Publications
2018
- Hafner, C. A. (2018). Spoken interaction in an academic legal context: The discourse of the arbitration moot. In G. Tessuto, V. K. Bhatia, & J. Engberg (Eds.), Frameworks for discursive contexts and practices of the law (pp. 175–194). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars.
- Hafner, C. A., & Wang, S. H. (2018). Hong Kong Learner Corpus of Legal Academic Writing in English: A Study of Boosters as a Marked Language Form in an English-Medium Instruction Context. TESOL Quarterly, 52(3), 680–691. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.451
- Hafner, C. A., Lynch, K., Scully-Hill, A., Burke, J., & Sharma, R. (2018). Designing and Evaluating Digital Multimedia Resources for Legal English: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Innovation. International Journal of Language & Law, 7. https://doi.org/10.14762/jll.2018.142
2017
2015
Mr Ian Mann (3): Advice on client correspondence
March 20, 2019/by adminMr Ian Mann (2): Advice on client Emails and text messages
March 13, 2019/by adminMr Ian Mann (1): What makes good client correspondence?
March 6, 2019/by adminProfessor Janet Ainsworth: How does the discourse of police interrogation create risks for false confession?
August 10, 2017/by adminThe Honourable Mrs Justice Audrey Campbell-Moffat: Language and communication – Does one size fit all?
August 8, 2017/by adminDr Rajesh Sharma: The art and science of advocacy
August 3, 2017/by adminDr Janny Leung: Tension and goals in legal communication
August 1, 2017/by adminMr Richard Bates: Can we cure lawyers of legalese?
July 27, 2017/by adminDr Christoph A Hafner: Promoting effective legal communication: An Interdisciplinary collaboration
July 25, 2017/by adminMr Harprabdeep Singh (3): My composing process
July 19, 2017/by adminMr Alexander Mak (2): Advice on oral advocacy
July 12, 2017/by adminMr Alexander Mak (1): Advice on legal writing
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