The EJTN Linguistics Programme is designed for the training of the EU judiciary in various legal languages across different fields of law.
The EJTN Linguistics Programme is designed for the training of the EU judiciary in legal English, French, German and in Spanish, across different fields of law, and thus creating the conditions for direct contacts among legal practitioners of the different Member States in order to promote a common European legal culture.
Many legal language seminars are organised each year as part of this programme, which began in 2011 in various EU countries.
The Linguistics Programme’s seminars aim at developing both the linguistics and legal skills of EU judges and prosecutors.
The courses are intended to familiarise participants with the various legal instruments in the different fields addressed and provide them with specific terminology. The trainings adopt an interactive, small-group methodology and feature the participation of tutors, a linguistic expert and a legal expert, working in a tandem.
The legal language trainings focus on developing the linguistics skills of the participants in the following topics:
In 2021, 290 European legal practitioners from 18 EU Member States received training under the auspices of EJTN’s Linguistics Programme. In 2021, participants could choose from a wide range of linguistics seminars, some online and some it was possible to organise again in face-to-face format. The EJTN’s Linguistics Programme offered 11 seminars for judges and prosecutors and 4 Summer School seminars for trainee judges and trainee prosecutors as well as series of weekly online conversational classes in various languages.
| Reference | Topic | Dates | Venue |
| LI/2023/01 | Legal language training in cooperation in civil matters | 6-10 March | Barcelona, Spain |
| LI/2023/02 | Legal language training in cooperation in cybercrime | 29-31 March | Vilnius, Lithuania |
| LI/2023/03 | Legal language training in cooperation in family law | 19-21 April | Budapest, Hungary |
| LI/2023/04 | Legal language training in cooperation in criminal matters | 22-26 May | Bordeaux, France |
| LI/2023/05 | Legal language training in cooperation in human rights’ EU law | 5-9 June | Kroměříž, Czech Republic |
| LI/2023/06 | Legal language training in cooperation in civil matters | 3-7 July | Lublin, Poland |
| LI/2023/07 | Legal language training in cooperation in environmental law | 11-13 September | Bucharest, Romania |
| LI/2023/08 | Legal language training in cooperation in criminal matters | 2-6 October | Madrid, Spain |
| LI/2023/09 | Legal language training in cooperation in asylum & refugees | 25-27 October | Zagreb, Croatia |
| LI/2023/10 | Legal language training in cooperation in human rights’ EU law | 6-10 November | Naples, Italy |
| LI/2023/11 | Legal language training in cooperation in cross-border organised crime | 29 November – 1 December | Thessaloniki, Greece |
| SLI/2023/01 | Summer School: Legal language training in cooperation in civil matters | 8-12 May | Lublin, Poland |
| SLI/2023/02 | Summer School: Legal language training in cooperation in criminal matters | 19-23 June | Naples, Italy |
| SLI/2023/03 | Summer School: Legal language training in cooperation in human rights | 24-28 July | Naples, Italy |
| SLI/2023/04 | Summer School in linguistics: ethics and judgecraft | 28 August – 1 September | Trier, Germany |
For any queries concerning the Linguistics programme, please contact Mr Ondrej Strnad at the EJTN Secretariat: ondrej.strnad@ejtn.eu.
For any queries concerning the Summer Schools, please contact Ms Brandi Brown-Moreau at the EJTN Secretariat: brandi.brown-moreau@ejtn.eu