POWELL Richard

College of EconomicsProfessor

Research Keyword

  • Alternative dispute resolution
  • Syariah law
  • Common Law
  • Legal systems
  • Southeast Asia
  • Postcolonial society and law
  • Comparative law
  • Language and linguistics
  • Language policy
  • Legal Systems
  • Malaysia
  • Media and mass communication
  • Cross-cultural pragmatics
  • Human rights

Field Of Study

  • Humanities & social sciences, International law, Comparative Law
  • Humanities & social sciences, Foreign language education, Foreign language education
  • Humanities & social sciences, Linguistics, Linguistics and Comparative Culture
  • Humanities & social sciences, Linguistics, Socioinguistics
  • Humanities & social sciences, Linguistics, Forensic linguistics
  • Humanities & social sciences, Social law, Human rights law

Educational Background

  • 2014
    University of Melbourne, Graduate School of Education, School of Law, Educational linguistics and law
  • 2005
    Macquarie University, Graduate School of Psychology, Division of Linguistic Sciences, Language Policy
  • Sep. 1987 - Sep. 1989
    College of Law, Faculty of Laws, Law
  • Sep. 1985 - Sep. 1986
    School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, School of Oriental Studies, Political Science Dept., Political Science
  • Oct. 1978 - Jun. 1981
    Cambridge University, History, History

Award

  • University of Cambridge, Academic Exhibition, Peterhouse, Cambridge University.
  • Macquarie University International Student Academic Merit Prize

