The French Government, along with the Académie française, regularly publishes updates on new terminology – for professionals using terminology and civil servants, as well as the general public. There are even publications in the offical gazette¹. Translations into English are often provided (unfortunately, mostly not into other languages), as well as alternative terms in other French-speaking countries such as Canada.
Le rapport 2021 de Commission d’enrichissement de la langue française vient de paraître. Ce rapport présente le bilan de l’action en faveur de l’enrichissement de la langue française, coordonnée par la Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France, pour l’année 2021. Continue reading
The proceedings of an excellent conference held on 11 and 12 May 2017 at the University of Toulouse (which this blogger actually attended!) are now available online. The conference approached translation from the point of view of comparative law and also embraced historical perspectives. 
The global law firm DLA Piper offers free of charge a Guide to Going Global series which reviews business-relevant corporate, employment, equity, intellectual property and technology, and tax laws in key jurisdictions around the world. 
Readers may be interested to know that a Study on the Rome II Regulation (EC) 864/2007 on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations has been published by the European Commission.
The Council of Language Access Coordinators Working Group at the National Center for State Courts in the USA offers step-by-step Guidelines for the Development of Legal Glossaries. 
Following on from yesterday’s post, you might be interested in Acronym Finder. I have found plenty of French, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish acronyms in it, and there may be other languages too.
The Transius Centre at the University of Geneva has just announced a multilingual resource developed by an international team led by Professor Annarita Felici.
A new special issue of the journal Target – International Journal of Translation Studies (33:2) guest-edited by Professor Fernando Prieto Ramos of the TRANSIUS Centre for Legal and Institutional Translation Studies at the University of Geneva has just been released. 
I’d like to bring the attention of Portuguese speakers to a podcast series that complements the book Mulheres e Justiça (see 
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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