Dear all,
The first 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:
First call of 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.