Another book published

Krzysztof Kredens and Stanislaw Roszkowski's edited collection on 'Language and the Law: International Oulooks' has been published by Peter Lang GmbH. To see the table of contents and read a sample chapter, follow this link.

\ Posted on 6 January 2008

New book

Malcolm Coulthard and Alison Johnson's 'An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence' was published by Routledge last week. A short description can be found on the publisher's website.

\ Posted on 17 December 2007

Summer School 2007

The seventh edition of the International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis was held at Aston Univesrity from 17 to 21 September. We hosted 15 participants who came from all over the world. Austria, Ghana, Japan, Malaysia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, USA and the UK were all represented. To see the programme, click here.

\ Posted on 30 September 2007

IAFL 2007 Conference

Over 90 papers were presented during the eighth biennial conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, which took place at the University of Washington in Seattle between 12 and 15 July 2008. Malcolm Coulthard gave a plenary talk on 'Expressing and Evaluating Expert Opinions'. Krzysztof Kredens and Tim Grant presented papers entitled 'Linguistic Expert Evidence in Polish Courts' and 'Where Linguists (Should) Fear to Tread - Some Limits to Forensic Linguistic Evidence', respectively contributing to a special panel on 'International Account of (Linguistic) Authorship Attribution (AA)', chaired by prof. Hannes Kniffka of Bonn University. The conference website is still online - the abstracts can be found in this pdf file, and the programme is here.

\ Posted on 30 July 2007