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- Interpreting law: A cross-examination by lawyers and translators
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- Summer School for Financial Translation, Luxembourg
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- Monolingual and Parallel Legal Corpora of Arabic and English Countries’ Constitutions
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- Practice Note on interpreters at Federal Court, Australia
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- Call for proposals for Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference
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- Transius Talk – Le cadre juridique de la traduction institutionnelle dans les États plurilingues : éclairage historique sur les cas de la Suisse et de la Belgique
- Conference – La traduzione giuridica: università e mondo professionale in dialogo
- Book publication – État des lieux de la traductologie dans le monde
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- Call for papers – Canadian Symposium on Language and Law
- Table ronde : Paix, justice et institutions efficaces
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- Le grand lexique français de l’intelligence artificielle
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- Stop press – Translation and Risk
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- 5th International Conference on Economic, Business, Financial and Institutional Translation
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- International Translation Day – United Nations
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- Publication: Guidebook to Intellectual Property
- Call for abstracts – Fifth International Legal Linguistics Workshop
- Graduate Diploma in Legal Translation Entrance Examination, McGill University
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- Posting will resume on Tuesday 20 September
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- Translating Europe Forum 2022
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- Latest French language terminology – 2021 report published
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- Monday smile – When fantasy becomes reality
- An inside look at the Canadian Supreme Court
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- IP in the UK & beyond: Of millefeuilles and a fish called Elvis
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- Conference – CIUTI 2022, Lima, Peru
- Symposium – Multilingualism and COVID-19
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- Justice in Practice Language & Law Colloquium
- 15th Institute of Jurilinguistics, McGill University, Canada
- Monday smile – Monday blues
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- The Machine Translation Literacy Project
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- Online workshop on Translation and/in Development
- 17th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics
- Monday smile – With all due respect
- 9th Asian-Pacific Forum on Translation and Intercultural Studies
- EULITA Conference 2022
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- Book – Legal Translation and Bilingual Law Drafting in Hong Kong
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- Monday smile – AI
- W2D2022 – REGISTRATION GOES LIVE!
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- Translation of the Chinese Civil Code published
- Monday smile – The time you waddled
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- Centralized information on translation at EU institutions
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- Happy 10th Birthday WordstoDeeds Community!
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- International Translation Day 2021
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- 2021 Juvenes Translatores contest
- Translating Europe Workshop – Aarhus, Denmark
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- Book publication – La Personne, fortunes d’une antique singularité juridique
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- Compendium of legal translation courses offered by universities (2021)
- Book publication – La traducción de contratos de compraventa inmobiliaria
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- Books about translation, interpreting, language & related stuff
- Forum – Ethics and Professionalism in Translation and Interpreting
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- Latin American laws
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- Monday smile – Croissants grow on trees
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- New words 2020-2021
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- Law guides by jurisdiction from Oxford
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- Legal translation publications by me
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- Séminaire tournant francophone de jurilinguistique – saison 2021
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- Monday smile – Feline filter
- Compendium of journals on Legal Translation & Interpreting / Language & Law
- Call for Guest Posts
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- Legal Translation / Language & Law Conferences Round-up
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- Reading Glass Project
- Monday smile and an update
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- Université d’été de la traduction financière, Brussels, Belgium
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- Seminar – Language and Translation at International Courts, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Monday smile – Plus ça change…
- Back soon
- Language training handbooks for judicial cooperation
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- Conference – Economic, Business, Financial and Institutional Translation III, Alicante, Spain
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- New special issue of translation journal (open access)
- United Nations English Language Day
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- Monday smile – Spring has sprung
- Conference – Law & Arts in Crime Settings, Örebro, Sweden
- Monday smile – Le mot mot
- AIIC Legal Interpreting Symposium, San Francisco, USA
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- Conference – The Price of Translation, Turku, Finland
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- Important! Public consultation on European judicial training
- Translating Europe Workshop on educating legal translators, Milan, Italy
- EULITA Conference & General Assembly, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Conference – Legal Translation & Interpreting in a Changing World, Bonn, Germany
- Monday smile – Negotiating positions
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- English translation of the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure (2nd edition)
- Job opportunity – Lawyer-Linguist at ECB (Dutch)
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- Téléformation : Droits et obligations du traducteur
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- Conference – Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics (Legal Linguistics), Poznan, Poland
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- Call for Papers – Jurilinguistics II, Seville, Spain
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- First Regional Conference of the International Association of the Forensic Linguists, Cape Town, South Africa
- Handbook on European Arrest Warrant
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- Translating Europe Workshop – New Technologies in Specialist Translation
- Monday smile – Tobleronegate Part 2
- Conference – V International Seminar on English and ESP Lexicology and Lexicography: The Words of the Law, Alicante, Spain
- Book – Legal Translation and Court Interpreting: Ethical Values, Quality, Competence Training
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- Book publication – 4th Edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting
- Monday smile – End of year admin…
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- Speech repository of the European Commission
- Book publication – European Contract Law
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- #W2D2018 goes live today!
