see, e.g., 'Customary Rights in Scots Law: Test Cases on Access to Land in the Nineteenth Century', 28 (2) Journal of Legal History (2007), 207-232 ; 'Hearing a "Different Voice": Third-party Intervention in Criminal Appeals', 53 Current Legal Problems 449-470 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000) ; and Custom, Community and Common Land: Rights of Access to Land in Scotland from the Union to Devolution (Dundee University Press, forthcoming). She is currently conducting a scoping study for the AHRC, entitled 'Speaking for Ourselves: Community Litigation in the English and European Courts' with the linguist, Dr. Annabelle Mooney. |
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| June Luchjenbroers | June Luchjenbroers is Senior Lecturer with the Dept of Linguistics and English Language at Bangor University, Wales. Her research deals with Forensic Linguistics / Language and the Law, and has used methodologies from two main fields of linguistic enquiry: cognitive semantics and discourse analysis. The data used includes the language used to and by children and victims of rape, and more recently, email communications between paedophiles. Her publications include Cognitive Linguistics Investigations, across languages, fields, and philosophical boundaries, a special edition of the Journal of English Linguistics (edited with Michelle Aldridge) dealing with vulnerable witnesses, and a special edition of the Journal of Politeness Research (edited with Dawn Archer) dealing with language in legal contexts. | |
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| Karen McAuliffe | ||
| Sebastian McEvoy | Sebastian McEvoy directs the common law section of the undergraduate and postgraduate programme for the bilingual study of European laws at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (formerly Paris 10), within which he teaches English contract law and criminal law. During his first professorship, he taught Elizabethan and Jacobean literature at the University of Lille 3 (Charles de Gaulle). As a lecturer, he taught English law at the University of Paris 2 (Panthéon-Assas). Setting aside articles, for the most part written in English, he is the author of L'invention défensive: poétique, linguistique, droit (Paris: Métailié, 1995), the result of his research on defensive utterances at l’EHESS (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales), and a novel, Le rêve du milieu (Paris: Le Seuil/Gallimard, 2000). | |
| Annabelle Mooney | Annabelle is a Reader in Sociolinguistics at Roehampton University London. While she took her BA in Literature, she then undertook graduate work in Linguistics and, subsequently, an LLB. She has published in the fields of gender, religion, globalization and health and works now on law and human rights in relation to linguistics and language broadly construed. She is particularly interested in the potential of legal concepts to be rethought and re-worked outside the law. Work relevant to this includes "Death Alive and Kicking: Dianne Pretty, legal violence and the sacred", Social Semiotics (2008) 18(1): 47-60; "Keeping on the windy side of the law: the law of the beach" Law Text Culture (2005) 9:189-214; "Fight The Good Fight With All Your Might: The US, us and them" Studies in Terrorism: Media Scholarship and the Enigma of Terror; "Maligned and misunderstood: Marginal movements and UK law" in Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, Omoniyi, Tope and Joshua A. Fishman (eds.), Amsterdam: John Benjamins (2005): 291–305; "Citizens, Immigrants, Anarchists and Other Animals", in Contemporary Issues in the Semiotics of Law, Wagner et al (eds) Onati International Series in Law and Society, Oxford: Hart (2005): 35-56. | |
| Mary Neal | Dr Mary Neal completed an LLB Hons and LLM by research at the University of Glasgow, before studying for her PhD in Medical Law and Ethics at Cardiff University (awarded in 2005). She is currently Lecturer and Undergraduate Programmes Leader at the School of Law, University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) where I have taught since 2006. She previously held lectureships at the Universities of Nottingham (2004-2006) and Dundee (2003-2004). Her main research interests are in Legal Theory, Bioethics and Socio-Legal Studies, focusing on beginning and end of life issues, theories of property, and meta-disciplinary concepts such as dignity, sanctity, and love. She is currently writing several articles on end-of life issues and working on a monograph under contract with Routledge, titled “The Jurisprudence of Pregnancy: Concepts of Conflict, Persons and Property”. | |
| Richard Nobles / David Schiff | Richard Nobles and David Schiff are professors in the department of law at Queen Mary University of London. They have written together extensively over the last twenty years, and are currently writing a book entitled ‘Observing Law Through Systems Theory’ which will be published by Hart Publications. This is a companion volume to their earlier book published by Hart called ‘A Sociology of Jurisprudence’. Both books apply Niklas Luhamnn’s systems theory to law, as developed in his book ‘Das Recht der Gesellschaft’ (1993). This major work was translated into English as ‘Law as a Social System’ in 2004, with Richard and David as joint editors and contributing an introduction. Their paper for this colloquium is part of the same project of disseminating Luhmann’s work, being entitled: ‘Legal Pluralism: A Systems Theory Approach to Language, Translation and Communication’. | |
| Penny Pether | Penelope Pether is Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law, where she teaches Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, and a seminar in Law and Literature. Educated in her native Australia, she earned an undergraduate degree, law degree, and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Sydney, where she later was a member of the faculty in the English Department and then the Law School, teaching Constitutional Law. Before joining the faculty at Villanova, she was Professor of Law and Director of Legal Rhetoric at American University Washington College of Law. She has also been a visiting faculty member at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University and in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California-Irvine.
