For those who have been away in the last few weeks, here’s a digest of some key posts from July and August.
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Wolters Kluwer CEDAM has recently published The Italian Code of Criminal Procedure: Critical Essays and English Translation.
I’ll make my position clear from the outset – anyone working in the legal field with Italian/English, including, for example, translators, lawyers, officials, or the judiciary, should buy this book *now*!
I keep seeing beach reading posts in national newspapers, but thought how nice it would be to share international titles amongst readers of this blog.
So do write in and tell us about your favourites, whether they be crime, legal or others, in their original language or in translation. For those in Australia and similar climes, please read fireside for beach!
I’ll start the ball rolling with a couple of collections of short stories from the Italian publisher Sellerio (whose catalogue includes many of the Montalbano books).
The latest issue of The Journal of Specialised Translation is now available, including articles on crime fiction in translation, video interviews with crime fiction writers and translators, and reviews.
The journal is well-regarded and aims to create a forum for translators and researchers in specialised translation, to disseminate information, exchange ideas and to provide a dedicated publication outlet. Its issues are open access.
I came across a great resource packed with information about corporate and financial structures – The Puppet Masters – a report published by the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR), which is a partnership formed by the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to help end safe havens for proceeds of corruption and to facilitate more systematic and timely return of stolen assets.
Many readers will be familiar with what is generally considered to be a reference volume in English-speaking circles – Black’s Law Dictionary, edited by Bryan A. Garner. Last Friday, Thomson-Reuters announced the launch of the 10th Edition.
Today’s Monday smile is in the form of a book review. Regular readers will be familiar with Lowering the Bar, a great legal humor blog curated by Kevin Underhill.
Kevin has just published his first book – a collection of odd laws called The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance (And Other Real Laws that Human Beings Actually Dreamed Up, Enacted, and Have Sometimes Even Enforced. The publisher is the American Bar Association.
I think this may well be of interest to French speakers, especially those working on Canadian legal texts…
The innovative and dynamic RELINE legal linguistics network, that I have posted about before makes available a number of useful resources on its website. Today I’d like to bring your attention to some short videos presenting key books in the field.
Meno le persone sanno di come vengono fatte le salsicce e le leggi e meglio dormono la notte.
“The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep at night.”
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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