The EULETA Legal English Conference VIII will be held from Friday 22nd to Saturday 23rd September 2023 in Warsaw, Poland, co-organised by Kozminski University Language Centre and EULETA, the European Legal English Teachers’ Association.
EULETAʼs membership is made up of many people working in different capacities in legal English, for example: lawyers, linguists, translators, legal English trainers for professionals, and legal English university professors. Continue reading
Planning to start the week by being dutiful on the admin side?
Horrid but it’s got to be done…
Have a great (and productive) week! 😊 Continue reading
The European Commission has helpfully produced a video guide to assist potential applicants interested in the new call for tenders for translation services (#TRAD23).
The video contains four presenations:
The other day I came across a helpful and succinct set of definitions ranging across many fields, published by the French Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE).
The definitions are official ones, and even contain many legal references. Continue reading
Zoom fatigue? See below.
Enjoy your week!
Oh, and if you need a legal connection to this smile, see “Consolidated Cat Laws” from Michegan State University’s Animal Legal and Historical Center*.
In a historic decision this week, Spanish was adopted as third official language of the HCCH – Hague Conference on Private International Law as of 1 July 2024.
The official announcement notes: “It is a triumph for multilinguism & multilateralism benefiting over 24 member States & treaty parties & 700M people worldwide. The decision will foster participation at HCCH meetings of Spanish & Portuguese speaking countries & a better implementation of the conventions benefiting all States parties connected by the conventions worldwide”. Continue reading
The estimable Emma Goldsmith, a medical translator with a background in nursing, is conducting an anonymous survey to gain an overview of workstation set-ups, break strategies, and upper-body problems of translators and editors, and to investigate how respondents counteract the negative impact of working long hours at the computer.
The survey, on the platform ‘EU Survey‘ made available by the European Commission, has 18-35 questions (depending on your responses) and will take about 5-10 minutes to complete. Continue reading
You may or may not have heard, but in England at the moment there is a tomato shortage – to the point that they are being rationed by supermarkets.
The UK Government responses:
A Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference to be held on Friday 13 October 2023, with pre-conference workshops on Thursday 12 October. The conference will be held at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School in Provo, Utah.
Proposals are invited for individual papers and panels. The organizers are open to submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Continue reading
Enjoy your week. 😊
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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