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- Book publication – Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings
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- Reporting from Freiburg – Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation and Social Conflicts
- Conference – 2ème Journée Luxembourgeoise de la Traduction et de l’Interprétation
- Book publication – Introducción al Common Law
- TermFolders from the European Parliament
- Monday smile – Top tips for life by Louboutin
- It’s coming…
- Workshop – The Future Translator: Employability of Translators
- Translating Europe Workshop on Eurolects, Rome, Italy
- Be a United Nations volunteer… from your own home
- Monday smile – Dognition and dogmatics
- Standards for Working with Interpreters in Courts and Tribunals
- International Translation Day 2017 – Translation and Diversity
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- Job opportunity – Finnish translator, European Central Bank
- Translating Europe Forum 2017, Brussels
- Call for papers – Translating Research into Practice in Judiciary Interpreting and Legal Translation
- Annual report on EU translation
- Monday smile – A virtually (but not totally) perfect world
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- Third book of interviews with terminologists
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- Conference 2018 – TRANSIUS, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Name The Translator
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- Final report – Pilot database for European legal interpreters and translators
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- MOOC – Law for Non-Lawyers
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- Book – Legal English : Niezbędnik przyszłego prawnika
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- Conference – Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation and Social Conflicts, Freiburg, Germany
- What exactly is… a barrister’s clerk
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- Guide to misuse of English
- Further elucidation of the UN Resolution on Professional Translation
- Conference – 11th Summer Institute of Jurilinguistics, Montreal, Canada
- Meet the linguists: the new French government is packing some pretty intimidating skills
- Monday smile – Evidence
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- Book – Les mots du droit/Legal Thesaurus
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- Monday smile – Craved cheese
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- Guide to Canada’s system of justice
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- Advertising campaign by translators’ professional body
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- Visuwords
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- EULITA Conference & General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
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- #W2D2017 *** Photographer *** stop press
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- World Legal Translator’s Day
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- Monday smile – Mince pie legalities
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- Forum for early-stage researchers in specialized communication
- 21st Conference on Language for Specific Purposes, Bergen, Norway
- Monday smile – Meandering roads
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- Book publication: Electronic signatures in law
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- Quebec House to host Bijuralism and Bilingualism à la canadienne!
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- Second Pre-conference event #W2D2017 – EU Legal Translation: Past, Present and Future?
- Pre-conference event #W2D2017 – A Practical Workshop on using Corpus Linguistics for Law
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- Monday smile – Arresting trees
- Book review – Videoconference and Remote Interpreting in Criminal Proceedings
- Book review – Fraseología y lenguaje judicial: Las sentencias penales desde una perspectiva contrastiva
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- Book publication – Comparative Law for Translators
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- Conference – Challenges to professional translation & interpreting in the justice sector, London, UK
- Monday smiles – Dispute resolution
- Conference – Legal Discourse: Forms and Functions, Shanghai 2013
- Book review – Found in Translation
- Signage changes in Quebec
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- e-learning – FR/PT notarial practice, company/business law, law of obligations,& family law
- Proz Lawyer-Linguist Virtual Event
- From Louboutin to lawyer-linguists?
