IALS Legislative Drafting and Language Workshop: Legislative drafting and the contextual word meaning

Time (BST)

Topic

Speaker(s)

9.00

Welcome and opening of the workshop

SESSION 1

Constantin Stefanou, Director, Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Drafting, IALS

Giulia Adriana Pennisi,  Professor, English Language and Translation, University of Palermo; Associate Research Fellow, IALS

9:15

“Contextual developments in legislative drafting as reflected in dictionaries”

Daniel Greenberg  CB, former Parliamentary Counsel, UK; former Counsel for Domestic Legislation, House of Commons; Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS

9:45

“Tool for offering context in legislation”

Helen Xanthaki, Professor of Law, University College London; Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS

10:15

“Legislative communication beyond language”

Maria Mousmouti Lecturer, IALS; Executive Director, Centre for European Constitutional Law (Greece).

10:45

“EU legislation: the text and the context”

William Robinson Associate Research Fellow, IALS

11.15     -

11:30               Coffee break

SESSION 2

11:30

“In and out of context”

Thomas Glyn Watkin Honorary Professor, Bangor University and Cardiff University, Former First Welsh Legislative Counsel

12:00

“‘True and fair’ in context(s):

a truly fair hendiadys or a fairly true tautology?”

Annalisa Zanola Professor, English Language and Linguistics, University of Brescia

12:30

“Context and the ‘resemiotisation process’”

Giulia Adriana Pennisi Professor, English Language and Translation, University of Palermo; Associate Research Fellow, IALS

13:00

Concluding Remarks

Constantin Stefanou and Giulia Adriana Pennisi