Recent PhD in a topic related to language & the law?

[Nicci MacLeod]

Dear all,

The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law is a
peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles on any aspect of legal
language, including courtroom language, police interviews, issues of legal
interpreting, analysis of spoken and written forensic texts, and issues of
comprehensibility in legal contexts.

The journal invites PhD. abstracts for possible inclusion in its pages
during 2009, in Volume 16 (1).

The abstracts are intended to:

(a) enable those who have recently completed a PhD. to disseminate a
summary of their work amongst members of the academic commuinity who have
an interest in language and the law; and

(b) provide journal readers with snapshots of PhD. theses which have
recently published in the field of language and the law.

If you have successfully completed a thesis on any area connected to
language in legal settings within the last 3 years, or have a PhD. award
for a thesis relating to the field pending, you are warmly invited to
submit an abstract for consideration. As with articles, all abstracts will
be refereed before a decision is made to publish and the editors’ decision
will be final. All abstracts submitted should be 400-1000 words long. I
regret that any submission which is longer than 1000 words cannot be
considered.

Please submit abstracts in English to Nicci MacLeod via the upload tool on
the IJSLL website:
http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/IJSLL/index

When submitting, please provide the following details:

Personal details:
Your name; Current full institutional address; Current job title; Current
email address (essential) and telephone number (optional).

Thesis details:
The full title of the PhD. thesis; The full name and address of the
institution and department/school/faculty (as applicable) which conferred
(/will confer) the PhD. degree; Date of the award of the degree; Contact
details (email if possible) for a supervisor or other person at that
institution who would be willing to verify the award.

Details about the abstract:
A note of the size of the abstract (in words); Up to six keywords suitable
for indexing and on line search records.


Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions and I look
forward to receiving your contribution.

Kindest regards,

Nicci MacLeod
Editor, PhD. Thesis Abstracts,IJSLL

Centre for Forensic Linguistics
School of Languages & Social Sciences
Aston University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET
macleodn at aston.ac.uk