I’m happy to announce today the recent publication by Routledge of Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings – A Corpus-based Interdisciplinary Perspective, edited by Stanislaw Goźdź-Roszkowski and Gianluca Pontrandolfo.
The volume is intended to be a resource for linguists interested in phraseology as well as lawyers and legal scholars, translators, lexicographers, terminologists and students who wish to pursue research in the area.
Today it is a pleasure to inform you of the recent publication of a comparative study of notarial deeds issued in the French and Spanish legal systems “Manual de traducción jurada de documentos notariales en materia de sucesiones entre los sistemas jurídicos francés y español“.
It is intended for legal and certified translators, lecturers and researchers in the field of Legal Translation Studies, and for comparatists and notaries public wishing to consolidate their thematic competence on civil law and, specifically, on French and Spanish notarial and inheritance law. Continue reading
Today I am delighted to inform you of the recent publication of a very useful book by the well-known Spanish lawyer-linguists Ruth Gámez González and Fernando Cuñado de Castro. The title is “Introducción al Common Law“, published by Thomson Reuters, and it is available as an e-book or on paper, or both – what more could we ask!
The third collection of interviews with prominent terminologists has just been published by the Terminology Coordination Unit at the European Parliament.
The book explores corpora, training, translation and terminology, termbase projects, lexicography, standards, and a lot more! Continue reading
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
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.
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
