Law and Society Conference

Meeting Description:

Law, Language and Interpretation: the Semiotics of Law and Justice 

The Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith University, Australia, is organising the Law and Society Conference from Monday 13th December to Wednesday 15th December, 2004. The theme of the conference is Re-Collections: Official Knowledge and the Memory of Unofficial Practices to address issues surrounding the constitution of law, legal knowledge and the subordination of other/alternative conceptualizations of ordering, law and justice and their articulation in specific legal discourses. 

Deborah Cao and Anne Wagner will be co-chairing a panel on Law, Language and Interpretation. Papers associated with the broad topics of law and language are welcome. Suggested areas include, but not limited to, official and unofficial linguistic practices associated with law, semiotic and other communicative and cultural analysis of law, courtroom discourse and Legislative language, legal translation and court interpreting, forensic language analysis, judicial and legislative interpretation, and other language and interpretive perspectives to law and justice. 

Please send your _expression of interest, and a title and short description of your paper by the end of August 2004 to Deborah Cao: d.cao@griffith.edu.au 

For further information of the Conference, registration, accommodation, please visit: 
http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/slrc/lawandsocietyconf/home.html 

Thanks. 

Dr Deborah Cao Socio-Legal Research Centre
Griffith University
Brisbane,
Australia 

Dr Anne Wagner
Editorial Board Member and French Book Review Editor for : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW (http://www.wkap.nl) -- Advisory/coordinating Committee Member of the International Round Tables for the Semiotics of Law CLARITY REPRESENTATIVE : A movement to simplify legal language ( http://www.clarity-international.net)

http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-1770.html#1 

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