James Faulkner
(President)
Jim taught English in a number of locations before settling in Hamburg in the late seventies. He holds degrees in history and law, as well as a post-graduate certificate in education and a masters in teaching English as a foreign language. Having decided to specialise in legal English, he taught at the law faculties of Hamburg and Augsburg before being appointed head of languages at Bucerius Law School, a post he holds currently. His teaching interests include interactive teaching based on legal content (case studies), contract drafting and mooting. He is LS of an internal ESOL centre offering ILEC, and also offers courses in law firms.
Myriam Farhand
(Vice-President)
Myriam Farhand, Rechtsanwältin, is a practicing lawyer who teaches legal English to students, paralegals, executives and lawyers. She has taught at various institutions, such as the Duale Hochschule Mannheim, SRH Hochschule Heidelberg and the University of Heidelberg. She also offers in-house training for law firms and international companies.
Matthew Firth
(Secretary)
Matt is the ILEC Regional Manager for Austria and Germany and runs regular workshops on teaching Legal English. He has recently completed an MA dissertation on materials and course design in English for Legal Purposes, and is co-author of the International Legal English (Cambridge University Press) online research tasks. Matt also teaches English for Legal Purposes at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland and the Hochschule Vaduz, Liechtenstein. He is currently writing Introduction to International Legal English (CUP, 2008) together with Amy Krois-Lindner,and is production manager on the PLEAD Legal English blended learning course (TransLegal/Boston University/Cambridge University Press). Matt Firth and Amy Krois-Linder have been commissioned to produce a regular column on Legal English for Business Spotlight.
Dorthe G.A. Engelhardt
(Treasurer)
Dorthe G. A. Engelhardt, M.A. (Norwich) taught English (EFL, EAP, EBP) at various institutions of higher and further education in Germany. She became responsible for Legal English language training at the Faculty of Law and Economics of Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald in 2001 when the English module of the newly established LL.B. Programme was offered for the first time. Besides ELP and EALP she has remained involved in EAP in general and EBP. At the beginning of the academic year 2007/08 she launched a new two-year course leading to the Greifswald Certificate in English for Law, which is intended to prepare for the ILEC exam at the same time. She is one of the founding members of EULETA and has held the post of treasurer since its establishment in March 2007.
Alan Jones
Alan Jones is a law graduate of London University and an English solicitor. During his professional career he worked as an in house lawyer with an airline for ten years and was a commercial law partner with a large English legal practice for several years. During the last part of his legal career he ran his own niche legal practice.
He specialised in business and international commercial law with particular emphasis on the aviation, travel and tourism industries. For this work he was elected to membership of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He is also a member of Clarity which is a worldwide group of lawyers whose aim is to promote the use of clear language within the legal profession.
In 2006 he give up his transactional legal practice and following a course at Sussex University, where he obtained his CertTesol, he decided to concentrate on teaching. His current main interest is providing English courses to aviation and legal professionals as well as running practical training workshops on aviation and international commercial law for people working in those sectors.
Paul East
Paul East is the founder and managing director of The Pyramid Group which offers a range of specialist English training (ESP) as well as providing translations and interpreting in 58 langauges. He is also the owner of eBooks World, an online publishing venture. He is the ELTAU president (English Language Teachers Association of Ulm / Neu-Ulm) and President of the Ulm Toastmasters. Paul is also active as the coordinator des International Association of Technical English Trainers (IATET) as well as being a founding member of EULETA. Memberships include Arbeitskreises für Technikgeschichte, Ulm, Ulm / Neu-Ulm Marketing Clubs and BVMW (Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft Unternehmerverband Deutschland e.V.).