The project „Vigilante justice in society and popular culture: a global perspective” seeks to explore how vigilante justice denied but obtained through extra-legal means comes across through the popular media. Film and TV are the principal areas of investigation. The investigators look at what has been produced in their country in the context of how the […]
„Interest in comparative law often begins with special interest in a particular country, in its culture and language”. U. Kischel, „Comparative Law”, Oxford University Press 2019, 1. Legal translation is not only the transfer of words; it is an act of legal communication. The specific difficulties arising from legal translation are strictly related to the […]
In July 2019, Prof. Joanna Osiejewicz conducted a 32 h course on „Legal Communication for Translators and Interpreters” at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing. The course was a part of the International Courses Summer Semester 2019 and it combined legal and linguistic expertise. The participating students represented law, language […]
On May 15, 2019, the first public colloquium of the International Legal Communication Research Center took place. The lecture entitled „Communication of Law and Communication by Law by the International Court of Justice” was delivered by dr Izabela Gawłowicz, assistant professor at the Department of International and European Law at the University of Zielona Góra, a […]
The ILCRC is pleased to invite you for the colloquium lecture „Communication of law and communication by law by the International Court of Justice”, June 15, 2019, 15:30, room 8. The lecture will be led by Dr Izabela Gawłowicz, assistant professor at the Department of International and European Law, Faculty of Law and Administration of the […]
The ILCRC is the coorganizer of the „Medea 2019 Broken Symmetry. The Seventh International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Art, Science and Technology”, which will be held August 31 – September 2019 in Ateny / Agioi Theodoroi. Medea Symposium is an interdisciplinary meeting on the borderline of science, art and technology, where representatives of various academic disciplines meet, […]
On 5-6 April 2019, the 28. conference of the Polish Society of Applied Linguistics took place at the Institute of Foreign Languages at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. Almost 70 speakers representing Polish research centers attended the conference. They presented papers on glottodidactics, translation, general communicology, specialist communication, cognitive linguistics and lexicography. The conference […]
The conference on Interculturality and Integration of Minorities in the European Union took place at the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, March 26-27, 2019. The congress was a part of the academic project „The Prohibition of Racial Discrimination in the European Union”, that is funded by […]
International Workshop „Legal communication in a multilingual and multicultural context” took place at theUniversity of Wuppertal (Germany). During this workshop, Prof. Joanna Osiejewicz held her speech „Towards the Clear and Plain Language in the EU Legal Communication„. This event was great opportunity to present an international audience the opportunities of eye tracking in legal-linguistic research. https://www.sprachforschung.uni-wuppertal.de/de/workshop/program.html