- Judge gives lawyers editing lessons
- Monday smiles – Crackpot UK laws
- Article about forensic speech analysis & new magazine
- Free talk at Europe House, London, on IT at the Commission
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- Monday smiles – Pleading
- iPad app – TransLegal dictionary
- Stop press – EU translation memories updated *again*!
- Monday smiles – Jail bird
- Guest post – Reporting from Montreal
- Multilingual glossary on secure documents
- Stop press – Official forum to collect evidence on UK court interpreting scandal
- Monday smiles – British Judge rules that iPad is cool
- Corporate finance glossary
- Clear video guide to the US legislative process
- Monterey offers 5-day course in court interpreting (2013)
- Monday smile – Innocent gardeners
- Lessons in powerful writing (from a lawyer, of all people!)
- Reporting from Brussels – Translation Studies Days, part 4
- Reporting from Brussels – Translation Studies Days, part 3
- Monday smile – Maple syrup marauders
- Reporting from Brussels – Translation Studies Days, part 2
- Happy Birthday WordstoDeeds!
- Reporting from Brussels – Translation Studies Days, part 1
- Japanese court interpreters under pressure
- e-learning – EN/PT legal translation
- Legal drafting guide worth its weight in gold
- Financial crisis terminology workshop in London
- NAJIT conference 2013 – Call for papers
- Monday smiles – Bedtime story
- Two webinars on Brazilian law
- Legislation – translating in a vacuum
- Conference – CIUTI forum
- Results of poll on the look of WordstoDeeds
- Hot Coffee – film review
- Codifying common law
- Volunteering or lending with Kiva microfinance network
- Monday smile – Out of the mouths of babes…
- Problematic terms of art used in contracts
- Plain language in Denmark
- RELINE – Annual seminar 2012
- Reporting from Canterbury – Part 3
- What exactly is corpus linguistics?
- CPD at City University, London
- Legal translation seminar in Kentucky
- Lexacom face-to-face legal terminology workshops
- Compendium – Legal English qualifications
- Upcoming legal & financial translation webinars from eCPD
- MIT OpenCourseWare – free online learning resources
- Summer digest
- Tweaking the look of WordstoDeeds
- Life as a rural court interpreter
- Monday smiles – Alternative Dispute Resolution the Old-Fashioned Way: Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Short seminars at the London Language Show
- Reporting from Canterbury – Part 2
- Reporting from Canterbury – Part 1
- WeBiText – another translation search engine
- CJEU rules on ‘IP translator’ as a UK trade mark
- 20 tips for lawyers working with interpreters
- Plain language in Portugal
- Online volunteering with the United Nations
- Translation studies days in Brussels
- Measuring how well contract attorneys speak foreign languages
- Monday smiles – Disclaimer
- Linguee – the translation search engine
- Translation and interpreting jobs at EU – apply now!
- Conference – Translating Cultures, International Mediation
- Colonial ruling
- Quebec’s Official Gazette now free access
- Conference – 6th Summer Institute of Jurilinguistics
- Reporting from Poznan – Part 2
- Reporting from Poznan – Part 1
- Applied Language Solutions – finally, something is to be done (hopefully)
- Procedures in EU countries – European Judicial Network
- Canadian radio show discusses court interpreting
- Factsheets on justice systems in 5 EU countries
- Simultaneous interpreting – from origins to a globalised world
- Monday smiles – Urgency
- Factsheets on European Court of Human Rights case law
- Origins of simultaneous interpreting techniques
- A profusion of national law websites!
- What exactly is comparative law?
