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CALL FOR PAPERS 21st International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law & 15th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics (Legal Linguistics) GENOCIDE AND LAW – COMMUNICATING THROUGH VISUAL ARTS AND LANGUAGE Conference venue:  26th to 28th June (Friday-Sunday) 2020 Poznan, Poland Conference website: www.lingualegis.amu.edu.pl Languages: Polish, English, French, Spanish, Russian and German Click here to download call for paper

Comparative Law and Legal Linguistics – An Example of True Interdisciplinarity? On first glance, one of the areas that comes to mind when looking at  interdisciplinarity in comparative law  is the intersection of comparative law and legal linguistics. Evidently, any comparative lawyer who is looking at legal texts from different countries has to deal with legal translation. And legal linguistics plays an eminent role within the multi-lingual environment of the European Union. On second glance, however, modern comparative law and linguistics may not be as compatible as one might think due to the differences in focus. Thus, ordinarily, legal linguistics is a very technical discipline that is primarily focused on semantics. Such a pragmatic view of legal translation might satisfy a strict functionalist. Modern comparative law, however, looks beyond legal texts and considers the cultural background of laws as well. So a technically correct translation of a legal term might not pro...