10:00

Welcome

10:30

I. Patterns in Language and Law
 
Lawrence M. Solan (New York, USA)

Patterns in the Fabric of Law and Language

Stephen C. Mouritsen (New York, USA)

Patterns in Law – Applying Corpus Linguistics in Practice

12:30

Lunch (on site)

14:00

II. Patterns in Discourses and Translations
 
Lucja Biel (Warsaw, Poland)

Fitting Textual Patterns: Using Corpora to Analyse Multilingual Law in Translation
 
Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski (Lódz, Poland)

Discovering patterns of evaluative language in judicial argumentation

16:00

Coffee Break

16:30

III. Computational Assistance and Corpora
 
Stefan Höfler (Zurich, Switzerland)

Corpus-Based Assessment of Legislative Drafting Style
 
Ruth Breeze (Navarra, Spain)

Corpora and Computation in Teaching Law and Language

18:30

Free Time

19:30

Conference Dinner

09:00

IV. Corpus Projects 1
 
María José Marín Pérez (Murcia, Spain)

The British Law Corpus (BLaR) and Specific Applications of Vocabulary Analysis
 
Giulia Venturi (Pisa, Italy)

Italian legal corpora seen through the 'lenses' of linguists and jurists

11:00

Coffee Break

11:30

V. Corpus Projects 2

Rema Rossini Favretti (Bologna, Italy)

The Bononia Legal Corpus (BoLC) and its Potential as a General Reference for Legal Language
 
Hanjo Hamann & Friedemann Vogel (Bonn/Freiburg, Germany)

The German Reference Corpus (JuReko) – Towards an International Research Network

13:30

Snack Break

14:00

VI. Panel Discussion: Making law more explicit – Conclusions

Lawrence M. Solan (New York, USA), Lucja Biel (Warsaw, Poland) and Andreas Abegg (Winterthur, Switzerland); Chair: Dieter Stein (Düsseldorf, Germany)

15:00

Farewell