The Presidents and Executive Commitee represent the International Language and Law Association both within the community and in public. Both have been elected for a period of two years at the latest ILLA conference held in Los Angeles, CA, USA in 2019; At ILLA, the two presidential posts are always held by one linguist and one lawyer.
 

Presidents of the ILLA (2019-2021)

Prof. Dr. Frances Olsen Professor of law at UCLA (US) and a noted member of the school of Feminist Legal Theory. She teaches Feminist Legal Theory, Dissidence & Law, Family Law, and Torts. Her areas of research interest include legal theory, social change and feminism. Academic Website
Prof. Dr. Victoria Guillén Nieto Tenured Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Department of English Studies (Faculty of Humanity and Arts) at the University of Alicante, Spain. Academic Website

Executive Committee (2019-2021)

Prof. Dr. Janet Giltrow Professor of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. Research Interests are Law and language, writing in the research genres and linguistic pragmatics of aesthetic genres. Academic Website
Prof. Dr. Anne Lise Kjær Associate Professor of Legal Linguistics at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, and initiator of RELINE. She mainly works with the role of language, translation and discourse in European legal integration and is especially concerned with the possibility of developing autonomous, transnational legal concepts. Academic Website
Prof. Dr. Ralf Poscher Director of the Institute for Staatswissenschaft and Philosophy of Law at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His research focuses on constitutional law, national security law and legal theory. Academic Website
Prof. em. Dr. Dieter Stein Professor Emeritus of English Language and Linguistics at Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, studies theory and practice open access publishing, pragmatics, language and commuication in law, language change, syntactic variation and meaning, language and law, the language of the internet, and the linguistics of hypertext. Dieter Stein was one of the founders of ILLA alongside Lawrence Solan and Peter Tiersma. Academic Website
Prof. Dr. Friedemann Vogel Professor of General and Socio-/Discourse Linguistics at University of Siegen, Germany. His research focuses on legal linguistics, language in computer mediated communication, paradigms of democratic speech and computer assisted methods in discourse analysis. Academic Website

Former Presidents

• Prof. Dr. Friedemann Vogel (2017-2019, Founding President)
  Professor of General and Socio-/Discourse Linguistics at University of Siegen, Germany. His research focuses on legal linguistics, language in computer mediated communication, paradigms of democratic speech and computer assisted methods in discourse analysis.
  Academic Website

Former Members of the Steering Committee

• Prof. Dr. Lawrence Solan (2017-2019)
  Professor of Law and Director of Graduate Education at Brooklyn Law School in New York (USA). Solan holds both a law degree and a Ph.D. in linguistics. His scholarly works are largely devoted to exploring interdisciplinary issues related to law, language and psychology, especially in the areas of statutory and contractual interpretation, the attribution of liability and blame, and linguistic evidence.
  Academic Website