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ILETA Scientific Committee – 2024

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ILETA is proud to announce the establishment of the ILETA Scientific Committee 2024. 

The Members of the ILETA Scientific Committee 2024 are:

  • Agyepong-Mensah, Denise
  • Barisic, Jasmina
  • Chojecka, Agnieszka A
  • Giampieri, Patrizia
  • Gillio, Cristina
  • Kosonogavo, Olga
  • Lattanzi, Catia
  • Pietrzyk-Kowalec, Paulina
  • Teichert, Tonya
  • Parastatidou, Sofia

 

BIOGRAPHIES

 

Agyepong-Mensah, Denise

Denise is a qualified Teacher of law and a legal English coach.
 
After completing a BA (Hons) in History at SOAS, University of London, she completed an LLB (Hons) at City University, London and an LLM in Human Rights at Birkbeck, University of London. 
 
Additionally, Denise is a CELTA qualified English teacher with a PGCE teaching qualification from UCL’s Institute of Education where she was graded an ‘outstanding’ educator. 
 
For the past 9 years, in addition to teaching English and legal English to non-native speakers of English, she has been teaching law to native and non-native speakers of English in various British institutions including, Birkbeck College, University of  London. 
 
Denise currently teaches Foundation law and Pre-Masters law at International Foundation Group.
 
Furthermore, Denise coaches motivated international law students and lawyers who aim to improve their legal English skills. 

Barisic, Jasmina

Jasmina Barišić holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Language and Literature and is an official court translator and interpreter for the English language.

Jasmina is the founder of the Speak Easy Foreign Language Center, which has been successfully preparing participants for various types of internationally recognized certificates for 20 years. Jasmina is also a holder of the CELTA certificate, specialising in the methodology of teaching foreign languages.

With great dedication, she approaches the preparation of her lectures using innovative and creative teaching methods in order to enable her students to learn foreign languages more easily and quickly. Jasmina has lectured at various international conferences on Legal English. 

Chojecka, Agnieszka A

Agnieszka an independent English tutor with over 23 years of experience in designing courses for legal, financial and business English learners. 

Agnieszka’s lifelong passion for creating her own study materials resulted in the launch of a unique website for learners of legal English. 

Agnieszka studied English Philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Thanks to her first business and legal English students, most of whom valued their time and expected fast language progress, she has developed highly effective teaching and learning methods.

Since 2004 Agnieszka has worked exclusively with legal and financial professionals designing individual and group courses for recognised Polish law firms and legal departments of international companies in Poland.

Outside of work Agnieszka’s fascination with education continues as she avidly reads about recent developments in psychology, neurolinguistics, explores memorising techniques or delves into the Socratic method of teaching. One of her teaching goals is to encourage legal English students to become independent language learners.

Giampieri, Patrizia

Patrizia Giampieri, PhD is an adjunct professor of English at the University of Camerino (MC, Italy). She is a registered translator and interpreter for the Court of Perugia (Italy). Her last scientific monograph is titled “Legal machine translation explained: MT in legal contexts” (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023). 

 

Kosonogavo, Olga

Olga Kosonogova is an Associate Professor of Southern Federal University Rostov-on-Don,RF and has a PhD in Linguistics (Candidate of Philological Sciences)

Olga has published more than 50 papers (monographs, articles, student’s books) and is the co-author of online-course “Legal Communication: Legal Writing and Oral Communication in the Practice of Law”.

Lattanzi, Catia

Catia Lattanzi is a conference interpreter and lecturer in simultaneous interpreting. In 2020, she was elected President of the Italian Association of Legal Interpreters and Translators (AssITIG, Associazione italiana traduttori e interpreti giudiziari). In March 2023 she was elected as member of EULITA’s ExCom (European Legal Interpreters and Translators).

Registered with the Chamber of Commerce of Milano-MonzaBrianza-Lodi in the category translators and interpreters, she is deeply committed to training and deontology.

 

Pietrzyk-Kowalec, Paulina

Paulina Pietrzyk-Kowalec  is an English philologist, a scholar, a holder of the title of PhD in Strategic Management at Apsley Business School in London, a lecturer at WSB Merito University in Warsaw, a researcher on the impact of artificial intelligence on different branches of business, an expert in Legal English, an author of valued scientific publications, a member of the global scientific association WASET, a speaker and an award winner at international scientific conferences. 

Teichert, Tonya

Tonya Teichert is an American living in Germany who has been teaching Medical & Legal English for 17 years. Her background began in critical care nursing where she used those skills to begin a career as a Legal Nurse Consultant.

She went on to attend law school and upon completion, received her MBA. She worked, primarily, in insurance defense and medical malpractice and product liability litigation. After moving to Germany, she began teaching specialized language courses for both private clients and institutions, including doctors, nurses, nursing students, medical organizations, corporate legal seminars, and university legal programs, as well as training-the-trainer courses for Occupational Health and Safety.

Parastatidou, Sofia

Sofia Parastatidou (Special Counsel) is a practising solicitor admitted in England and Wales, a member of the International Bar Association and New York State Bar. She has been training lawyers, accountants, and notaries as well as students at various Universities, Bar Associations, In-house. She is the founder and President of ILETA (International Legal English Teachers’ Academy) and the author of Legal English (Pearson 2021).

 

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