Last week saw the publication of Shaping EU Law the British Way: UK Advocates General at the Court of Justice of the European Union, a significant part of which looks at the opinions of a great champion of translators and translation – Eleanor Sharpston.
“In this book, leading scholars of EU law, judges, and practitioners unpack the judicial reasoning offered by the UK Advocates General in over forty cases at the Court of Justice, which have influenced the shape of EU law. The authors place the Opinions in the wider context of the EU legal order, and mix praise with critique in order to determine the true contribution of the UK Advocates General, before hearing the concluding reflections by the UK Advocates General themselves. Continue reading
This week, I came across a scarcely credible clause in the terms of a service of the contentious corporation Amazon. Reported in 2016 on Spiceworks, it is, amazingly, still online. In fact, according to the webpage, it was updated 6 days ago!
After a two-year pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are pleased to announce that the Transius Talk Series will resume this year.
The Department of Legal, Language, Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Trieste is organising a conference entitled “Legal translation: academia and practice in dialogue” from 1 to 2 December 2022 – which will also be streamed.
I’ve been waiting for the publication of this tome for ages. And here it finally is!
The European Central Bank has four vacancies for trainee lawyer-linguists in the following: German, French, Italian and English as main language.
A Canadian Symposium on Language and Law will take place at York University, Toronto, Canada from 16-18 June 2023.
Rendez-vous le 8 décembre 2023 pour la 2ème conférence du cycle dédié à la thématique transversale de l’ISIT en 2022-23 : “Paix, justice et institutions efficaces”. Le thème : le droit d’accès à la justice pour les étrangers : volet juridique et linguistique. 
This week Twitter served up a delightful error from 2016:
We are having a French week on the blog so far, n’est-ce pas ?😊
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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