Paper

  • (Overlaps and contrasts between statutory interpretation and forensic linguistics)
    Richard Powell
    月刊 税理, Dec. 2023, Refereed
    Lead
  • Toothless Rhetoric or Strategic Polemic? A Textual and Contextual Analysis of Japan’s Hate Speech Law
    Richard Powell
    International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, Dec. 2022, Refereed, Invited
    Lead
  • Judges’ perspectives on Malaysia’s bilingual legal system
    Richard Powell; Tiong Guan Saw
    Asian Englishes, Jan. 2022, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Asian-based contributions to forensic linguistics research and the potential of local multilingual law
    Richard POWELL
    ASEAN Journal of Applied Linguistics, Sep. 2021, Refereed, Invited
    Lead
  • Multilingual legal practice and law student internships in Malaysia
    Powell; Richard & Saw Tiong Guan
    World Englishes, Jan. 2021, Refereed
    Lead
  • Sociopolitical origins and legal outcomes of official multilingualism. (Review article )
    Richard Powell
    The Asian Journal of Law and Society, Mar. 2020, Refereed, Invited
    Lead
  • Time to go naked? Rules and reforms surrounding LGBT people in Japan.
    Richard Powell
    Australian Journal of Asian Law, Nov. 2019, Refereed, Invited
    Lead
  • Destruction and Reconstruction in Cinematic Portrayals of Tokyo
    Richard Powell
    International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, Sep. 2019, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Language, imagery and ideology in Japanese law and administration. (Editorial.)
    Richard Powell
    International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Aug. 2019, Refereed
    Lead
  • Images and Narratives of Law and Order in the Manga KOBAN
    Richard Powell; Hideyuki Kumaki
    International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, Jul. 2019, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • La presse anglophone et la recolonisation linguistique, administrative et juridique de Singapour pendant l’occupation japonaise. (The anglophone press and linguistic, administrative and judicial recolonisation in Singapore under the Japanese occupation
    Richard Powell
    International Journal of the Semiotics of Law,, 2019, Refereed, Invited
  • The fall and rise of English in common law
    Nihon University College of Economics Kenkyu Kiyo Research Bulletin 84, Apr. 2017, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Unbalanced bilingualism, diglossia and class division in postcolonial law.
    International Journal of Legal Discourse, Dec. 2016, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Speak English or What? Codeswitching and Interpreter Use in New York City Courts (Review article)
    Richard Powell
    The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, Dec. 2015, Refereed, Invited
    Lead
  • (Evidence of Japan’s imperial language policy from its English language newspapers: the case of Shōnan).
    パウエル リチャード
    Kenkyu Kiyo Research Bulletin, Jan. 2015, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Language and religion in Asian texts and contexts (Editorial)
    Richard Powell; Maya David
    International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Aug. 2014, Refereed
    Lead
  • Language disadvantage in Malaysian litigation and arbitration.
    Richard Powell; Azirah Hashim
    World Englishes., Jan. 2011, Refereed, Not invited
    Corresponding
  • Terminological creation and language shift in Malaysia's legal system.
    Richard Powell
    Current Issues in Language Planning (Multilingual Matters, UK), Dec. 2004, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • The rhetorical influence of first-language cultural transfer on second-language writing: contrasting views from Kubota and Hinkel.
    Richard Powell
    Nihon University College of Economics Kenkyu Kiyo 45, Apr. 2004, Not refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • The relevance of recent cognitive research to the question of a 'critical age' for second language acquisition.
    Richard Powell
    Nihon University College of Economics Kenkyu Kiyo 41, Apr. 2003, Not refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Language planning in Kenya and implications for other multilingual postcolonial polities.
    Richard Powell
    Nihon University College of Economics Kenkyu Kiyo., Apr. 2002, Not refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Language Planning in the British Empire: comparing Pakistan, Malaysia and Kenya.
    Richard Powell
    Current Issues in Language Planning (Multilingual Matters, UK)., 2002, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Diversity in the face of globalisation: the challenge for ELT.
    SPELT Journal (Society of Pakistan English teachers), Oct. 2001, Not refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Questions arising from the use of popular film in law-based ESP and content-EFL courses.
    Richard Powell
    Perspectives: Journal of English Language Teaching and Teacher Education (Czech Republic), Jan. 2000, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Mr Sluizer goes to Hollywood and vanishes without a trace: the pitfalls of foreign language film remakes and some pointers for cross-cultural studies
    Richard Powell
    Bulletin of Seikei University, Jan. 1999, Not refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Considering a Framework in which to examine the role of language laws and policies in former British colonies.
    Richard Powell
    Nihon University College of Economics Kenkyu Kiyo, Oct. 1998, Not refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Answer machine language use: a preliminary investigation into cross-cultural differences.
    B. Natusch; R. Powell
    Nihon University College of Economics Kenkyu Kiyo 26, Apr. 1998, Not refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Uses of law as a subject for content-based English-language teaching.
    Richard Powell
    Oumon Ronsou, Mar. 1995, Not refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • A Comparison between Japan and England of the Legal Status of Amnesty International and Implications for the Law regarding Non-Profit Public Interest Groups in Each Country
    Richard Powell
    Seikei University Research Bulletin (Tokyo), Dec. 1994

