Call for papers

We invite proposals for individual papers and poster presentations on topics related to forensic linguistics and language and the law, including but not limited to: 

Law on language: Language & Human Rights; Language policy and linguistic rights; Language crimes, Legal responses to hate speech or the spread of disinformation

Legal language: Legal genres; Critical approaches to legal languages; Language education for law professionals; Multilingualism & the law; The comprehensibility of legal documents; The history of legal languages

Spoken interaction in legal contexts: Courtroom, police and prison discourse; Investigative interviewing; Interpreting & translation in legal contexts; Vulnerable people & the legal system; Language minorities and the legal system

Linguistic evidence and investigative linguistics: Forensic phonetics and speaker identification; Forensic stylistics; Authorship analysis; Determining meaning in forensic contexts; Plagiarism detection and analysis; Trademark disputes; Consumer product warnings; Deception and fraud

Abstracts of no more than 300 words, including references, should be sent via https://iafll2026.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit?lang=en by 30th November, 2025.

Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and an additional 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts may be submitted in French or in English.
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