International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL)

Description

The International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL) is a membership association devoted to improving the functioning of legal systems worldwide through a better understanding of the interaction between language and the law. It welcomes anyone studying, researching, or working with language in legal contexts or with language used as evidence. The Association promotes the study and analysis of legal language (legal documents, legal discourse, and the language of courts, law-making bodies, policing, and the penal system), the application of linguistics-based knowledge to legal problems, and the alleviation of language-based inequality and disadvantage, including matters of legal interpreting and translation. It fosters exchange between the legal and linguistics communities, advances best practice and professional ethics in expert testimony and the presentation of linguistic evidence, and works to broaden public understanding of language and the law. Its activities include organising international biennial and regional conferences, providing members with the International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, promoting a Code of Practice, and collecting and making available computer corpora of value to forensic researchers.

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Founding year

1993

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Additional Partnerships

International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA)