This series of documents is a compendium of the current status of knowledge about the language of law. The most important approaches of well-known protagonists in the field of forensic linguistics are compiled, surveyed and discussed in detail.

This volume presents a collection of systematically linked contributions by expert linguists, lawyers, and writers on the problems of understanding legal language, on the methodology of empirically measuring the comprehensibility of texts, and on the opportunities for transdisciplinary co-operation between lawyers and linguists.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum an international colloquium was held on the subject a oeAncient Medicine at the Interface of Humanities and Sciencesa . This volume publishes the contributions of international experts, who draw attention to the importance of ancient medical authors and to the historical roots of modern medicine, in particular with reference to topical questions such as health and therapy research, holistic medicine and medical ethics.

This series of documents is a compendium of the current status of knowledge about the language of law. The most important approaches of well-known protagonists in the field of forensic linguistics are compiled, surveyed and discussed in detail.