The book Forensic Linguistics in Australia: Origins, Progress and Prospects, by Diana Eades, Helen Fraser and Georgina Heydon has just been published online by Cambridge University Press.
It presents an account of forensic linguistics in Australia since the first expert linguistic evidence in 1959, through early work in the 1970s-1980s, the defining of the discipline in the 1990s, and into the current era.
It starts with a consideration of some widespread misconceptions about language that affect the field and some problematic ideologies in the law. Continue reading
A Handbook on Legal Languages and the Quest for Linguistic Equality in South Africa and Beyond is an interdisciplinary publication located in the discipline of forensic linguistics/ language and law. This handbook includes varying comparative African and global case studies on the use of language(s) in courtroom discourse and higher education institutions: Kenya; Morocco; Nigeria; Australia; Belgium; Canada; and India. 
A Canadian Symposium on Language and Law will take place at York University, Toronto, Canada from 16-18 June 2023.
The University of Nantes is hosting an online seminar with Julien Longhi on 21 May 2021 at 14.00 -16.00 CET. He will present the debate in France surrounding the use of forensic linguistics in the “Petit Grégory” case.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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