Linguistics for Justice: Advancing Reforms in the Criminal Legal System

Date: 19-Jul-2025 - 20-Jul-2025
Location: Eugene, Oregon, USA
Contact: Dominique Branson, Samantha Jacobs, Tyler Kendall, and Sharese King
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/linguisticsforjustice

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

The conference Linguistics for Justice: Advancing Reforms in the Criminal Legal System will be held on the weekend of July 19-20, 2025, as part of the Linguistic Society of America’s Summer Institute in Eugene, Oregon. This conference brings together linguists, legal professionals, and social scientists to explore how linguists, and the field of linguistics, can play a larger role in advancing criminal legal reforms.

The conference is free to attend and open to anyone interested in the intersections of language and justice in the legal system.
Please visit the conference website to view the schedule and learn more: https://sites.google.com/view/linguisticsforjustice .

In order to encourage participation at the conference, especially for students at the 2025 LSA Summer Institute, we are continuing to accept poster submissions until JULY 10, 2025. Poster acceptances will be announced on a rolling basis until July 12, 2025. We invite posters on all kinds of projects at the intersection of criminal justice and linguistics, from completed research to works-in-progress to projects in the ideation phase.

You can find the registration and poster submission form on the conference website at https://sites.google.com/view/linguisticsforjustice .

Organizing Committe:
Dominique Branson, Samantha Jacobs, Tyler Kendall, and Sharese King
Contact us: [email protected]
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/linguisticsforjustice