Journals and Series of Language and Law

Comparative Law and Language

Comparative Law and Language (CLL) is an academic journal which aims to provide a platform for scholars to enhance interest and scientific debate on the relationship between law and language, in and within different national and supranational legal systems from a comparative perspective. Because of the journal’s interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature, contributions of jurists, linguists and scholars of any other relevant field of social sciences are welcome.

In a wider perspective, the object of analysis is also the legal phenomenon as such, when preceptive “linguistic” formulations imply legal translation, inter-linguistic circulation of models and government of multilingual legal systems. We invite contributions applying micro and macro comparison analyses, filtered through the specific perspective of language and reflecting on the linguistic nature of legal phenomena and on how language influences and determines the societal legal framework.

The journal covers a broad and stimulating field, observing how the different aspects of the legal phenomenon are denominated in various languages and uncovering the reasons and consequences of linguistic diversity. Thus, it offers an original and novel contribution to contacts between the field of law and that of linguistics.

The journal is edited by Trento University and publishes two Issues per year

Comparative Legilinguistics

Comparative Legilinguistics (International Journal for Legal Communication) is published four times a year by the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. We are pathfinders in mapping the contours of legal linguistics and legal translation especially in its comparative aspects. Comparative Legilinguistics is equally devoted to forensic linguistics, theory of the law and the intersection of legal language and legal translation. In addition, the journal welcomes submissions on political discourse, with a focus on persuasive strategies, linguistic markers of deception and truth-telling, the legal and political aspects of policy-making, and the intersections of political rhetoric with legal frameworks. We encourage submissions in English, French and German. Guest edited volumes at the request of the guest editor may be published in Italian, Polish, Russian and Chinese. The reviews are stored in the journal’s editorial office. The articles are peer-reviewed by two reviewers (double-blind review) via our online submission platform www.pressto.amu.edu.pl with well-established expert reviewers from all over the world. The editors reserve the right to appoint a third reviewer in case of doubts. The editorial board reserves the right to publish selected articles without two reviews. We reserve a right to have one review in cases where the topic of the paper is very niche and it is not possible to find two competent reviewers.

FACHSPRACHE – Journal of Professional and Scientific Communication

FACHSPRACHE – Journal of Professional and Scientific Communication is a refereed international journal that publishes original articles on all aspects of specialized communication and provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and teachers interested in this field. FACHSPRACHE is committed to promoting high-quality research and to improving professional and scientific communication and knowledge transfer including the qualifications required for this. The journal places equal emphasis on rigor and comprehensibility in an attempt to bridge the gap between researchers who may come from different disciplines but who share a common interest in professional and scientific communication. These disciplines may range from linguistics, psychology, lexicography, terminology, and translation studies to the neurosciences as well as domains such as business administration, economics, law, medicine, science and engineering. Special issues focusing on particular individual areas are published regularly. Since volume XXXIII FACHSPRACHE is published by Facultas.

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique

The International Journal for the Semiotics of Law is the leading international journal in Legal Semiotics worldwide. […] We publish original and high quality papers that should ideally critique, apply or otherwise engage with semiotics or related theory and models of analyses, or with rhetoric, history of political and legal discourses, philosophy of language, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, deconstruction and all types of semiotics analyses including visual semiotics. We also welcome submissions, which reflect on legal philosophy or legal theory, hermeneutics, the relation between psychoanalysis and language, the intersection between law and literature, as well as the relation between law and aesthetics.

International Journal of Language and Law (JLL)

Language & Law is a platinum open access scholarly e-journal which offers a forum for research on the interdependence of language and law in all of its facets, from theoretical approaches to practical problems.

International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse (IJLLD)

The International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse (IJLLD) is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural peer-reviewed scholarly journal, integrating academic areas of law, linguistics, discourse analysis, psychology and sociology, presenting articles related to legal issues, review of cases, comments and opinions on legal cases and serving as a practical resource for lawyers, judges, legislators, applied linguists, discourse analysts and those academics who teach the future legal generations.

