John Gabriel Olsson
Curriculim Vitae

Master of Arts in Linguistics (University of Wales)

Master of Philosophy in English (University of Birmingham)

Member, since 1994, of the International Association of Forensic Linguists

Author of Forensic Linguistics textbook: "An Introduction to Language, Crime and the Law" Continuum Books, March 2004, details at: http://www.continuumbooks.com/author_details.cgi?aid=4669&ssid=KHQC39ODM5CPAA8HDO2A40

Adjunct Professor, Masters of Forensic Science, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska (distance learning instructor in forensic linguistics) (ref: Prof Jody Meerdink, Psychology Dept).

Have submitted reports to the FBI, House of Commons (UK Parliament), Foreign Affairs Committee, Hutton Inquiry.

Since 1995/6 have operated a website on forensic linguistics (www.thetext.co.uk). Now the number one on the Google and Yahoo search engines. Have handled more than 80 authorship and plagiarism cases in this time.

Currently reporting to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, a pre-appeal court body which determines whether cases have sufficient material to present to the House of Lords, in re HM Regina v Gurmail Singh Basra, Case No. 87/0411.

Recently reported to plaintiffs in an industrial tribunal case in Northern Ireland (Case No: 00289/00FET, 01274/00 and following). A six-figure settlement was achieved which was due, in part, to the authorship attribution undertaken in this case by me.

Have advised a police force in the US on statement analysis in connection with sexual assualt complaints and authorship in suicide texts.

Have worked with a number of universities in the UK and the US in connection with plagiarism cases (University of Iowa Medical school and the University of Surrey, School of Management).

Have written a report for the San Francisco Chronicle on plagiarism (ref: Adair Lara).