Pether’s scholarship – on domestic and comparative constitutional law and constitutional theory, law and literature, legal discourse and subject formation, jurisprudence and criminal law - is widely published in journals including Stanford Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, and Cardozo Law Review. She is currently completing the fifth in a series of articles about adjudicatory practices in U.S. appellate courts. Her current jurisprudence scholarship, including the chapter on “Language” in Law and the Humanities: An Introduction (Austin Sarat, Matthew Anderson, and Cathrine Frank eds.) has recently been published in or is forthcoming in essay collections published by Cambridge University Press and Edinburgh University Press, and the second edition of her co-authored Criminal Law casebook was recently published by Lexis. Her work in progress includes a critical history of the distinctive U.S. doctrine of precedent, a comparative study of the law of indefinite detention, and A Seat at the National Table: The Culinary Jurisprudence of Edna Lewis. She is currently serving a three year term on the Organizing Committee of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. She serves as a General Editor of Law and Literature (University of California Press), and is Editor of the SSRN/LSN abstracting journal Law and Literature. A former president of the Law and Literature Association of Australia, she was a founding editor of Law/Text/Culture, and serves on the editorial advisory boards of Law and Critique (Kluwer/Springer) and Social Semiotics (Routledge). She is a board member of the University of Sydney-U.S.A. Foundation. |
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| Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco | Veronica is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, School of Law. She studied law and philosophy at Oxford and Cambridge and have published articles on legal objectivity, methodological issues in legal theory and legal normativity in prestigious journals such as Legal Theory, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Law and Philosophy, Philosophy Compass, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence and Ratio Juris. She is also the author of the monograph "Meta-ethics, Moral Objectivity and Law". She is currently finishing a manuscript on the normative and authoritative character of law. The investigation is located at the intersection of ancient and medieval philosophy of action (Aristotle and Aquinas), contemporary philosophy of action and legal philosophy. The provisional title of the monograph is "Law Under The Guise of the Good". | |
| Benedicte Sage-Fuller | Dr Bénédicte Sage-Fuller is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University College Cork, Director of the Law and French and Law and German degrees in UCC. She is a graduate from Université Robert Schuman (Strasbourg, Maîtrise en Droit, Certificat de Droit Européen, 1999), and University College, Cork (LL.M 2000 and Ph.D 2009). She was appointed in the Law Faculty in September 2007, and has since been involved in the training of students in Law and Languages. Before her appointment in UCC, she worked as Law of the Sea consultant and principal researcher in pan-European maritime research projects (DG TREN). Since 2009, Bénédicte has been working with UNCTAD and Dublin Port Company on “Modern Port Management”. This programme is aimed at providing development aid in the form of teaching to sea ports in developing countries. | |
| Jan-Melissa Schramm | Jan-Melissa Schramm is Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, where she teaches eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature. Her research focuses primarily on legal and theological thought in mid-Victorian fiction. She is the author of "Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature and Theology" (CUP, 2000), and "Vicarious Experience in Nineteenth-Century Narrative: Substitution, Imposture, Atonement" (forthcoming) and co-editor of "Fictions of Knowledge: Fact, Evidence, Doubt" (forthcoming). |
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| Benjamin Shaer | Benjamin Shaer is Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Law at Carleton University and a policy analyst in the Department of Health in Ottawa. He obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics from McGill University in 1997 and held teaching and research positions in Canada, France, and Germany before embarking on a legal career, earning his J.D. at the University of Toronto in 2008. Dr. Shaer’s research since then has focussed on the application of the tools of theoretical linguistics to the analysis of conceptual and linguistic puzzles in both public and private law. | |
| Gabrielle Slezak | ||
