LLIRN members Dr Alexandra Grey, Dr Adrian Hemler and PhD Candidate Emma Genovese at UTS for Adrian’s seminar (Image credit: Alexandra Grey)
This April we celebrated the 6th birthday of the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers’ Network (LLIRN) with a fascinating research seminar about the potential for corpus linguistics in legal research.
Six years ago, LLIRN was born out of a new event, the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers’ Symposium, which Laura Smith-Khan and I hosted in Sydney. With researchers from multiple universities in Australia – including a number of people from the Language on the Move community – as well as visiting scholars from Asia and Europe, we workshopped the shared themes underpinning our varied case studies and how to collaborate across disciplines. We swiftly then set up the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers’ Network to continue the momentum.
We could only dream (and did dream) of this network becoming as active, friendly and international as it now is. We have over 260 members based in/from at least 40 countries. We’ve cast a spotlight on many of them recently in our LLIRN About US blog series, which we started to mark the 5th LLIRN anniversary.
It felt great to mark our anniversary this April with a visiting scholar, Dr Adrian Hemler from the University of Konstanz in Germany, presenting his innovative research to an interested audience online and in-person at the UTS Faculty of Law. Adrian’s topic was ‘Law and Corpus Linguistics – Current Trends and Future Applications’. He made corpus linguistic methods of analysis seem easily accessible even for those without a background in the field, and he shared a real passion for his research.
Enjoy this video recording of Adrian’s seminar to learn about the basics of Corpus Linguistics, the resources available online, and the potential he sees for corpus linguistic analysis in comparative legal research. You can also read Laura’s live posting about the seminar @lauraskh.bsky.social.
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