Legal Languages

• The history of legal languages
• The role of literacy in legal languages
• Legal genres
• Critical approaches to legal languages
• Language education for law professionals

Legal Discourse

• Courtroom, police and prison discourse
• Investigative interviewing
• Multilingual matters in legal contexts
• Power and the law
• The comprehensibility of legal documents
• Interviews with vulnerable witnesses in the legal system
• Language minorities and the legal system
• Linguistic disadvantage before the law
• Courtroom interpreting and translation
• Human rights matters

Law on language

• Language rights
• Offensive language
• The linguist as expert witness

Linguistic evidence and investigative linguistics

• Forensic phonetics and speaker identification
• Forensic stylistics- Linguistic determination of nationality
• Authorship analysis
• Plagiarism
• Trademark disputes
• Consumer product warnings
• Deception and fraud

Other Related Sub-Themes

• Computational Forensic Linguistics
• Intercultural mediation
• Comparative law
• Multimodal approaches to forensic linguistics