Books and other publications

  • ★'Research Design'. In 'Getting Started with Research: A Guide to Research Methodology'
    Richard Powell, Contributor, Jen Allwood; Elisabeth Ahlsén & Azirah Hashim
    University of Malaya Press., 2021, Refereed
  • The impact of English on law in Southeast Asia (Chapter in Moody (ed) Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes
    Single work
    Oxford University Press, May 2024
    9780192855282
  • (Progress of Forensic Linguistics in Asia)
    橋内武; 堀田秀吾; 法と言語; 法言語学へのいざない, Contributor
    Kuroshio, Feb. 2024
    9784874249536
  • Movement Control Order or “Making Confusing Order”? Discourses of confusion about lockdowns in a Malaysian news portal
    Richard Powell; Zarina Othman, Single work, Ikuko Nakane, Claire Maree and Michael C. Ewing (eds.) (in press. 2023), 141-160. Discourses of Disruption in the Time of COVID: Creating and Contesting Meaning through Asian Languages
    Leiden University Press, Nov. 2023
    9789087284237
  • Persuasive or coercive? Cultural and institutional factors behind penalty-free laws in Japan and implications for management of Covid-19.
    Single work, In Anne Wagner & Aleksandra Matulewska (eds.) (October, 2023) Research Handbook on Jurilinguistics, 264-281
    Edward Elgar, Oct. 2023
    9781802207231
  • The sun also rises: flying the Japanese flag amid contested national narratives. In Wagner & Marusek (eds) Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity, and Critique
    Richard Powell, Single work, Richard Powell
    Springer, Feb. 2021, Refereed
    9783030328641
  • English in Asian legal systems. In Bolton & Kirkpatrick (eds) Handbook of Asian Englishes.
    Richard Powell, Single work, 863-886, Richard Powell
    Wilesy Blackwell, Sep. 2020, Refereed
    9781118791806
  • Language choice in postcolonial law. Lessons from Malaysia’s bilingual system
    Richard Powell, Single work, Richard Powell
    Springer Nature, Feb. 2020
    9789811511738
  • Language planning and legal systems (Chapter in Viscont (ed.) Handbook of Communication in the Legal Sphere
    Richard Powell, Single work, pp 83-108, Richard Powell
    Chapter in J. Visconti (ed.) Handbook of Communication in the Legal Sphere: De Gruyter., Aug. 2018, Not refereed
    9781614516699
  • Rules and unruliness in manga depictions of community police boxes.
    Richard Powell; Hideyuki Kumaki, Joint work
    Chapter in Giddens, Pearson & Tranter (eds.) Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture: from crime fighting robots to duelling pocket monsters. Abingdon: Routledge, Jul. 2018, Not refereed
    9781315136134
  • Perceptual, cultural and linguistic challenges facing Japan as a site of international arbitration.
    Single work
    Chapter in Bhatia, Gotti, Azirah Hashim, Koh & Rajoo (eds.) International Arbitration Discourse and Practices in Asia. Routledge, Jan. 2018, Not refereed
    9781138282216
  • John Gibbons
    Single work
    In Chapelle, Carol (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons., Jan. 2013, Not refereed
    9781405194730
  • English in Southeast Asian Law.
    Single work, 241-266.
    Chapter in Ee-Ling Low & Azirah Hashim (Eds.) English in Southeast Asia: Features, Policy and Language in Use Amsterdam: John Benjamins. In press, Jan. 2012, Not refereed
