The Pioneering Work of David Mellinkoff
Professor Michael Asimow: David Mellinkoff, scholar and friend
Professor Dieter Stein: A discipline evolving: Mellinkoff and beyond
Professor Meizhen Liao and Dean Qing Zhang: The international impact of Mellinkoff, translating The Language of the Law into Chinese
Chair: Frances Olsen

Panels

P1 - Legal Theory: Meaning and Effects of Law
Chair: Dieter Stein

• Izabela Skoczen, The meaning of law
• Ralf Poscher, Meaning, Legal Meaning and Legal Effect: Assigning Intentionalism Its Place in Law

P2 - The Language of Harassment, Discrimination and Violence
Chair: Victoria Guillén Nieto

• Janet Ainsworth, "He Said, She Heard": A Social Interactional Account of Verbal Sexual Harassment
• Victoria Guillen Nieto, Genre-hybridisation forms in the language of harassment
• Nadir Chagas, Construing the experience of Domestic violence through language: An analysis of the iconic Maria de Penha’s narrative
• Beatrice Fracchiolla, To tell oneself, to be told, and to become: The linguistic question of address to women at the crossroads of the law

P3 - Linguistic Corpora in the Law
Organizer and Chair: Steven Mouritsen

• Clark Cunningham, Scientific Methods for Analyzing Original Meaning: Corpus Linguistics and the Emoluments Clauses
• Brian Slocum & Stefan Gries, Corpus Evidence of the Meaning of "Sex" in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(1)
• Noor Abbady, Corpus Analysis of Article III's Cases and Controversies Requirement
• Jeanne Fromer, Are We Running Out of Trademarks?

Lunch Break

Panels

P4 - Legal Theory in Politicized Contexts
Chair: Ralf Poscher

• James Vanden Bosch, Heller (2008) and the Language of the Second Amendment: Syntax, Semantics, Canonical Conventions, and Originalism
• Sofia Zuluaga Vivas, Understanding the Right to Peace in the Colombian Constitution
  Lawrence Solan, The Moral Equivalent of X: Linguistic Indications of Morality in Legal Judgments
  

P5 - Research on Law, Language and Discourse in the French-speaking world: Discursive approaches
Chair: Martina Nicklaus

• Olga Galatanu, The contribution of semantico-discursive analysis of the argumentative potential of lexical entities to the resolution of interpretation conflicts of legal discourse in judicial practices.
• Mary Catherine Lavissière, Iconicity and Text Coherence in Legal Spanish: the case of Gustave Guillaume's -R- and prospective shifts in law articles
• Arthur Joyeux, Pour comprendre le "principe de subsidiarité" en droit de l'union européenne: les apports d'une sémantique discursive comparée"
• Béatrice Fracchiolla, Ce que la loi instituant le «mariage pour tous» a changé: une approche sociolingusitique du droit en France

P6 - Translation and Problems with Interpretation
Chair: Anne Lise Kjær

• Anna Kizińska & Katarzyna Cybulska-Gómez de Celis, Translation Methods Used in Translation of Incongruent Criminal Law Terms Under Polish and British Legal Systems
• Stanley Madonsela, Riddles, Meanings and cognitive development: Conflicts emanating from the translation and interpretation of the term domicile for consumers in the South African context

Panels

P7 - Research on Law, Language and Discourse in the French-speaking world: Comparative and translatory approaches
Chair: Martina Nicklaus

• Simon Roy, When a code is not a "code": the different languages of codification in Québec
• Margarete Durr, La relation entre droit et langue dans un contexte biculturel et bijuridique dans la perspective traductologique
• Paulina Nowak-Korcz, Évolution et l’influence de l’héritage historique sur les spécificités discursives et les fonctions de la motivation de décisions de justice polonaise et française

P8 - Linguistics and Spoken Language in criminal prosecution of youth and Evaluation of Emotions

• Tara Suri, "Do You Understand These Charges?": How Procedural Communication in Youth Criminal Justice Court Violates the Rights of Young Offenders in Canada
• Annina Heini, The role of the Appropriate Adults in police interviews with juvenile suspects in England and Wales
• Linshuang Yao, Premeditation or Heat of Passion: Goal-oriented conceptual blending in the categorization of the criminals’ emotion to kill

