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Anne Lise Kjær

MA (translation studies, legal language), PhD.

  • Karen Blixens Plads 16, 2300 København S, 6B Bygning 6B (Afsnit 3), 6B-4-37

  • Karen Blixens Plads 16

    2300 København S

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1986 …2024

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Personal profile

Teaching

Law and Language (legal linguistics). Legal communication and rhetoric. Rhetorical argumentation. Legal philosophy and sociology of law. Human Rights law. Language rights. Criminal law. Comparative law, legal translation and multilingual interpretation.

CV

2009: Associate Professor, The Faculty of Law , University of Copenhagen

 

2008 - 2010: Carlsberg Research Fellow

 

2007: Senior Research Fellow, The Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2001-2005: Senior Research Fellow, The Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

1998-2000: Post-doctoral researcher, The Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

1990-1997: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Legal Translation, Copenhagen Business School, Faculty of Modern Languages and Translation

1986-1989: Ph.D Student, Copenhagen Business School, Faculty of Modern Languages and Translation

Primary fields of research

  • Law and Language
  • Corpus linguistics and discourse analysis
  • Empirical studies of the case law of international courts
  • Populist rhetoric in law
  • Legal translation, comparative law, and multilingual interpretation
  • Interdisciplinary studies of European legal integration
  • Multilingualism, language policy and language rights

Current research

My current research aims at uncovering the linguistic mechanism of populism in legal discourse across European languages and text genres.

My general research aims at developing cross-disciplinary approaches to the empirical study of international law and courts, combining theories of language, discourse, and law.

Keywords

  • Faculty of Law
  • Language and Law
  • Legal translation
  • Comparative Law
  • Legal cultures
  • Philosophy of Law
  • European integration
  • Linguistic Human Rights