Confs: Forensic Linguistics/Lyon, France

International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law

Meeting Description:

The theme of the international conference is Signs of the World: Interculturality and Globalization, and while papers directed toward that very broad topic are welcome, in the spirit of Bobbie Kevelson we are of course open to all varieties of legal semiotics.

CHAIR PERSON

Anne WAGNER, Maître de Conf¨¦rences, sp¨¦cialit¨¦ : Langues et Droit.
- CERCLE, ¨¦quipe VolTer (Vocabulaire, Lexique et Terminologie) - Universit¨¦ du Littoral - Côte d'Opale (France).
- LARJ (Laboratoire de Recherches Juridiques) - Universit¨¦ du Littoral - Côte d'Opale (France).
- Editorial Board Member and French Book Review Editor for : International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0952-8059/current)
- 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)

Our association - The International Round Tables for the Semiotics of Law : The International Round Table for the Semiotics of Law is concerned with the application of different forms of textual analysis to the discourses of the law.

This includes:
- the semiotics of Greimas, Peirce and Lacan,
- rhetoric,
- philosophy of language,
- pragmatics,
- sociolinguistics,
- deconstructionism, as well as
- more traditional legal philosophical approaches to the language of the law.

The organization also sponsors the quarterly journal, the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0952-8059/current)

Our organization has been recently formed (2001) by the merging of the International Association for the Semiotics of Law and the Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law.

Hosted by the

Les signes du monde : interculturalit¨¦ et globalisation
Signs of the world : Interculturality and globalisation

Website: http://sites.univ-lyon2.fr/semio2004/

CONFERENCE PROGRAM:

10 JULY 2004
BUSINESS MEETING with our sponsor KLUWER : 15-17h
OFFICIAL RECEPTION sponsored by KLUWER : 17h

11 JULY 2004:

10-10h30: Charls Pearson, American Semiotics Research institute, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
          A Community of Justice: The Role of Community in the Semiotics of Law

10h30-11h: Celina Frade, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
          Semiotic Aspects of Legal Conditionals

11h-11h30: Deborah Cao, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
          'Keywords'' in Chinese Law: A Semiotic Interpretation

11h30-12h: Mattie Scott - USA
          Peirce's Esthetics and the 2003 Discrimination Decisions

12h-12h30: Dragan Milovanovic, Professor, Justice Studies, Northeastern Illinois University
          Globalization and Juridic Capture: A Semiotics of Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights

12h30-13h: Pekka Virtanen, Department of Political Science and International Relations, FIN-33014 University of Tampere, Finland
          From national laws to global rules: Semiotics of forest certification in Brazil

BREAK

14H-14H30: Maarten Henket, Utrecht University, Institute of Public International Law, The Netherlands
          Adjudication: between science and art

14h30-15h: Ross Charnock , Ciclas / Universit¨¦ Paris 9 - Dauphine, Paris, France.
          Lexicological Judgments: dictionary citations in common law adjudication

15h-15h30: Anita Soboleva, Ph. D. (linguistics), LL.M. Jurists for Constitutional Rights and Freedoms (JURIX), Executive Director, Moscow, Russia
          Topical Jurisprudence: Reconciliation of Law and Rhetoric

15h30-16h: Agnes T.M. Schreiner, Law Faculty/Jurisprudence, University of Amsterdam
          The Common Core of Trento

BREAK

16h30-17h: Tracey Summerfield, Murdoch University, Australia 
          A Rhetoric of Substance: Indigenous Rights Discourse in Australia 

17H-17h30: Jack Rooney, Cooley Law School, Lansing, Michigan, USA 
          The Misuse of Language in the Pursuit of Justice 

17h30-18h: Clive BALDWIN, UK 
          Persuasive narratives in the absence of fact: The construction of the dangerous mother 

18h-18h30: Wouter G. Werner, Utrecht University, Institute of Public International Law, The Netherlands 
          Towards a Discriminatory Concept of International Law? 

18h30-19h: Professor Moshe Azar, Department of Hebrew Language, The University of Haifa, Israel 
          Transforming Ambiguity into Vagueness in legal Interpretation 

19H-19H30: Joanna Jemielniak, Assistant Professor Department of Administrative and Legal Sciences, Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management, Warsaw, Poland 
          Rational and Objective: Self-legitimizing in the Legal Interpretation 

12 JULY 2004: 

10h-10h30: Lester J. Mazor, Prof. of Law School of Social Science, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002 USA 
          Law under Pressure of Globalizing Time 

10h30-11h: Dubrulle Jean Baptiste, Doctorant - allocataire moniteur, Universit¨¦ du littoral Côte d'Opale - France 
          Boundary and Identities: Distinctive or Similar? 

11h-11h30: Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy, University of Galway, Ireland 
          Images of the ''Patriarchal'' Family: A Slightly Constitutional Familial Arrangement 

11h30-12h Ronnie Lippens, Keele University, Department of Criminology, ST5 5BG Staffs, UK 
          Surgical Strikes and Viral Contagion : An Emerging Imaginary of Global Empire 

12h-12h30: Phillip C. H. Shon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809 
          The Fraternal Order of Warnings and Threats in Police-Citizen Encounters 

12h30-13h Aleksandar Jokic, Assistant Professor, Portland State University, Department of Philosophy, USA 
          Globalizing World and Genocidalism 

BREAK 

14H-14H30: Jos¨¦ de Sousa e Brito 
          How much do human rights depend on civilization? - The question of human rights in Islam 

14h30-15h: Paul Robertshaw 
          Convicting Margherita: American Juries Deliberate: Mule or Moll or just a Doll? 

15h-15h30: Carl S. Bjerre, Associate Professor of Law, University of Oregon, School of Law 
          Mind and Metaphor in Judicial Opinions 

15h30-16h: Annabelle Mooney, Cardiff University, Wales, UK 
          The Drama of the Courtroom 

16h-16h30: Philip Gaines, University of Montana, USA 
          Ideal and Actual Evidence in the Courtroom: Jurors' and Attorneys' Sense of Facts and Evidence 

16h30-17h: Hanneke van Schooten, Tilburg University, The Netherlands 
          Communicating Law 

17h-17h30: Shaeda ISANI, D¨¦partement d'Anglais Appliqu¨¦, UFR de Langues, Universit¨¦ Stendhal, Grenoble 3 
          The non-verbal as a semiotic vector of professional cultural identity -- the example of Anglo-Saxon legal           professions 

17h30-18h: Anne Wagner, Maître de Conf¨¦rences, Laboratoires de Recherche : Universit¨¦ du Littoral - Côte d'Opale, Boulogne, France 
          Visual Signs in France 

18h-18h30 Richard Sherwin, New York, USA 
          The Law/Media/Culture Project and Its Implications for Legal Theory 
- Part I 

18H30-19H Neal Feigenson, Quinnipiac University, USA 
          The Law/Media/Culture Project and Its Implications for Legal Theory 
- PartII 

19H-19H30: Christina Spiesel, Yale University, USA 
          The Law/Media/Culture Project and Its Implications for Legal Theory 
- Part III 

END OF OUR INTERNATIONAL ROUND TABLES 

12 JULY 2004: 20H30 - OUR OFFICIAL DINNER¡¡

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