Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913
In a historical vein today, I wanted to tell you about a way to discover English criminal law through the …
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Council of Europe French-English Legal Dictionary
For anyone who has recently starting working in the language pair French to English, or those who might not already …
N-Lex – Gateway to national law
Another post on the subject of national law. I just had to share this with you. N-Lex is a fairly …
Two great legal thesauri
First off, the Multilingual Thesaurus of the European Union, EuroVoc, has been upgraded. Available in 24 languages, it doesn’t work …
UK legislation 1267-present, online
To add to recent posts on access to national legislation, here is the UK: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/. Do click to enlarge the picture …
Monday smiles – I give you this orange
Everyday phrase: “I give you this orange.” Legal translation: Know all the persons by these presents that I hereby give, …
ATA webinar – Translating civil procedure from Spanish into English
I just came across this very interesting webinar organized by the American Translators Association (ATA) – and thought you might …
Reporting from Caserta – Part 2
This second post includes a further selection of papers from the conference Law, Language and Professional Practice held in Caserta …
Reporting from Caserta – Part 1
Today, dear readers, I offer you a report from the conference “Law, Language and Professional Practice“, held last week in …
Translating through the fog
The other day I came across this nice clean web-based tool which calculates the Gunning Fog readability score for a piece …
