Applied Linguistics and Legal English Specialist and a lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center
About me
Julie Lake, Ph.D., is a specialist in Applied Linguistics and Legal English and a lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center. She designs and delivers Legal English programming to multilingual, international law students. Her research interests include needs analyses and second language acquisition (SLA) for specialized learner populations. With her Ph.D. from Georgetown University, she brings both disciplinary depth and pedagogical expertise to her work with multilingual, international students. This expertise extends beyond the classroom to scholarship and professional development at the intersection of law and linguistics. She is a frequent presenter at law and language conferences, and she is currently co-authoring a handbook on teaching legal writing to multilingual, international law students with her colleague, Dr. Heather Weger. A highlight of her career has been designing and delivering academic publishing workshops and training programs for Ukrainian scholars and prosecutors.