International Journal of Legal Discourse (IJLD)

The International Journal of Legal Discourse (IJLD) is associated with Multicultural Association of Law and Language and International Academy of Linguistic Law. This journal covers both verbal and non-verbal aspects of legal discourse. This journal aims to provide a world-class platform for academic exchanges in legal discourse as well as its neighboring areas, tapping into research on law, discourse analysis, linguistics, politics, semiotics, sociology and psychology. This journal invites contributions examining the interface of law and other disciplines, and exploring the interaction among law professionals, administrators, policy makers and other social actors.

International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law (IJSLL)

The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles on any aspect of forensic language, speech and audio analysis. Founded in 1994 as Forensic Linguistics, the journal changed to its present title in 2003 to reflect a broadening of academic coverage and readership. Subscription to the journal is included in membership of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics and the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics.

Legal Linguistics / Юрислингвистика

The journal is a unique scientific project. Its aim is to promote the development of legal linguistics, a new branch of social research. The journal makes a special effort to overcome disciplinary boundaries and provides a forum for researchers who deal with the various contentious issues that arise at the border of language, law and conflict management. In their publications, scholars are looking for new methods, tools and techniques to study legal communication, legal writing, linguistic expertise, language policy and legal education.

LeGes – Gesetzgebung & Evaluation

LeGes is a scientific journal aimed at individuals who strive for good, understandable and effective legislation and good evaluation of governmental trade in science and practice. Contributions from law and political science, linguistics, sociology and evaluation research are included as well as reports on current or completed legislative projects. LeGes is the bulletin of the SGG (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Gesetzgebung) and the SEVAL (Schweizerische Evaluationsgesellschaft). The journal appears three times a year. It was published in print as well as online from 1990 to 2017. Since 2018 the journal is only available online.

Linguagem e Direito / Language and Law (LLLD)

Language and Law / Linguagem e Direito, is a international bilingual bi-annual journal is also is completely electronic and freely available for everyone to download. […] We chose the title Language and Law – Linguagem e Direito to indicate that we welcome articles across the whole spectrum of the discipline and from both practitioners and academic researchers. Thus, for example, this Vrst issue includes contributions from a chief of police, a public prosecutor, a professional translator, a professional interpreter and two expert witnesses, as well as from academic lawyers and linguists.

Lingua Legis (LL)

Lingua Legis is a scholarly open access peer-reviewed journal devoted to legal and specialised translation as well as law and language issues, published yearly (online and in print) by the Institute of Applied Linguistics of the University of Warsaw since 2015. […] Lingua Legis aims at integrating theory and practice by publishing high quality research papers devoted to practical aspects of specialised translation such as terminology, translation problems, linguistic accuracy, translator’s practice, etc.

Revista de Llengua i Dret – Journal of Language and Law

Revista de Llengua i Dret – Journal of Language and Law is a free online scientific magazine with a biannual period of over 35 years. It was founded in 1983 by the School of Public Administration of Catalonia and promotes research in the fields of: administrative an legal language, linguistic right, linguistic and sociolinguistic policy. The Magazine is positioned in the second quartile of the linguistic category of the Scopus database of Elsevier, it has the FECYT quality label, and has the highest rating of the Carhus + of the AGAUR.

The Journal of Specialised Translation (JoSTrans)

JoSTrans aims to create a forum for translators and researchers in specialised translation, to disseminate information, exchange ideas and to provide a dedicated publication outlet for research in specialised, non-literary translation. […] The journal offers a mixture of thematic and open issues, covering the following areas:

• Features of specialised language
• General and practical issues in translation and interpreting
• Subject field translation issues, i.e. medical, legal, financial, multi-media, localisation, etc
• Theoretical issues in specialised translation
• Aspects of training and teaching specialised translation
• Revision and post-editing

TRANS Revista de Traductología

TRANS. Revista de Traductología is an organ of the Translation and Interpretation Department of the University of Malaga. Its function is to disseminate scientific works of diverse origin that touch on historical, theoretical, methodological, didactic, descriptive and practical aspects of all manifestations of interpretation, language translation and intersemiotic translation. Works on the contact of cultures and comparative rhetoric will also be admitted, provided they are approached from a translational perspective. TRANS is primarily aimed at translation specialists, whether in the field of research, teaching or professional practice. The periodicity of the magazine is annual, and its languages of publication, except in exceptional cases, Spanish, French and English.

