Since one of the aims of this blog is to build bridges between academia and practice, I was delighted to see that the December issue of Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series -Themes in Translation Studies on “Research models and methods in legal translation” had been published in digital form for the first time, and with open access.
Category Archives: Books
Bilingual legal glossary – Cameroon
Below is a press release I came across that may be of interest. If anyone manages to obtain the glossary and would like to send in a review, it would be great!
Promoting language learning for personal development, careers and society
The British Academy, in collaboration with the European Commission, has released a new booklet for undergraduates and school pupils (but it’s really interesting for all of us!) called “Talk the Talk: A Guide to Maximising your Prospects Using Languages”, which promotes languages as a “long-term investment for you, your career and for society”.
Legal drafting bibliography (US English)
The United States Law Library of Congress has recently published a bibliography of books that can help beginners with legal drafting. The list includes:
Summer reading
Do you read more in the summer, on the beach or in your garden?
Monday smiles – The party of the first part
Today’s Monday smile is a whole book! It is one of my favourites – hope you’ll like it too!
Book – Legal English (US) for international practitioners
Hot on the heels of last week’s post about a book on effective legal writing, here is a second volume by the same author – Kevin J. Fandl, adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center in the United States.
Book publication – Effective legal writing
The full title of the book is Lost in Translation: Effective Legal Writing for the International Legal Community, and it has recently been published by the well known database publisher LexisNexis. The author, Kevin J. Fandl, is adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.
Book publication: The New Professional Court Interpreter
Tony Rosado, whose guest posts on this blog you might have read – on the Taniguchi case, on translating useless materials, and on how judges work with interpreters, has recently published a guide to assist new court interpreters during their first few months as professionals and, in his words “face, for the first time, the reality of working within the legal system as an officer of the court“.
Tony runs Rosado Professional Solutions in Chicago. He has been a freelance conference interpreter for almost 30 years and is Federally, Colorado, and New Mexico certified. He also qualified as an attorney from the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City. You may also be interested in his English/Spanish blog.
Book talk – Big Data and its Dark Side
I thought some of you might be interested in this talk at Harvard Law School by the authors of the book Big Data: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University in the UK, and Kenneth Neil Cukier, Data Editor of The Economist.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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