Discovery Series Guest Speaker: Dr. Robert A. Leonard, Professor of Linguistics, Hofstra University

Abstract: “Forensic Linguistics Applications to Intelligence, Law Enforcement, Counterterrorism and Threat Assessment, and the one-week FBI intensive training courses now taught at Hofstra University.”

Leonard will share his story of being recruited by the FBI BAU to Quantico after the success of his first murder case. He will discuss authorship analysis, demographic linguistic  profiling, semantic pragmatic approaches to cases including false confessions, the recent  Forensic Linguistics Justice Project Case  of Texan Melissa Lucio, and the Beverly Hills bomb case. 

Learn more: https://ci.unt.edu/discovery-series/robert-leonard

Location:

• In-person: General Academic Building, Room 317 
• Online: Register via Zoom