The EULETA External Speaker Training Series features speakers who are experts in their fields and external to EULETA. The talks are on topics which are connected to our work as legal English teachers and which help our continued professional development.
Our next external speaker training event will be on Wednesday 15th January 2025 from 6 pm to 7.30 pm CET.
Stephen Horowitz will be speaking about Legal English in US Law Schools: meeting the needs of international LLM students.
About Stephen Horowitz's talk:
With the dramatic growth of LLM programs at US law schools over the past 30 years, the field of Legal English in the US has also grown. Stephen will talk about this growth along with the challenges of helping LLM students from a wide range of countries and language backgrounds succeed in US law school. He will also share his own experience teaching at Georgetown Law, which at 400+ international LLM students is the largest such program of any law school in the US. And he will share perspectives on other US law schools and their approaches to Legal English. The discussion will also include advice for future applicants to US law schools and will additionally touch on some of the distinctions between Plain English and Legal English.
About Stephen:
Stephen Horowitz is a Lecturer of Legal English at Georgetown Law in Washington, DC where he has taught Legal English to foreign-trained LLM students since 2020. Prior to that he served as the Director of Legal English Programs at St. John's Law School in New York City. He is also the creator and editor of the Georgetown Legal English Blog and runs the ETLEP Google Group, a listserv for the Legal English community in the US and beyond. He has a law degree from Duke Law School and a Masters in TESOL from City University of New York-Hunter College. In the mid-1990s, Stephen taught English in Japan on the Japan Exchange Teaching (JET) Program, and he has also interned for two Japanese lawyers and studied law for a semester at Waseda University. Together with Daniel Edelson, Stephen has created a number of online Legal English courses, including one specifically for helping LLM students improve their legal writing for the bar exam. And together they co-host the USLawEssentials Law & Language Podcast. For the past two years, Stephen has also become heavily involved in organizing and providing Legal English support for Ukrainian law schools, their law and Legal English faculty, and their students. He has also served as a Legal English consultant for several universities in Sri Lanka through a USAID-funded Rule-of-Law project. When not teaching, Stephen enjoys traveling, playing ultimate frisbee, and traveling to play ultimate frisbee.
This event is for EULETA members only. If you are not a EULETA member, you are welcome to join or renew your membership to attend this event.
Registration is free and closes on 14th January.
Please register here. After you register you will receive a confirmation email (check your spam). If you do not receive this, it means you are not registered correctly and you should contact us.
We will send out a Zoom link on the day of the event.
If you have any questions about this event or any suggestions for potential speakers, who are not EULETA members, please let us know at: internal@euleta.org.