    9789027249029
  • Exploring language choice in Malaysian trials and arbitrations: common aims,complementary methods.
    Azirah Hashim; Richard Powell, Joint work, 129-161, AzirChapter in Petersen; Margrethe and Engberg; Jan (eds.) Current Trends in LSP Research: Methods and Aims. ah Hashim
    Bern, Switzerland. Peter Lang, Dec. 2011, Not refereed
    9783035103588
  • Law in Japan, law in the world.
    Richartd Powell; 堀田秀悟; Fathima Marikkar, Joint work, 堀田秀悟、Fathima Marikkar
    Asahi Press, Oct. 2011, Not refereed
    9784255155180
  • Touring Britain - language and travel tips.
    相澤; 伊藤, Joint work, 相澤、伊藤
    Asahi Press, Oct. 2011, Not refereed
    9784255155098
  • Assessing and inculcating sociopragmatic awareness of joking in Japanese ESL learners.
    Single work, 57-89
    Chapter in David, Lean & Meng (Eds.) Bridging the Gap Cross-Cultural Communication., Aug. 2011, Not refereed
    9834381719
  • Language alternation in Kenyan and Malaysian courts.
    Maya Khemlani DAVID, Joint work, 227-250., Maya Khemlani DAVID
    Chapter in Anne Wagner & Cheng Le (Eds.) Exploring Courtroom Discourse: The Language of Power and Control. Book series Law, Language and Communication London: Ashgate. With Maya David., Jul. 2011, Not refereed
    9781315581620
  • Asian Englishes
    Single work
    Seoul: Prounsoop, Dec. 2010, Not refereed
    9788996023968
  • Language alternation in Malaysian courtrooms.
    Single work, 135-152
    Chapter in David, McLellan, Rafik-Galea & Ain (Eds.) Code Switching in Malaysia. Berlin: Peter Lang., Oct. 2009, Not refereed
    9783631595640
  • The roles of English in Southeast Asian legal systems.
    Single work, 155-177
    Chapter in Lucia Siebers and Thomas Hoffmann (Eds.) World Englishes: Problems - Properties - Prospects. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins., Sep. 2009, Not refereed
    9789027249005
  • Bilingual courtrooms: in the interests of justice?
    Single work, 131-159
    Chapter in Gibbons & Turrell (Eds.) Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics. Amsterdam:John Benjamins., Oct. 2008, Not refereed
    9789027205216
  • Motivations for language choice in Malaysian courtrooms.
    Richard Powell, Single work, Richard Powell
    Kuala Lumpur:University of Malaya Press (Malaysia), Sep. 2008, Not refereed
    9789831004586
  • Japanese English as an Asian English: by, for and of the Japanese? Recent debate on the interface between EFL and EIL in Japan.
    Richard Powell, Single work, 269-282, Richard Powell
    Chapter in Azirah & Norizah (Eds.) Varieties of English in South East Asia and Beyond. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press., Oct. 2006, Not refereed
  • English through the News Media (series)
    Joint work, Joint author, editor, with Noriko Itoh, Akira Uesugi and Masami Takahashi
    Asahi, 2006
    9784255157122
  • Viewpoints in Law.
    Richard Powell, Single work, Richard Powell
    Tokyo:Macmillan Language House, Sep. 1996, Not refereed
    4895852350
  • Law Today .
    Richard Powell, Single work, Richard Powell
    Harlow: Longman/Pearson (UK)., Sep. 1993, Not refereed
    0582056357

