The American Bar Association (ABA), Section on Real Property, Trust & Estate Law, is running its first professional development series through e-learning.
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Spanish translation & interpreting certificates, New York City
John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, USA, is offering three certificates:
Online course on the German legal system & translation
The company eCPD webinars is offering an online course on the German legal system, German law and legal translation from and into German.
Publication of International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 3.1
The International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 3.1 has just been published.
Monday smiles – Judge holds himself in contempt
Caricature of Sir James Bacon (1798-1895), Commissioner of Bankruptcy for London and later Chief Judge in Bankruptcy, Vice Chancellor, Judge of the High Court, Member of the Privy Council. Caption reads “Contempt of Court”.
A Michigan judge, Raymond Voet, has been enforcing a strict policy against mobile phones in his courtroom. He stated “I can’t stand cellphones ringing or making noises”. “I’ve taken phones from lawyers, cops, witnesses, members of the public, and the media”.
Job opportunity – Jurist Linguist, Bordeaux, France
The Montesquieu Forum at the Université de Bordeaux IV is offering a full-time position as Jurist Linguist.
Lexical portal – French
This is a really useful resource in French placed online by the French National Centre for Scientific Research. I find that it’s especially good when searching for rarer words, or words that are no longer often used. Enjoy!
BelTerme – a quadrilingual term bank from Belgium
Those of you working from French into English, Dutch or German may be interested in the BelTerme term bank from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, containing around 4000 term records. Many are sourced from the Journal Officiel (the official gazette).
Monday smiles – New generations
Hello again – it’s nice to be back. Today, I offer you this cartoon to start off your week, with many thanks and credit to Mark Anderson.
Back next week!
I just wanted to let you know that there will be a short break in posts this week – back next Monday 17 June. Have a great week everyone!
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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