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5th Euleta Legal English
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Friday 30 September – Sunday 2 October 2016
Aula, ZHAW School of Management and Law
Winterthur / Zurich
From Language to Law. Crossing Borders.
In cooperation with:
5th Euleta Legal English Conference
Programme
LEGAL ENGLISH CROSSING BORDERS – FOCUS ON COMPETITION LAW AND POLICY
Hot topics will include Paralegal Education and Legal English Challenges in Cross-
Border Business Litigation. The Conference will focus specifically on topical issues
of Competition Law and Policy, Compliance and Risk Management and Intellectual
Property and Procurement.
FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2016
16:00 – 19:00 Evening registration
Location: SW St. Georgen-Platz 2, 8401 Winterthur (map on the last page)
17:30 – 20:00 Light Networking Dinner
The sessions are moderated accordingly:
Learning Skills: ZHAW SML (Adam Thomas, Jason Parry)
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kills in Crossborder and Business Deals: AGON Partners (Patrick Krauskopf,
Felix Schraner, Fabio Babey)
Practice Skills: Euleta (Jim Faulkner, Dorthe Hartmann)
Communication Skills: Euleta (Mark Brophy)
SATURDAY 1 OCTOBER 2016
8:00 Registration
9:00 Welcome
Adam Thomas, Pauline Dodsworth
Plenary Keynote: “Without English one is only half a lawyer”
Prof. Dr. Patrick L. Krauskopf, ZHAW School of Management and Law,
AGON Partners
10:00 Coffee
Sponsored by: TransLegal World Law Dictionary
5th Euleta Legal English Conference
Programme
SATURDAY 1 OCTOBER 2016
10:30 SESSION 1
1 – Thomas: e-tools for legal English
2 – Kbilashvili: Legal Challenges of Teaching Intellectual Property
Language and the University Level
3 – Best: “Language parity” or “Direct applicability”? What
«Untranslatability» in EU law-making can teach us about legal terminology
4 – Stupnikova: Multimedia presentations in legal English classrooms
11:15
Plenary Keynote: ”The Gotthard Base Tunnel: Challenges in
realizing the world’s longest railway tunnel”
Renzo Simoni, CEO, AlpTransit Gotthard AG
12:15 Lunch
Sponsored by: Swiss Exams
14:00 SESSION 2
5 – Maher: The discourse functions of semi-technical vocabulary in
student academic legal writing
6 – Kocel: Commercial companies across the borders
7 – Riley: Tackling legal terminology: creating pathways to success
through personalised learning of the vocabulary of the law
8 – Chovancová: Intellectual challenge: teaching the language aspects
of intellectual property law to undergraduates
14:45 SESSION 3
9 – Kavanagh/Parry: Challenges and opportunities of VLE based
blended learning in a tertiary English for Special Purposes environment
10 – Bilová: Getting down to (international) business: practising
negotiation in the course of English for International Trade Law
11 – Hogg: Why learn Legal English in Belfast rather than Osnabrück?
12 – Tarasova: Teaching legal translation for academic purposes
The colors represent where sessions overlap with relevant topics: Learning Skills (Rm122)
Skills in Crossborder and Business Deals (Rm123) Practice Skills (Rm124) Communication Skills (Rm125)
5th Euleta Legal English Conference
Programme
SATURDAY 1 OCTOBER 2016
15:30 Coffee
16:00 SESSION 4
13 – Hartmann: From ten-sentence to one-minute statements. Teaching
structure and coherence in free oral discourse in law-specific language courses
14 – Mustu: Competition among jurisdictions: England vs Continental Europe
15 – Amochkina: Legal translation as part of comparative law
16 – Heidinger: “Law and Language – the Vienna Model – a teaching
method for the future”
16:45
Plenary Keynote: “English as a critical success factor for the
practicing attorney – the need for constant learning”
Prof. Dr. Urs Schenker, Walder Wyss AG
18:00 Tour of old town in small groups
19:00 Dinner
Sponsored by AGON Partners
Location: TB Technikumstrasse 9, 8401 Winterthur (map on the last page)
Plenary Keynote: “Brexit means Brexit”-deriving meaning from context
Richard Norman, LL.M, Solicitor, AGON Partners UK
Saturday Closing Address
SUNDAY 2 OCTOBER 2016
9:00 EULETA AGM
10:30 Coffee
The colors represent where sessions overlap with relevant topics: Learning Skills (Rm122)
Skills in Crossborder and Business Deals (Rm123) Practice Skills (Rm124) Communication Skills (Rm125)
5th Euleta Legal English Conference
Programme
SUNDAY 2 OCTOBER 2016
11:00 SESSION 5
17 – Petz: An e-learning platform for legal drafting
18 – Bassett: The cyberlaw language of digital property
19 – Kordić/Sierocka: Bridging the gap between education and practice:
What (if anything) do legal professionals need to learn?
20 – Kosonogova: Legal communication: verbal and non-verbal
communication in the practice of law
11:45
SESSION 6
21 – Macmillan: Helping legal English students learn vocabulary
22 – Jones: The dominance of English and common law culture in
international arbitration
23 – Barinova: English legal terminology in Russian Contract Law
24 – Hradilová: English for law via videoconferencing
12:30 Lunch
Sponsored by: Swiss Paralegal Association
14:00 Plenary Keynote: “Intellectual Property Rights in Europe and beyond”
Dr. Mark Spittle, EPA
Sunday Closing Address
15:00 Books and farewell
The colors represent where sessions overlap with relevant topics: Learning Skills (Rm122)
Skills in Crossborder and Business Deals (Rm123) Practice Skills (Rm124) Communication Skills (Rm125)
5th Euleta Legal English Conference
Sponsors
Zurich University
of Applied Sciences
School of
Management and Law
St.-Georgen-Platz 2
P.O. Box
8401 Winterthur
Switzerland
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