Lectures, oral presentations, etc.

  • Practitioners across Jurisdictions: Discursive and Linguistic Differences Reported by Malaysian Bijural Lawyers.
    Richard Powell
    Panel on Lawyers, panel on Lawyers, Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Dec. 2023
  • Multilingual law – is it worth it? Some answers (and questions) from around Asia. (Invited plenary speech)
    Richard Powell
    16th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Law and Legal Linguistics, Jul. 2023, Invited
  • Lawyers as cultural, discursive and linguistic mediators: a focus on Malaysia's bijural practitioners.
    Richard Powell
    Workshop on Language, Religion and Discrimination at 21st International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, May 2023
  • Exploring the potential of technology for generating clearer messages and better translations during emergencies: examples from pandemic measures in Japan and Malaysia
    Richard Powell
    Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, University of Law, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Dec. 2022
  • Multilingual law and its potential for Asian-based contributions to forensic linguistics research.
    Richard POWELL
    MAAL Asia-Pacific Conference, Aug. 2022, Invited
  • The ongoing ‘confusion’ in the Malaysian online news; the corpus way.
    Richard POWELL; ZARINA Othman; AZHAR Jaludin
    MAAL Asia-Pacific Conference, Aug. 2022, Not invited
  • ‘Ambiguity in Legal Texts and Challenges for the Regulation of Pandemics’
    Richard Powell
    Santo Tomas International Conference on Forensic Linguistics, Sep. 2021, Invited
  • ‘Compliance and complaints in media commentary on Malaysian movement control orders’
    Richard Powell
    Asian Law and Society Conference 2021, Sep. 2021, Not invited
  • ‘Contested concepts of “indigenous, language” in Malaysia’
    Richard Powell & Azirah Hashim
    AILA (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée ), Aug. 2021, Invited
  • The Asahi Rising Sun flag: emblem of prosperity and fortune, or genocidal banner?
    Richard Powell
    15th Conference on Translation, Interpreting,and Comparative Legilinguistics (online), Jun. 2021, Not invited
  • Shallow supremacy? The political and judicial discourses of linguistic justice in Malaysia
    Richard Powell
    Sociolinguistics Symposium 23, Jun. 2021, Janny Leung, Invited
  • Clarity and accessibility in law ,and the challenges of multilingualism
    Richard Powell
    Malaysian Association of Applied Linguistics: Webinar on Managing Transdisciplinary Research on Multilingualism under the Challenges of the Pandemic, Jul. 2020, Invited
  • The Asahi Rising Sun flag: emblem of prosperity and fortune, or genocidal banner?
    Richard Powell
    15th Conference on Translation, Interpreting,and Comparative Legilinguistics (online), Jun. 2020, Not invited
  • Language as a facilitator, indicator and inhibitor of national and international legal rights in Malaysia
    Asian Law and Society Association Conference, Dec. 2019, Not invited
  • How many sexes is both sexes? Legal and lay interpretations of commonplace words in Japan’s marriage equality debates and possible implications for linguists.
    Richard Powell
    14th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, Jul. 2019, Not invited
  • Language, Legal Education and the Internationalisation of Japanese ADR
    Richard Powell
    Korea-Japan Joint Seminar on Law & Language, Jun. 2019, Korea-Japan Joint Seminar on Law & Language, Not invited
  • Authorised texts and ideological conflict in multilingual postcolonial law.
    20th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, May 2019, Not invited
  • Multilingualism, multiculturalism and multijuralism in Malaysian law’
    Legal Communication in a Multilingual and Multicultural Context, Mar. 2019, Invited
  • Enactments, judgments, rules and customs: legal and quasi-legal agents of linguistic justice in Malaysia
    Asian Law and Society Association Conference, Nov. 2018, Not invited
  • Political, cultural and linguistic symbolism in postcolonial Bruneian and Tongan law.
    Richard Powell
    A common quandary for new common law courts: Panel at Law and Society Association Conference, Jun. 2018, Not invited
  • English-based loanwords in Japan's aging society
    23rd IAWE (International Association of World Englishes) Conference, Ateneo de Manila University., May 2018, Not invited
  • Language factors in Asian arbitration: comparing Japan and Malaysia
    Asian Law and Society Association Conference., Dec. 2017, Not invited
  • Ideology and pragmatism in bilingual law
    13th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, Jul. 2017, Not invited
  • Comparing legal and educational language planning in Southeast Asia
    18th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Jul. 2017, Not invited
  • The Use and Non-use of Interpreters in Bilingual Legal Systems
    International Conference on Legal and Healthcare Interpreting, Feb. 2017, Invited
