Friedemann Vogel is a full professor of Computer-Assisted Socio- and Discourse Linguistics at the University of Siegen, coordinator of the Heidelberg Group of Legal Linguistics founded in 1984 and former founding president of the »International Language and Law Association« (ILLA, 2017-2019). In 2012, he developed the world's largest reference corpus of German-language law (JuReKo) and, together with Dr. Dr. Hanjo Hamann, heads the »International Research Group Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics«. Main research areas: language and law, linguistic discourse and image analysis, political and media-mediated communication as well as computer-assisted, quantifying approaches to linguistic patterns as complementary methods to qualitative hermeneutics and ethnography. More information at: www.friedemann-vogel.de.