(Image credit: Eurekastreet) Editor's note: This article is based on a presentation delivered as part of a plenary panel, ‘Transdisciplinary Approach to Forensic Linguistics’, at the 16th Biennial Conference of the…
Laura Smith-KhanJuly 3, 2023
Image credit: Chris Montgomery via Unsplash Language plays a central role in legal settings. The way linguistic diversity is conceptualized and accommodated can affect access to justice in a myriad…
Laura Smith-KhanNovember 2, 2021
Editor’s note: The Language on the Move team is delighted to announce the publication of Language Rights in a Changing China, a new book by our member Dr Alexandra Grey. To celebrate…
Language on the MoveJune 1, 2021
(Image credit: Grey & Smith-Khan, 2021) Together with another Language on the Move regular, Laura Smith-Khan, I have just published a new article about ‘bringing linguistic research into legal scholarship…
Alexandra GreyMay 7, 2021
Language learning is integral to practice-based legal education, and needs to be given more attention in research and course design. That’s the key message of my recently published article about…
Alexandra GreyOctober 15, 2020
Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…
Sigurd D'hondtJuly 1, 2020
In a world where public debates about refugees and asylum seekers often focus on whether they are telling the truth, it should probably come as no surprise that government processes…
Laura Smith-KhanMay 6, 2020
Laura and Alex getting ready for their presentation at the Humboldt Symposium This time two years ago, Alexandra Grey (my blog co-author) and I had realized that there were important…
Laura Smith-KhanJanuary 20, 2020
Indigenous Australians are imprisoned at much higher rates than non-Indigenous Australians (Source: Australian Law Reform Commission) Note: This post was co-authored with Laura Smith-Khan. Language on the Move mover-and-shaker, Dr…
Alexandra GreyJuly 23, 2019
2019 Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists Note: This post was co-authored with Alexandra Grey. The Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL) was held…
Laura Smith-KhanJuly 18, 2019
Multilingual advice provided by the Administrate Review Tribunal Countries in the Global North have developed increasingly sophisticated and complex processes to assess the claims of people seeking asylum. One key…
Laura Smith-KhanNovember 14, 2017
Before starting my PhD in sociolinguistics at Macquarie University, I had the great privilege of being involved in a research project that was run out of Sydney Law School at…
Laura Smith-KhanSeptember 11, 2017
When people arrive in countries of the global north to seek asylum, they often bring with them little more than their stories of persecution. As receiving countries develop increasingly restrictive…
Laura Smith-KhanJune 14, 2017
Asylum seekers in Australia face a few very public hurdles. Successive governments have used increasingly restrictive refugee policies to gain votes. Meanwhile, the media often focuses on the issue of…
Laura Smith-KhanMarch 15, 2016
"You have the right to remain silent" (Source: Tumblr) “You have the right to remain silent” is an expression familiar to many English speakers. But what is involved in understanding…
Diana EadesDecember 2, 2015
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