The Future of Teaching Law and Language - Call for submissions

 Call for Submissions

The Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL) is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its forthcoming interdisciplinary volume titled

The Future of Teaching Law and Language

published by

Frank & Timme.

The volume seeks to showcase original high-quality papers that explore innovative approaches, methodologies, and both theoretical and practical perspectives on legal language teaching.

We encourage submissions that address but are not limited to any of the following themes:

1. Artificial intelligence and legal language instruction

2. Corpus linguistics and legal education

3. Current or future trends in legal language teaching and learning

4. Development of legal curricula

5. Disability, inclusion and legal education

6. Ethics in legal language teaching

7. Hyperonymy and power relations in legal language use

8. Information literacy in legal education

9. Legal aptitude testing

10. Legal language teaching and moot courts

11. Legal language teaching around the globe

12. Legal literacy in professional fields such as the hospitality industry

13. Metaphors in legal language teaching

14. Multilingualism in legal practice and education

15. Semioticising legal language education

16. Teaching law in the multilingual classroom

17. Teaching legal language to judges, prosecutors, lawyers and other legal professionals

18. Law and literature in legal education

19. Translanguaging in legal education

To express your interest in contributing to this volume, please submit an abstract by 25 July 2024.

Applications should be in English.

Applicants are invited to submit an abstract of between 200 and 250 words, including the title, theoretical background, research question(s) and methodology of their proposal.

Applicants should include 4-5 keywords and a short list of key references.

The abstract, along with full name and affiliation of the applicant(s), should be sent by email to legallinguistics2024@gmail.com and daniel.green@wu.ac.at by 25 July 2024.

Applicants will receive a decision on acceptance or rejection of their submission by 30 July 2024.

Registered contributors will receive further information regarding the peer review process and specific publishing requirements.

Manuscripts are expected to be submitted by 30 November 2024 and must not exceed 38,000 characters, including spaces.

Please note that all manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.

Submissions that do not conform to the style guide or lack adherence to good scientific practice will not be considered.

For any queries regarding this project, please feel free to contact

• Januš C. Varburgh (legallinguistics2024@gmail.com) or

• Daniel Green (daniel.green@wu.ac.at)

We look forward to your contributions.

Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL)

Vienna, Austria

Central Register of Associations number: 1050981907