6th European Conference of IAFLL – Second Call for Papers

The second call for papers for the 6th European conference of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL) is now open. Full details can be found on the conference website here: https://iafll2026.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

The call is also included below:

• The conference theme is: “Language, Power, Justice: Contemporary Issues in Legal and Forensic Linguistics.”
• Our two confirmed keynote speakers are Dr Anna Arzoumanov and Dr Eilika Fobbe (for more info: https://iafll2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/5).

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

You need to create an user account before submitting (https://portal.sciencesconf.org/user/create?forward-action=create&forward-controller=user&lang=en).

Abstracts of no more than 300 words, including references, should be sent via https://iafll2026.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit?lang=en by 1st February, 2026.