| Karlheinz Spitzl | Karlheinz Spitzl holds a BA in Translation Studies and an MA in African Studies (both University of Vienna); teaches at the University of Vienna’s Institute of African Studies; works as a researcher in the project 'When Plurilingual Speakers Encounter Unilingual Environments (PluS). Migrants from African countries in Vienna: Language Practices and Institutional Communication'; particularly interested in cybernetics, de/constructivism, functioning of texts & discourse – language awareness/power/ideology; currently writing PhD thesis on 'Transcultural Communication and the Recontextualization of Home Narratives'. | |
| Marco Wan | Dr Marco Wan is Assistant Professor of law and Honorary Assistant Professor of English. He has published articles on nineteenth-century literary trials in England and France, and on the representations of law in Hong Kong cinema. His areas of interest include law and literature; law and film; and legal/critical theory. He received his PhD and his law degree from the University of Cambridge, and his BA from Yale University. | |
| Gary Watt | Gary Watt is a Professor of Law at the University of Warwick. He is a founding co-editor of the journal Law and Humanities. His books include Equity Stirring The Story of Justice Beyond Law (Hart, 2009), Shakespeare and the Law (co-edited, Hart, 2008) and Trusts and Equity (OUP). He was named "Law Teacher of the Year" in 2009 and is a National Teaching Fellow. | |
| Steven L Winter | Steven L. Winter joined the Wayne State University Law School in 2002 as the Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law. Before coming to Wayne State, he was a member of the faculty at Brooklyn Law School (1997-2002) and the University of Miami School of Law (1986-1997). He has also taught at American University’s Washington College of Law and the Cardozo, Rutgers-Newark, and Yale Law Schools.
After law school, Professor Winter clerked for Judge Paul R. Hays of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 1978 to 1986, he served as an Assistant Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., where he litigated a wide range of civil rights cases concerning prisoners’ rights, employment discrimination, school desegregation, police violence, capital punishment, habeas corpus jurisdiction, discrimination in the military, and attorneys’ fees. While at LDF, he worked on more than a dozen Supreme Court cases including brief and argument in Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985), the landmark case holding the common law fleeing felon rule unconstitutional. Professor Winter has served as a consultant for the Helsinki Watch Committee and the Central Intelligence Agency. In 2001, he filed a brief in the Supreme Court on behalf of Intellectual Property Creators and the Society of Amateur Scientists as amici curiae in Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., Ltd., 532 U.S. 722 (2002), using developments in cognitive linguistics to argue successfully against reliance on the literal language in patent law. Professor Winter is the author of numerous articles on constitutional law and legal theory, including The Metaphor of Standing and the Problem of Self-Governance, Bull Durham and the Uses of Theory, An Upside/Down View of the Countermajoritarian Difficulty, The “Power” Thing, Melville, Slavery, and the Failure of the Judicial Process, What Makes Modernity Late? and, most recently, Reimagining Democracy for Social Individuals. His book, A Clearing in the Forest: Law, Life and Mind (Univ. Of Chicago Press 2001), is the first systematic attempt to assess cognitive science’s implications for law and legal theory. He teaches Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Civil Procedure, and a variety of seminars on topics in legal theory which have included: Ethics of the Lawyering Experience; Contemporary Problems in Legal Theory; Theory of Property; Legal Reasoning; Cognitive Science and Law; Law and Linguistics; and Racism, Cognitive Theory, and the Law. Professor Winter is currently working on a book about consumerism and democracy. |
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| Andrew Wistrich | Hon Andrew J Wistrich is a Magistrate Judge of the US District Court for the Central District of California. He received his Law Degree from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the Law Review. He received undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Following Law School, Justice Wistrich served as a law clerk to the Hon. Charles Clark of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Subsequently he was a Partner in the Palo Alto California office of Brain & Bain, where he specialised in Intellectual Property Litigation.
Judge Wistrich is the author or co-author of several articles and book chapters regarding judicial decision-making, federal practice and procedure, and statues of limitation. Judge Wistrich is a member of several professional associations, including the American Law Institute, The American Judges Association, The American Judicature Society, The American Psychology-law Society, and the International Society for the Study of Time. |
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| Bencie Woll | ||