This recorded talk introduces Professor Tim Grant’s presentation on his short book, The Idea of Progress in Forensic Authorship Analysis (Grant, 2024), outlining how forensic authorship analysis is positioned among other forensic sciences in the UK, the United States, and Australia, and noting its growing use as courtroom evidence despite its still‑emerging status. The discussion highlights the methodological challenges of establishing the reliability of authorship attribution and profiling, and frames these issues within broader questions about the admissibility of newer forensic techniques.
Bears on: authorship & stylometry · concepts & methods