Official Publication of the International Academy of Legal Medicine The International Journal of Legal Medicine is the continuation of the Zeitschrift für Rechtsmedizin and its predecessors and carries ontheir tradition which goes back nearly 200 years. With immediate effect thejournal will be published exclusively in English no longer even containingGerman summaries. A further change coming into force immediately that it hasbeen adopted as the official organ of the International Academy of LegalMedicine; such it will contain newsletters relating to Academy matters standards congresses and new developments. It is the aim of the International Journal of Legal Medicine to improvethe scientific armamentarium necessary for the elucidation of crime and forrelated forensic applications at a high level of evidential proof. The subjectwill dealt with in: Review articles tracing development in specific areas and providingup-to-date analysis of them Original articles discussing recent research results of a high standard Case reports describing interesting and exceptional cases Letters to the Editors in which the readers have the opportunity ofexpressing their comments on new results reported or indeed on other matters Technical notes which appear in a section originally created for rapidpublication of data in the dynamic field of DNA analysis. Other fields havealready made valuable contributions however and of course these are alsowelcome. This section is designed to provide a forum for discussion ofinnovative protocols and methodologies: papers submitted for publication haveshould provide clear and concise information on the advantages over existingmethods and/or new data. DNA manuscripts can also deal with short validationstudies population data quality control studies etc.

國際法律醫學學會的官方出版物《國際法律醫學雜志》是《時代精神》及其前身的延續，延續了近200年來的傳統。從即日起，該雜志將全部以英文出版，甚至不再包含德語摘要。另一項立即生效的改變是，它已被采納為國際法律醫學學會的正式機構;它將包括與學院事務、標準大會和新發展有關的通訊。《國際法律醫學雜志》的宗旨是改進科學的醫療設備，以便在高水平的證據證明中闡明犯罪和相關的法醫應用。將處理的主題包括:回顧追蹤特定領域發展的文章，并提供最新的分析報告，討論最新的研究結果，高水平的案例報告，描述有趣的和特殊的案例，給編輯的信，讀者有機會表達他們對新結果的意見，或對其他事項的技術說明，出現在最初為快速出版DNA分析動態領域的數據而創建的部分。然而，其他領域已經做出了寶貴的貢獻，當然，這些也來了。本節旨在提供一個討論創新協議和方法的論壇:提交給出版物的論文應該提供關于現有方法和/或新數據的優勢的清晰和簡明的信息。DNA手稿還可以處理短驗證研究、人口數據、質量控制研究等。