This recorded lecture by Prof. Robert A. Leonard (NYU Guest Lecture: Solving Crimes with Linguistics) outlines the breadth of forensic‑linguistic practice, ranging from prosecution and counter‑terrorism to trademark disputes and death‑penalty cases, and emphasizes that virtually all legal evidence involves language. The talk illustrates authorship profiling and questioned‑document analysis through a case study in which a French‑language anomaly in threatening messages led to the identification of the sender, demonstrating how linguistic demographic profiling can aid rapid investigations.
Bears on: authorship & stylometry · concepts & methods · the letters