EULETA CONFERENCE 2012: provisional programme

31 August – 2 September, University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrück, Germany

Friday 31 August 2012

17.00-19.00 Registration

19.00– 21.00

Welcome buffet

Saturday 1 September 2012

Lecture theatre 1 Lecture theatre 2

9.00-10.00 Jim Faulkner

President, Euleta

Welcome Address

10.15-11.00

A1

Geoff Tranter

Mondiale Testing, Dortmund, Germany

A Flexible Approach to ESP and Legal English

B1

Natalia Walter

Madison, USA

Legal English Programs in the US: A survey and some thoughts

11:00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-12.15 A2

Antoinette Dop

AD Lexis Translations by lawyers, The Hague, The Netherlands

What does ‘legal’ refer to when we say that we teach legal English?

B2

Lezel Crook

Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany

Mediation: Lessons from the ICC Mediation Competition 2012.

12.30-13.15 A3

Eva Jakupcevic and Agnieszka Kaldonek-Crnjakovic

Eureka Centar school of foreign languages, Zagreb, Croatia

Written skills based on discourse analysis of student texts for ILEC and TOLES

B3

Matt Firth

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

Designing case studies for International Legal English

(NB delegates are invited to bring or share their own laptop, iPad or tablet PC)

13.15-14.30 Lunch & Poster sessions (speakers available for discussion from 14.00)

14.30-15.30 A4/B4

Panel discussion and workshop

Internet in Legal English

15.30-16.15 EULETA AGM

16.15-16.45 Coffee Break

16.45-17.30 A5

Barbora Chovancova

Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Bihimini  Somananda  

University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Elena Vyushkina

Nadezhda Kalmazova

Saratov State Law Academy, Russia

Using video in Legal English teaching

NB This presentation ends at 17:45

B5

Elizabeth O’Leary

University of Augsburg, Germany

Use of metaplan cards in Legal English teaching

18.30-20.00 Guided tour of Osnabrück

20.00 Dinner

Sunday 2 September 2012

9.00-9:45

A6

Marina Bevilacqua de La Touloubre

TraduzDireito, São Paulo, Brazil

Company Law and International Commercial Relations: an international approach

B6

David Bowskill

Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

The reformed foreign language law (Fremdsprachiges Rechtsstudium) programme at the Humboldt University Berlin – still a good model for teaching English for Academic Legal Purposes?

10.00-10.45

A7

Štěpánka Bilová

Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Developing communication skills: dealing with clients

B7

Carol Scheunemann and Matt Firth Business Spotlight, Munich. Germany

Getting the balance right: developing Legal English materials for non-lawyers

10.45-11.15 Coffee Break

11.15-12.00

A8

Andrew Otto

University of Passau, Germany

Equity and trusts - features of the Common Law: trust instruments, trustees, beneficiaries and more explained

B8

Christopher Brooks

Bill Holland Legal & Business English Training, East Stroudsburg, USA

Changing Focus to the Practitioner: Teaching Foreign Legal Systems in English

12.15-13.15 A9/B9

Panel discussion: The differing needs of pre-service and in-service learners

13.15-14.15 Lunch

14.15-15.00

A10

John Haberstroh

Working with the Legal Academic Word list

B10

Barnaby Harward

CMS Cameron McKenna, Warsaw, Poland

A view from the other side – Legal proofreading

15.15-16.00 A 11

Patrick Mustu

Düsseldorf, Germany

Teaching Legal English locally

B 11

Carla Monteiro-Reuter, University of Augsburg, Germany

Teaching Legal English to bankers: lessons from the frontline

16.00 Closing address