Last week I had the opportunity of meeting the author of an excellent book entitled “Legal English : Niezbędnik przyszłego prawnika“. The book, with a Polish focus as the title indicates, teaches legal English for a range of areas of law including: family, inheritance, property, contract, employment, financial, tax, and criminal law, as well as European law, public international law and constitutional law, and more. Continue reading
Category Archives: Books
Book publication – Translation and Public Policy
If you are interested in the wider implications of translation, and how it is – or isn’t – integrated into public policy, this scholarly volume is for you.
The book covers areas such as linguistic justice, language planning and language policy, interpreting in the higher education system, policy evaluation, and translation and the law.
Book – Les mots du droit/Legal Thesaurus
The third edition of Les mots du droit: Lexique analogique juridique / Legal Thesaurus by Louis Beaudoin is not a recent publication, but no less useful for all that. Continue reading
Book publication: Introducción a la lingüística forense
A new book has just come out on forensic linguistics, by Gerald R. McMenanim, published by The Press at California State University, Fresno.
Since it is in Spanish, the remainder of this post follows suit…
Book publication – Towards the Professionalization of Legal Translators and Court Interpreters in the EU
A couple of months ago Cambridge Scholars Publishing released “Towards the Professionalization of Legal Translators and Court Interpreters in the EU“, the proceedings of a conference held in Opatija, Croatia, in March 2015 and edited by Martina Bajčić and Katja Dobrić Basaneže.
Book publication – Comparative Law for Spanish-English Lawyers
Readers may be interested in a recently published book entitled Comparative Law for Spanish-English Lawyers: Legal Cultures, Legal Terms and Legal Practices / Derecho comparado para abogados anglo- e hispanoparlantes: Culturas jurídicas, términos jurídicos y prácticas jurídicas. Continue reading
Book publication: Electronic signatures in law
Signatures and, more recently, digital evidence are at the heart of many legal translators’ work, so I’m sure that readers will be interested in this 4th edition of Electronic Signatures in Law by Stephen Mason, a barrister and research fellow.
