European Legal English Teachers' Association

EVENTS

Upcoming events

    • 28 Nov 2024
    • 9:00 AM
    • 1 Mar 2025
    • 12:00 AM
    • Université Catholique de Lille - CLARIFE

     

            


    EULETA Legal English CONFERENCE 2025

    In-person conference | Université Catholique de Lille - France
    Friday 19 September 2025 – Saturday 20 September 2025

    Co-organised by Université Catholique de Lille - CLARIFE and EULETA


    About

    EULETA’s membership is made up of many people working in different capacities in legal English, for example: lawyers, linguists, translators, legal English trainers for professionals, and legal English university professors. This conference, co-organised by Université Catholique de Lille - CLARIFE and EULETA, aims to bring our diverse members together to share and find new practical ways of combining our expertise to improve our legal English teaching.

    Presentations may be on any topic related to the teaching of legal English which may be pertinent to in-house, language school, university-level, one-to-one, online, or any other platform for legal English teaching, coaching, or testing.

    Topics may also include legal linguistics, legal drafting, translation and interpretation, or ESP/EAP and different areas of specialised language teaching, as long as there is a clear and practical connection with the legal English teaching field.

    Conference presentations will be 30 minutes long: 20 minutes for presentations + 10 minutes for Q and A.

    Submit your abstract
    Please fill in this Google Form to submit your abstract: https://forms.gle/k13CK3hW1MBCiztr6

    Key dates
    The abstract deadline is midnight CET 1st March 2025. The EULETA Board will review abstracts and notify presenters by mid- April 2025. You may be required to answer some questions from the Board regarding your presentation during the reviewing stage.

    Note
    Further conference details will be published at a later date. Presenters are not exempt from the conference fee. This is an in-person conference and not online. Please direct any questions to secretary@euleta.org (Jennifer Hill).

    Download call: EULETA conference 2025 call for papers.pdf

    • 16 Dec 2024
    • 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Zoom
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    EULETA Seasonal Teacher Network Meeting

    Please join us for an informal seasonal get-together on Zoom. This event is open to EULETA members and non-members. Come and find out more about EULETA and make new connections with legal English teachers from across Europe and beyond.

    Date and time: Monday 16th December 2024 8-9pm CET.

    Registration is free and closes on Sunday 15th December.

    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, please direct them to Natasha Costello: internal@euleta.org


    • 15 Jan 2025
    • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Zoom
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    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.

Past events

25 Nov 2024 30th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
28 Oct 2024 29th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
8 Oct 2024 External Speaker: Lisa Lipsky on "Plain language and the legal profession’s struggle with simplicity".
30 Sep 2024 28th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
20 Sep 2024 The EULETA Legal English Workshop 2024
24 Jun 2024 27th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
27 May 2024 26th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
7 May 2024 External Speaker: Rachael Roberts on "How to optimize your profile and maximize your impact on LinkedIn".
29 Apr 2024 25th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
25 Mar 2024 24th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
14 Mar 2024 External-Speaker Training Series: Christopher Williams on 'Recent trends in plain legal English'
26 Feb 2024 23rd EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
29 Jan 2024 22nd EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
19 Dec 2023 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: EULETA Workshop 2024
18 Dec 2023 EULETA Christmas drinks
27 Nov 2023 20th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
15 Nov 2023 External-Speaker Training Series: Robert Gibson on 'Communication and beyond - trends in intercultural competence development'
30 Oct 2023 19th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
25 Sep 2023 18th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
21 Sep 2023 The EULETA Legal English Conference 2023
26 Jun 2023 17th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
24 Apr 2023 15th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
27 Mar 2023 14th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
21 Mar 2023 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: EULETA Conference 2023
27 Feb 2023 13th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
30 Jan 2023 12th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
19 Dec 2022 EULETA Christmas Drinks
28 Nov 2022 11th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
31 Oct 2022 10th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
26 Sep 2022 9th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
23 Sep 2022 The EULETA Legal English Workshop 2022
23 Sep 2022 Hiddensee Island Day Trip Workshop Add-on
27 Jun 2022 8th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
14 Jun 2022 EULETA Call for Hosting 2023 Conference
30 May 2022 7th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
25 Apr 2022 6th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
28 Mar 2022 5th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
7 Mar 2022 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: EULETA Workshop 2022
28 Feb 2022 4th EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
31 Jan 2022 3rd EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
20 Dec 2021 EULETA Christmas Drinks 2021
29 Nov 2021 2nd EULETA Teacher Network meeting
25 Oct 2021 1st EULETA Teacher Network Meeting
16 Sep 2021 The EULETA Legal English Hybrid Conference 2021
24 Jun 2020 EULETA WORLD CAFÉ 2020: An Online Meeting to Share Teaching Experiences during Lock-down
29 Feb 2020 EULETA Board meeting 2020, Paris
29 Nov 2019 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: EULETA Conference 2020
21 Sep 2019 EULETA Annual General Meeting 2019
21 Sep 2019 REGISTRATION: EULETA Workshop 'Collaboration in the Teaching and Learning of Legal English', Kraków, Poland
17 May 2019 EULETA Call for Hosting 2020 Conference
18 Mar 2019 CALL FOR PROPOSALS: EULETA Workshop 'Collaboration in the Teaching and Learning of Legal English'
16 Feb 2019 EULETA Board Meeting 2019, Bergamo, Italy
29 Sep 2018 EULETA AGM 2018, Split, Croatia
27 Sep 2018 EULETA 6th Legal English Conference 2018 'Language and Law', Split, Croatia
23 Sep 2017 EULETA Workshop 'Enhancement of Writing Skills in Legal Contexts', Brno, Czech Republic
30 Sep 2016 EULETA 5th Legal English Conference 2016 'From Language to Law. Crossing Borders', Zurich, Switzerland
26 Sep 2015 EULETA Workshop 2015 Passau, Germany
7 Nov 2014 EULETA 4th Legal English Conference 2014 'Law-Language-Practice, the future of cross-border legal teaching', Warwick, UK

European Legal English Teachers’ Association e.V. (EULETA e.V.)

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