  • 英契約法の歴史的背景
    コモンロー契約法のシンポジウム, Feb. 2017, Invited
  • Multilingual and multicultural competences in Malaysian law offices
    Inaugural Asian Law and Society Association Conference., Sep. 2016, Not invited
  • Bilingualism, diglossia and class division in postcolonial legal systems’
    6th International Conference on Law, Language and Discourse, Aug. 2016, Not invited
  • Bilingual legal education in Bangladesh’
    2nd Asian Regional Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, Manila., Jul. 2016, Not invited
  • The role of education in Malaysian bilingual law
    International Conference on Language Policy and Multilingual Education, Myanmar Ministry of Education, Mandalay University., Feb. 2016, Not invited
  • One country, two jurisdictions: comparing language policy and practice in East and West Malaysian law.
    18th ESEA (English of South East Asia) International Conference., Nov. 2015, Not invited
  • User- vs. use-orientated language in the legal systems of Fiji and Tonga
    21st IAWE (International Association of World Englishes) Conference., Oct. 2015, Not invited
  • Challenges for bilingual legal education: evidence from a Malaysian law faculty.
    Richard Powell; Chew Li Hua
    12th Biennial IAFL (International Association of Forensic Linguists) Conference., Jul. 2015, Not invited
  • Vernacularisation and lexical innovation in postcolonial Asian law.
    10th Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics., Jun. 2015, Not invited
  • Teaching, researching and living bilingualism.
    Seminar on Research Development and Communication Skills, National University of Laos, Vientiane, Apr. 2015, Invited
  • Internationalisation of higher education: African students in Malaysia and comparisons with Japan.
    Richard Powell; Nurjaanah Chew Li Hua; Magesan Ayavoo; Mogana Sunthari Subramaniam; Seyed Nasser Yazdi; Cecilia Tong and Lee Luan Ng
    2nd AFRASO Conference on African-Asian Encounters., Mar. 2015, Not invited
  • (Asia’s common law lawyers and the language-based class divisions)
    法と言語学会第6回年次会, Dec. 2014, Not invited
  • Courtroom trials and ADR in Malaysia: methodological issues.
    Richard Powell. Azirah Hashim
    Panel on ‘Making Applied Linguistics Matter: Opportunities for Engaging with Professional Practice’. 17th AILA World Conference of Applied Linguistics., Aug. 2014, Not invited
  • Communication skills of Malaysian lawyers: falling standards, or changing standards?
    17th ESEA (English in Southeast Asia) Conference, Nov. 2013, Not invited
  • Language policy and practice in civil and Syariah law courts in Malaysia.
    Azirah Hashim; Richard Powell
    International Association of Forensic Linguists 11th Biennial Conference, Jun. 2013, Not invited
  • Language reform and judicial transparency: Asian legal systems as sites of linguistic, cultural and ideological conflict.
    13th IALL (International Conference on Linguistic Law), Chiangmai, Thailand., Dec. 2012, Not invited
  • Legal vernacularisation and access to justice.
    IAFL (International Association of Forensic Linguists) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Jul. 2012, Not invited
  • Motivations for and implications of changing the language of the law: lessons from Malaysia.
    Panel on 'Language policy and legal decision-making' , Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Honolulu HI., Jun. 2012, Not invited
  • Comparing language policy and practice in Malaysia’s civil and syariah law courts.
    Azirah Hashim
    International Conference of the Languages for Specific Purposes and Professional Communication Association, Los Angeles: University of Southern California, Mar. 2012, Not invited
  • English or Malay or both? Comparing language policy and practice in the courts of East and West Malaysia.
    ESEA (English in Southeast Asia) 16th International Conference, Sanata Dharma University, Jogyakarta, Indonesia., Dec. 2011, Not invited
  • Language contact in legal contexts: comparing bilingual discourse in Malaysian common law, syariah and arbitration cases.
    Azirah Hashim
    IAWE (International Association of World Englishes) 17th International Conference, Monash University, Melbourne., Nov. 2011, Not invited
  • Language planning as a means of ameliorating language disadvantage before the law. An international comparison of postcolonial initiatives
    Symposium on Language, Law and Society, University of Malaya, Oct. 2011, Not invited
  • Comparing language policy and discourse management in Malaysian syariah and common law courts.
    Azirah Hashim.
    East Asian Law and Society Conference, Seoul., Sep. 2011, Not invited
  • Style-switching and code-switching in arbitral and adversarial interactions: a Malaysian perspective.
    Azirah Hashim.
    Panel on ‘Interdiscursive colonization of arbitration practices’. AILA 16th World Conference of Applied Linguistics, Beijing., Aug. 2011, Not invited