Hors d'oeuvress

Panels

P9 - Legal Interpretation I
Chair: Friedemann Vogel

• Laura Hartwell, I would think: Marks of positioning in Supreme Court oral arguments
• Brian Slocum, "Avoiding" Judicial Activism: The Supreme Court’s Unconvincing Efforts to Restrict the Scope of the Avoidance Canon
• Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski, Freedom of Religion or Discrimination? A comparative look at value-based argumentation before the US Supreme Court and Poland’s Constitutional Court
• Manuel Triano-Lopez, Claiming breached promises in U.S. higher education under consumer-fraud statutes

P10 - Translation, Cross-culture and Legal Change
Chair: Peter Reich

• Joanna Osiejewicz, Legal Communication of the European Court of Human Rights: a mechanism for the contemporization of social and legal concepts
• Leticia Martelli, Legal Education Reform in Brazil: going beyond Legal English terminology
• Agnieszka Doczekalska, Cross-cultural translation of Japanese system-bound terms - lost or gained in translation

Talks
Chair and Introducer: Dieter Stein

• 11h-11h35
  Janet Giltrow, Pragmatic Approaches to Judicial Opinion
• 11h40-12h15
  John Baugh, Linguistics, Life, and Death

Lunch Break

Panels

P11 - Legal Interpretation II
Chair: Hanjo Hamann

• Jacob Livingston Slosser, Notes from the Legal Laboratory: An Experimental Approach to the Effect of Framing on Judgment and Precedent Choice
• Andrea Preziosi, Defining concepts in law: The limits of definitions and the persuasive power to define
• Jennifer Smolka & Benedikt Pirker, Pragmatics and Argumentation and the Interpretation of International Law – A Relevance Theory-Based Approach

P12 - Multilingualism and Problems of Equality for Minority Languages
Chair: Janet Giltrow

• Janny Leung, Legal Multilingualism: Causes and Consequences
• Sylvia Reznikova, Equality for minority languages in Scots law

P13 - Courtroom Discourse Analysis: Linguistics of Spoken Legal Discourse
Chair: Luping Zhang

• Magdalena Szczyrbak, Claims of Knowledge and No-knowledge in the Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing: Focus on Know, Recall and Remember
• Luping Zhang, A Study on the Construction of Case facts in Courtroom Interaction
• Gatitu Kiguru, Witness Resistance versus Acquiescence in Cross-Examination Discourse: Insights from Kenyan Courts
• Zhang Qing, Introduction to Current Situation and Prospect of Forensic Linguistics Study in China

Coffee Break

Panels

P14 - Legal Theory: Personhood, Privacy and Cybercrime
Chair: Anne Lise Kjær

• Jose-Maria Guerra, An onticist approach to legal theory: making a case for electronic personhood
• Daniel Leisser, Strategic indeterminacy and online privacy policies: (un)informed consent and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Patrizia Anesa, Lovextortion: Persuasion Strategies in Romance Cybercrime

P15 - Courtroom Discourse Analysis: China, U.S. and Taiwan
Chair: Luping Zhang

• Eva Ng, English trials heard by Chinese jurors: An experimental study on jury comprehension in Hong Kong
• Cheima Bouchrara, Persuasion in Courtroom Discourse: Uncovering Discursive and Linguistic Patterns in Closing Arguments in the US Criminal Trials
• Jingqiu He, Covert Resistance to Power: Mitigation Strategies in Defendants’ Discourse in Chinese Criminal Trials
• Ting-Wei Zhang, The Power and Discourse in Courtrooms: A Linguistic Study of Taiwan's Supreme Court oral argument on same-sex Marriage

Closing and General Meeting

• Friedemann Vogel, Legal Linguistics Around the World: Challenges and New Perspectives for the International Language and Law Association. Towards an PhD Training Network about "The Genesis of Legal Norms in the European Union"
• General Meeting of ILLA