A contributor to the Forensic Linguistics List has just mailed the following items which may also be of interest to ASC members.

The full list of resolutions of the University and College Union Higher Education Sector Conference (31 May) can be found at:

http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=4652

These two refer to the abuse of libel laws to silence academic discussion and dissent (eg recent Simon Singh / British Chiropractic Association case and the Eriksson-Lacerda / Nemesysco defamation issue), and the influence on career promotion by a private company.

HtH, Charlesw

Some links to the Eriksson-Lacerda paper since that might be less well known on this list:

“Charlatantry in forensic speech science” http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Israeli_Nemesysco_censored_Lie_Detector_analysis_from_the_International_Journal_of_Speech_Language_and_the_Law,_2007 www.cs.columbia.edu/~julia/papers/eriksson&lacerda07.pdf