CONFERENCES

  • “Legal language: Transparency and Inclusion”
    Co-hosted by Clarity and the Underministry of Public Administration
    Mexico City (Mexico), November 20-23, 2008

  • “Who really writes the law?”
    Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice
    Ottawa (Ontario) Canada, September 11-12, 2008

  • “PLAIN's sixth international conference”
    Bureau Taal
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 11-14, 2007

  • “Plain Language: Adding Up the Benefits” PLAIN
    Plain Language Association International Conference
    Washington, D.C., USA, November 3-6, 2005


  • “What is the New Rhetoric?”
    Conference organized by the Plain English Foundation and the
    University of Sydney, Australia, September 2-3, 2005

  • “Clarity and Obscurity in Legal Language”
    International Conference
    Université du Littoral, Boulogne- sur- Mer, France, July 5-9, 2005

  • "Translating and Interpreting as a Social Practice"
    International Conference
    Department of Translation Studies, University of Graz, Austria, May 5-7, 2005

  • “LANGUAGE AND LAW: LEGAL COMMUNICATION IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE”
    International Conference
    Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland, 2-4 December 2004


  • "Drafting in Perspective"
    • National Conference of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice
    Ottawa, Canada, Parliament Buildings (West Block), September 9-10, 2004

  • “Clarity and Obscurity in Legal Language”
    International Conference
    Université du Littoral, Boulogne- sur- Mer, France, July 5-9, 2005

  • “Stratégie et pratique de l’écrit judiciaire”
    (Strategy and Practice in Judicial Writing)
    A seminar co-organised by the Conseil supérieur de la justice (Brussels) and
    the École nationale de la magistrature (Paris)
    Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France, May 10-12, 2004

  • “At The Heart of Communication”
    International Conference
    Toronto, Ontario, September 2002

  • “Plain Language in Progress”
    International Conference
    Houston, Texas, February 2000

  • “Language that works!”
    International Conference
    Calgary, Alberta, September 1997


  • “More than Just Language”
    International Conference
    Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1995