- Glossary – US Patent & Trademark Office
- Monday smiles – Words and letters
- Legal considerations – machine translation and copyright
- Quantifying the cost of poor quality in translation – sour cherries
- Lexique des termes juridiques
- Reminder: English legal terminology webinars
- Call for volunteers – the China Guiding Cases Project
- Spanish bailout conditions impenetrable behind a thicket of legalese (or not)
- Monday smiles – Appropriate shoes
- Translation of ancient Chinese legal texts ‘as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls’
- Taniguchi case outcome – A good or a bad thing for justice?
- International Monetary Fund glossary updated
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913
- Council of Europe French-English Legal Dictionary
- N-Lex – Gateway to national law
- Two great legal thesauri
- UK legislation 1267-present, online
- Monday smiles – I give you this orange
- ATA webinar – Translating civil procedure from Spanish into English
- Reporting from Caserta – Part 2
- Reporting from Caserta – Part 1
- Translating through the fog
- New Zealand legislation website improved
- Conference – Forensic Linguistics, Oporto, Portugal
- Monday smiles – Sea-ing double
- Zen and working methods
- Thousands of contracts from SEC filings
- When we are asked to translate useless materials…
- Lawyers’ flash mob in green t-shirts
- Legal Translation Explained
- ‘Business-ese’ may be worse than legalese
- Stop press – EU’s DGT translation memories triple in size
- Conference update – Portsmouth
- Compendium of legal translation degrees offered by universities
- Translation of national legislation
- Chief Justice cannot believe his ears
- Extensive collection of resources on international trade
- Easter Monday smiles – English beaches are grassy green
- Britain’s ancient statute book
- WordstoDeeds update
- Monday smiles – The sky is blue
- Find significant cases more quickly using Google Scholar
- New web-radio programme by the French Ministry of Justice
- What exactly is a lawyer-linguist?
- Resources digest
- Conference – Legal Linguistics, Poznań, Poland
- Monday smiles – Nutkin the squirrel
- English legal terminology webinars
- Translations as an adversarial device – Part 1
- EU Law course by HEC free on iTunesU
- RELINE – Legal linguistics network
- Termium® becomes quadrilingual and has a special legal section
- Monday smiles – Kent Police crush local pesto ring
- Life as a freelance court reporter…
- Interpretation versus translation at the US Supreme Court
- Tenacious Teflon®
- Another excellent Spanish legal dictionary
- English-Spanish / Spanish-English legal dictionaries
- Reminder – Twitter moot tomorrow!
- Poll results – How about inviting a lawyer?
- What exactly is forensic linguistics?
- Monday smiles – a burning question
- Conference – Law, Language and Professional Practice, Naples, Italy
- 135 Corpus-Based Monolingual Dictionaries
- JPC Law uses Facebook to serve Worldwide Freezing Injunction
- Reporting from Geneva
- Abbreviations & acronyms – the bane of my life
- Omne trium perfectum – everything that comes in threes is perfect
- Coffee break training
- Finding out about you
- Monday smiles – light bulbs and arks
- Multilingual semantic map on steroids
- Heads up
- Legal Language Explorer
- A selection of useful iPad apps
- World’s first Twitter moot
- Spreading smiles
- New Year’s resolutions
- Conference – ‘Those Who Can, Teach’: Translation, Interpreting and Training
- Season’s Greetings
- Trilingual termbase for the Portuguese Parliament
- Mixed metaphors
- Collaboration or exploitation?
- OECD glossaries
- New access to supreme court rulings in French
- Play with words and do some good in the world
- Legal history, fish, olive oil and a call for papers
- Update on N-grams
- Google N-grams, tracking word use
- Simply the best legal humor blog
- JustCite – new developments
- Canadian legal advice – webinar library
- Are you an accidental outlaw?
- Conference – Comparative law: Engaging translation
- The dictionary on steroids
- Be a better buyer of legal translation: upcoming free webinar
- Machine translation of the law
- Access to legal translation and interpreting
- Legal humour from a historic bookseller
- Legal translation conference in Lisbon, Portugal
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