Conference Schedule

• Necessary Violence? Inscribing the Subject of Law
  Professor Penny Pether, Villanova University School of Law, USA
• Claims of Legal Authorities and 'Expressions of Intentions:' The Limits of the Philosophy of Language
  Dr Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, University of Birmingham, UK
• Legal Texts and Cannons of Construction: A View from Current Pragmatic Theory
  Professor Robyn Carston, UCL Department of Linguistics, UK
• Semantics and Legal Interpretation: Convergences and Divergences
  Dr Ross Charnock, MCF, Universite Paris Dauphine, France

• Truth in Law
  Professor Andrei Marmor, University of Southern California School of Philosophy, USA
• Linguistic Meaning and Legal Truth
  Professor Brian Bix, University of Minnesota School of Law, USA
• Language, Truth and Law
  Professor Andrew Halpin, Swansea University School of Law, UK

SESSION IIIa: Translation

• Foreign Law in Translation: If Truth Be Told
  Dr Simone Glanert, University of Kent School of Law, UK, and Professor Pierre Legrand, Ecole de droit de la Sorbonne, France
• Law, Language(s) and Justice at the Heart of the European Project - training different kinds of lawyers to meet the challenges of successful integration
  Dr Benedicte Sage-Fuller, University College Cork Faculty of Law, Ireland, and Ferdinand Prinz zur Lippe, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• (Law + Language) x (Law + Language) = ?
  Dr Catrin Fflur Huws, Aberystwyth University Centre for Welsh Legal Affairs, UK

SESSION IIIB: Language and Civil Law

• All Persons are Equal Before the Law; But What About Their Language? Plurilingual Speakers Within a Unilingual Judiciary - Perspectives from an Austrian Courtroom
  Karlheinz Spitzl, Gabriele Slezak & Martina Rienzner, University of Vienna African Studies, Sociolinguistics and Translation Studies, Austria
• First-Person Perspectives and First-Person Narratives in Legal Decisions
  Professor Lorenz Kaehler, University of Bremen, Germany
• Precedent at the ECJ: The Linguistics Aspect
  Dr Karen McAuliffe, University of Exeter School of Law, UK

• On Goodness and Genre: Talking About Virtue in Law and Literature
  Dr Jan-Melissa Schramm, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, UK
• Fiction: Law, Literature and the Grin's Cat
  Professor Sebastian McEvoy, University of Paris Ouest (Nanterre la Defense), France
• Where be his quiddets now?: Law and Language in Hamlet
  Professor Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London Faculty of Laws, UK

• The gravity of steering and the grace of gliding: always-already-not-yet-on-the-way-to-language as the uncanny origin of rhetoric, practical reasoning, action and law
  Dr Oren Ben-Dor, University of Southampton, UK
• Law and Language-Games
  Dr Mary Neal, University of Strathclyde, UK
• Vagueness and power-delegation in law: A reply to Sorensen
  Hrafn Asgeirsson, University of Southern California PhD Candidate, USA
• Towards a Cognitive Science of Legal Interpretation
  Dr Benjamin Shaer, Carleton University Department of Law, Canada

• Silence, Speech and the Paradox of the Right to Remain Silent in American Law
  Professor Janet Ainsworth, Seattle University, USA
• The Role of Language in Legal Contexts: A Forensic Cross-Linguistic Viewpoint
  Dr Luna Filipovic, University of Cambridge Linguistics Department, UK
• Law and linguistics: two disciplines divided by a common interest in language
  Professor Alan Durant, Middlesex University Business School, UK

Silent Speech
Professor Peter Goodrich, Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, USA

• Macaulay and the Construction of the East India Act of 1813
  Professor Michael Hancher, University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts, USA
• The Pragmatics of Legislative Language Use
  Dr Richard Ekins, University of Auckland Faculty of Law, New Zealand
• The Role of Legislative Rhetoric in Instituting the Racial Effect of the Section 44 Terrorism Act 2000 Stop and Seach Powers
  Rachel Herron, University of Durham PhD Candidate, Solicitor, UK

• Stories in Law: Providing Space for 'Oppositionists'?
  Dr Steven Cammiss, University of Leicester School of Law, UK
• Literal Interpretation and Legal Precedent in Joe Ma's Lawyer, Lawyer
  Dr Marco Wan, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
• Testimonial Injustice: A Fundamental Vice of Legal Institutions
  Professor Claire Grant, University of Leicester School of Law, UK

• Context Effects in Judicial Decision-Making
  Hon Andrew J Wistrich, United States District Court, Los Angeles, USA
• Construing Commercial Contracts: No need of violence
  Paul S Davies, University of Cambridge, UK
• The role of language in the law ius commune contract theory
  Dr Adolfo Giuliani, Univerita di Perugia Facolta di Giurisprudenza, Italy
• Culture and (complex business) contracting
  Professor Claire Hill, University of Minnesota Law School, USA

SESSION Xa: Law and Children

• The Power of Naming
  Dr Jonathan Herring, Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK
• Do you Kick a Dog When it is Down?: Considering the Use of Children's Video-taped Testimonies in Court
  Dr June Luchjenbroers, Bangor University School of Linguistics and English Language, and Dr Michelle Aldridge-Waddon, Cardiff University School of English Communication and Philosophy, UK
• The Rhetoric of the 'real' in Law: An analysis of the language of status in parenthood disputes
  Dr David Gurnham, University of Manchester School of Law, UK

SESSION Xb: Law, Language and Space

• MMOPGing, Law and Lingo
  Kim Barker, Aberystwyth University Department of Law and Criminology PhD Candidate, UK
• The Consumption of Legal Language: Consuming 'the law'
  Dr Anthony Amatrudo, University of Sunderland, UK
• Ordinary Theatre and extraordinary law: The Khmer Rouge Tribunal
  Dr Rachel Hughes, University of Melbourne Geography Department, Australia

• Community Litigation and the 'Big Society'
  Andrea Loux Jarman, JD, Roehampton University
• Rule of the Root: Proto-Indo-European Domination of Legal Language
  Professor Gary Watt, University of Warwick School of Law, UK
• Effects of ideological motivations on generic structures of the same message texts: A comparative genre analysis of a legal judgment and a newspaper report
  Professor Naveed Ahmad, Bahauddin Zakaria University Department of English, Pakistan
• Dumb by God in Old Bailey Records
  Professor Bencie Woll, Chair in Sign Language and Deaf Studies, UCL, UK

• Our Word is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts
  Marianne Constable. Professor, Department of Rhetoric, Zaffaroni Family Chair in Undergraduate Education, UC Berkeley, USA.
• Legal Pluralism: A Systems Theory Approach to Language, Translation and Communication
  Professor Richard Nobles and Professor David Schiff, Department of Law, Queen Mary, University of London  
• Frame Semantics and the "Internal Point of View"
  Professor Steven Winter, Wayne State University Law School