LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies

BBC Radio 4: Textual Evidence
In this series, to be broadcast on Radio 4, PD James explores the emerging field of Forensic Linguistics. In a rare insight into the world of language, science and the law, this programme uses real-life criminal cases and actual police recordings to illustrate how linguistics and judicial procedure increasingly overlap. The series starts on Wednesday 6 July and following 3 weeks at 21:00.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
ECCO is an on-line multi-disciplinary research database which consists of a library of nearly 140,000 digitised titles and editions, published in the United Kingdom between 1701 and 1800. Full-text searching of more than 32 million pages takes the user directly to primary source material in facsimile copy of its original. ECCO is of universal appeal to Classicists, Medievalists, Renaissance scholars and students of the early modern period, as well as the later period of the Enlightenment. The project is based on Thomson Gale's microfilm library. Registration required for trial access.

West Indies Papers
This is a group of diverse small collections of mainly legal papers relating to estate management in the West Indies. They cover the entire geographical area of the West Indies, and the period C16th-C20th. The majority relate to estate management, but they also include family affairs.

Cohn Collection
The Cohn Collection, which comprises approximately 1,000 volumes, was presented to King's College London by Ernst Joseph Cohn (1904-1976), Visiting Professor of European Law. The collection covers all major aspects of law, but there is a particular emphasis on the legal systems of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The bulk of the material dates from the twentieth century, with a high proportion being in the German language.