Call for Papers: 9th International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS26) will be held in Dijon, France from June 18 to 19, 2026
The 9th International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS26) will be held in Dijon, France from June 18 to 19, 2026 and co-hosted by the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL) and the Laboratoire Texte, Image, Langage (TIL) at the Université Bourgogne Europe.
The workshop will focus around the theme “Emancipating Legal Linguistics: Hopes and Challenges for the Independence of an Interdiscipline.”
Submissions may seek to provide answers including but not limited to the following questions:
1. How can Legal Linguistics be conceptualised as an emancipating discipline within the broader field of language and law?
2. Which models, perspectives, or methodological orientations are needed to address legal language as a research object in its own right, rather than as a subsidiary of neighbouring disciplines?
3. How do different legal-linguistic traditions (e.g., jurilinguistique, Rechtslinguistik, Anglophone and other regional approaches) inform, challenge, or complement one another?
4. In which ways can research on legal discourse, legal texts, and legal communication contribute to democratic societies and the needs of human beings?
5. How can theoretical and applied approaches to legal language be meaningfully and productively connected across contexts such as legislation, interpretation and translation?
6. Which future directions, synergies, and challenges may emerge as Legal Linguistics, theoretical and applied, continues to expand across languages, legal cultures, and institutional settings?
ILLWS26 will be held in English, French, and German.
Submission Guidelines
Applicants are invited to submit an abstract of 250 words, including the title, theoretical background, research question(s), and methodology. The use of artificial intelligence tools in preparing submissions must comply with good academic practice. Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere.
Deadline for abstract submission: 1 March 2026
Decision regarding acceptance or rejection by 31 March 2026
Conference fees EUR 50 per contributing scholar, to be transferred in full to the association bank account upon acceptance.
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