  • A comparison of questioning, turn-taking and code-switching in Malaysian syariah and common law courts.
    Richard Powell; Azirah Hashim
    International Association of Forensic Linguists 10th Biennial Conference, Aston, UK., Jul. 2011, Not invited
  • Quotation as a trigger for code-switching in Malaysian courtrooms.
    Panel on ‘Quoting from the text file:Intertextual practices in courtroom discourse’. 12th International Pragmatics Conference, Manchester., Jul. 2011, Not invited
  • Challenges facing the construction of a vernacular legal system in Timor Leste/Timor Lorosae.
    Panel on ‘Language shift in postcolonial law: comparing East Asian policies and practices. Law and Society Annual Conference, San Francisco., Jun. 2011, Not invited
  • Language policy and practice in Timor Leste’s emergent judicial system.
    15th EASA (English in Southeast Asia) Conference, University of Macau., Dec. 2010, Not invited
  • Forensic linguistics in (a) criminal and (b) civil cases.
    Symposium on Language and the Law, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur., Nov. 2010, Not invited
  • Language alternation in postcolonial common law courtrooms.
    Panel on ‘Leaking Languages: Multilingual language use in professional contexts’, International Conference of Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Association, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur., Jul. 2010, Not invited
  • Supporting bilingual professionals in Asian legal systems.
    International Conference of Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Association, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur., Jul. 2010, Not invited
  • Media Debate and Private Discourse on Language Policy in Malaysian Law.
    Symposium on ‘Public and Private Discourses in Multilingual Malaysia’, Conference of the International Communication Association., Jun. 2010, Not invited
  • Managing language disadvantage in multilingual contexts: comparing policy and practice in Malaysian litigation and ADR.
    Inaugural East Asian Law and Society Conference, University of Hong Kong., Feb. 2010, Not invited
  • Questioning in law: a comparison of courtrooms and arbitrations.
    Azirah Hashim
    VIII International Roundtable on the Semiotics of Law, City University, Hong Kong. (Co-presented with Azirah Hashim.), Dec. 2009, Not invited
  • Comparing language policies in Asian postcolonial legal systems.
    第一回法と言語学会年次会, Dec. 2009, Not invited
  • Lexical evidence of Japanese military, political, sociocultural and educational policies in the wartime English-language press.
    14th EASA (English in Southeast Asia) Conference, Ateneo de Manila, Philippines., Nov. 2009, Not invited
  • English and the vernaculars in English-based legal systems: from colonisation to cohabitation.
    15th International Association of World Englishes,, Oct. 2009, Not invited
  • A comparison of language use in adversarial and arbitral contexts in Malaysia.
    Dr Azirah Hashim; University of Malaya.
    XVII European Symposium on LSP., Aug. 2009, Not invited
  • Language Policy, Language Choice and Language Alternation in Conflict Resolution: Comparing Adversarial and Arbitral Discourse in Multilingual Malaysia.
    Dr Azirah Hashim; University of Malaya.
    IAFL (International Association of Forensic Linguists) VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Jul. 2009, Not invited
  • ADR in multilingual contexts: language policy and language choice in Malaysian mediation and arbitration.
    Law and Society Association International Conference, Denver, USA., May 2009, Not invited
  • Linguistic and cultural barriers to justice: comparing the responses of the Japanese and Malaysian legal systems to the challenges of globalisation.
    SoLLs. INTEC International Conference, Putrajaya, Malaysia., May 2009, Invited
  • Asian newspaper Englishes:comparing local lexis in outer and expanding circle contexts.
    M. David & F. Dumanig; University of Malaya.
    International Association of World Englishes, Hong Kong., Dec. 2008, Not invited
  • Language policy and code choice in conflict resolution: comparing adversarial and arbitral contexts.
    Dr Azirah Hashim. University of Malaya.
    International Conference on Forensic Linguistics, China Association of Forensic Linguistics, Guangzhou., Nov. 2008, Not invited
  • The impact of differential cultural, linguistics and discursive constraints on commercial arbitration in Malaysia.
    Dr Azirah Hashim; University Malaya.
    International Workshop: Linguistic and Discursive Aspects of International Arbitration, University of Milan, Italy., Sep. 2008, Not invited
  • Adversarial and arbitral discourses in Malaysian conflict resolution.
    Dr Azirah Hashim; University of Malaya.
    Conference on Language and Law. Dubrovnik, Croatia., Sep. 2008, Not invited
  • What can we learn from bilingual legal systems?
    4th Symposium of Japan Law and Language Society., Jun. 2008, Not invited
  • Language choice and language alternation in Malaysian courtrooms.