Zeitschrift für Europäische Rechtslinguistik (ZERL)

ZERL is the eJournal of the ERL (Europäische Rechtslinguistik) of the University of Cologne, Germany. Being a young discipline in the conflictual field of European policy, law and multilingualism, the ERL aims at enabling and accessing the expertise of everyone involved in this challenging field. Using a transdisciplinary, multilingual, comparative and application-oriented approach, ZERL attempts to enable a fruitful exchange between linguistics and legal studies as well as to provide a platform through close integration of research, teaching and professional practice for an effective and current dialogue between all involved and interested parties.

Die Sprache des Rechts

This series of documents is a compendium of the current status of knowledge about the language of law. The most important approaches of well-known protagonists in the field of forensic linguistics are compiled, surveyed and discussed in detail.

Legal Discourse and Communication

Legal Discourse and Communication is a refereed international series initiated by the Centre for Research in Language and Law (CRILL) of the English Language Chair, Law Department of the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. It is the successor to the former Explorations in Language and Law international series. Legal Discourse and Communication is a research tool series that explores theoretical, descriptive and applied issues of legal discourse and communication manifest in different languages, cultures, systems and societies. Given the central role played by language in the creation of socio-legal reality, studies in this series will focus on synchronic and diachronic forms and structures of written and spoken discourse as a system of communication and action within and across the academic, professional and institutional boundaries of law. […]

Foundations in Language and Law (FLL)

Edited by Dieter Stein and Janet Giltrow, the Foundations in Law and Language series aims beyond the traditional surveys of scholarship in law and language. Monographs in the series will provide foundational materials – theoretical, methodological, critical, practical – to advance study of important topics in the field. And even as each volume engages conceptually with current scholarship in the area, it presents original research which breaks new ground and indicates future directions for scholarship in law and language.

Law, Language and Communication

This series encourages innovative and integrated perspectives within and across the boundaries of law, language and communication, with particular emphasis on issues of communication in specialized socio-legal and professional contexts. It seeks to bring together a range of diverse yet cumulative research traditions related to these fields in order to identify and encourage interdisciplinary research. The series welcomes proposals – both edited collections as well as single authored monographs – emphasizing critical approaches to law, language and communication, identifying and discussing issues, proposing solutions to problems, offering analyses in areas such as legal construction, interpretation, translation and de-codification.

Le lingue del diritto (The languages of law)

This book series is specialised in legal research publication and includes topics like Europe and legal languages and categories and terminologies of law from the perspective of comparison. Its latest publication is “A norma di (chi) legge” (According to (who) reads).

Oxford Studies of Language and Law (OXSLL)

The Oxford Studies of Language and Law include 19 publications by various authors on topics like legal challenges in digital time, the influence of language in capital cases or legal integration and language diversity.

Rechtslinguistik

The new interest in the authenticity of everyday life has produced a broad documentation (sound recordings, transcriptions, text corpora) and led to reflective analyses of various fields of action. The results point beyond the mere alienation of the Always-Conscious and reveal the communicative foundations of legal practice. They open up illuminating perspectives on other areas: medical questions, psychoanalytical interpretation, scientific argumentation.
The progress of the discussion is inconceivable without interdisciplinary cooperation. This series aims to provide a forum for the dialogue between the scientific disciplines and research directions that deal with language and law, oral and written action in legal institutions, and forensic statements such as legal argumentation, laws, decrees, forms, files as text forms.

Sprache und Medialität des Rechts / Language and Mediality of Law (SMR)

The subject of the series „Language and Mediality of Law“ (SMR) is the linguistic and medial constitution of law. The focus is on multimodal patterns, procedures and routines of action that constitute, reproduce or change law and lawlessness in different cultures, epochs and technical media settings. Particular attention is paid to the institutionalised forms of linguistic interaction and legal text work in legislation, jurisdiction and the executive (administration, police, etc.); cross-border cooperation (inter- and transnational law) and multilingualism; legalisation of the digital and digitalisation of the legal.