Centre for Language and Law
Description
The Centre for Language and Law is a new Centre for Aston University. Professor Lauren Devine has joined Aston as Centre Director, bringing a wealth of experience in leading externally funded projects and conducting multi-methods research into law and policy.
The Centre for Language and Law’s initial projects use multi-method analyses of written legal material. The projects are establishing a linguistic analysis of legal texts in the context of digital justice, looking specifically at intersectionality. To contextualise this work, the analysis also considers the impact and integrity of evidential statements, identifying features of effective testimony and how this affects ‘justice’. The Centre for Language and Law is also working on term definition research, including a cross-section of areas of law particularly prone to creating social injustices and inequalities such as safeguarding and child protection proceedings, internet regulation and debt collection.
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Contact details
The Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET
United Kingdom
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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
The mission of the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics is to improve the delivery of justice through the analysis of language. The Institute studies forensic texts and contexts producing academic… read more about Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
Aston University
The Aston Triangle
The Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET
United Kingdom
University affiliation(s)
Aston University, Birmingham
Birmingham
Last modified:
2023-11-17 16:37:28