    Law and Society Association, Montreal, Canada., Jun. 2008, Not invited
  • Bilingual legal systems: how unusual is the Malaysian case?
    Conference on Multiculturalism and Law, University of Malaya, May 2008, Not invited
  • The discourse of arbitration practice in Malaysia.
    Dr Azirah Hashim; University of Malaya.
    12th EASA (English in Southeast Asia) Conference, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand., Dec. 2007, Not invited
  • The shifting roles of English in Southeast Asian legal systems.
    Symposium on Legal Discourse and Forensic Linguistics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur., Nov. 2007, Not invited
  • Malaysian language policy – from the classroom to the courtroom.
    2nd International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity, Waikato University, New Zealand., Nov. 2007, Not invited
  • English in Southeast Asian legal systems: convergent practices and divergent cultures.
    13th IAWE (International Association for World Englishes) Conference, Regensburg University, Germany., Oct. 2007, Not invited
  • The role of English in Malaysian law and evidence for a distinctive Malaysian English legal register.
    Richard Powell
    International Symposium on Malaysian English Language and Literature, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur., Jul. 2006, Not invited
  • English in Malaysian courtrooms: a help or a hindrance to the evolution of the Malay legal register?
    Richard Powell
    10th EASA (English in South East Asia) Conference, University of Brunei., Dec. 2005, Not invited
  • Language policy in the ELT classroom: reviewing the possibilities for bilingual teaching and reflecting on the need for flexible planning.
    SPELT International Conference, Karachi, Pakistan., Sep. 2005, Not invited
  • Motivations for codeswitching in Malaysian courtrooms.
    Richard Powell
    IAFL (International Association of Forensic Linguists) Conference, Cardiff University, U.K., Jul. 2005, Not invited
  • Corpus planning and language shift in Malaysian law.
    Richard Powell
    Asialex (Asian Lexicography) International Conference, Singapore., Jun. 2005, Not invited
  • English of, for and by the Japanese? Recent debate on the interface between EFL and EIL in Japan.
    Richard Powell
    ESEA (Englishes of South East Asia), University of Malaya., Nov. 2004, Not invited
  • International intelligibility vs. local identity in the Asia Pacific: the ESL-EFL divide.
    Richard Powell
    East-West Center EWC-EWCA Conference, Nihon University,Tokyo., Aug. 2004, Not invited
  • Constraints on language choice in postcolonial legal systems: comparing Kenya and Malaysia.
    Maya Khemlani David; Richard Powell.
    Language, Law and Life Symposium, 13th International Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, Lucknow, India., Dec. 2003, Not invited
  • Multiple-choice discourse-completion questionnaires for assessing sociopragmatic awareness of joking.
    Richard Powell
    JALT PAN-SIG Conference, Kyoto., May 2003, Not invited
  • Colonisers colonised: English Fiction on Film.
    Richard Powell (Symposium members: G. Law; N. Morita; B. Natusch and R. Powell).
    English Fiction on Film Symposium, Japan English Literature Society, Tokyo., May 2001, Not invited
  • Language planning in Kenya and Malaysia.
    SPELT International Conference, Karachi, Pakistan., Oct. 2000, Not invited
  • Angry men and argumentative women: the pros and cons of using film to depict the common law jury system.
    Richard Powell
    LSP Forum, Charles University, Prague., Sep. 1999, Not invited
  • ESP and cross-cultural studies for law students.
    1st International ATECR Conference, Prague., Sep. 1998, Not invited
  • Performing vs Presenting in Voice-Mail and Pager Protocol.
    R. Powell; B. Natusch
    6th International Pragmatics Conference, Reims, France., Jul. 1998, Not invited
  • Crime in the classroom: using film and TV images of law and order in cross-culural studies.
    Third Conference of the Association of Language Teachers of the Czech Republic, Kromeris., Sep. 1997, Not invited

Affiliated academic society

  • Sep. 2016 - Present
    Asian Law and Society Association
  • May 2009 - Present
    Japan Association of Law and Language
  • Dec. 2008 - Present
    Law and Society Association
  • Jun. 2003 - Present
    International Association of Forensic and Legal Linguistics

Research Request Themes

  • Bilingualism in postcolonial legal systems
  • Analysis of English legalese, Interested in researching not only English legalese but the legal register of Japanese, Malay and other languages.

Research Themes

  • A Study onParaphrases of Civil Legal Terms Based on Lay Perception
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 01 Apr. 2012 - 31 Mar. 2014
    OKAWARA Mami; TANAKA Makiro; POWELL Richard; KANEMITSU Hiroyuki; MIYAZAKI Yumi

Others

  • AMNESTY IN...
    1993 - 1993
  • AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS.
    1993 - 1993