The Cologne Summer School for European Legal Linguistics (CSS-ERL) will give you an opportunity to acquire an understanding of legal and linguistic aspects of the EU’s legislative process. To that end, you will examine a topical proposal for a legislative act of the European Parliament and the Council, using a transdisciplinary approach. In a supervised preparatory phase, you will familiarise yourself with the source material provided and, in small working groups, develop your own analyses, before attending the part of the course taught in person. Experienced practitioners from the EU institutions will provide you with specific background information about the legislative proposal and about their multilingual tasks. During the part of the course taught in person, you will draft (compromise) proposals in your small working groups, and present them to the plenary for discussion. The working language is English. After participating in the Summer School and submitting an essay, you will receive a certificate.
APPLICATION PROFILE
- Study Courses:
-Law, from the 3rd semester on, especially binational degrees focus on International and European Law-European Legal Linguistics-General Linguistics-Translation Studies, - Language Skills:
– At least English (B2) and another EU officiallanguage,
– German language skillsadvantageous for international students - Intrest in:
– the European Union, in particular EUlegislation,
– International politics,
– Comparative law and multilingual work, - Application Documents:
– letter of motivation,
– CV with supporting documents,
– language certificates (in one pdf-document).
Application deadline: April 30, 2024, email: css-erl@uni-koeln.de
The costs related to the CSS-ERL will be covered, except for the travel expenses.
A detailed schedule can be found at the following link: Cologne_Summer_School_for_European_Legal_Linguistic