Today I want to share with you GlobaLex – an open-access electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. Although it is published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law in the United States, the country guides are drafted by local experts.
Category Archives: Resources
Anti-money laundering – global resource
For anyone working on financial / banking texts – this might be of interest. PricewaterhouseCoopers make available a 583-page publication entitled “Know Your Customer: Quick Reference Guide“.
The 2015 version contains information on 86 countries.
Legal style guide
The legal team at Adobe has developed The Adobe Legal Department Style Guide, which is made available free of charge under a Creative Commons license.
Finnish Government termbank
VALTER is a multilingual termbank containing glossaries compiled by the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office and other Government agencies. Languages include, depending on the glossary, Finnish, Swedish, English, Russian, French, German, Sami, Estonian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish…
WIPO Pearl updated
The World Intellectual Property Organization’s WIPO Pearl terminology database was updated two months ago with 5,000 new terms, 500 new concepts, and 1,000 new concept relations.
The database now contains over 105,000 terms in 10 languages, and 16,000 concepts, all entered and validated by WIPO language experts (translators and terminologists).
Feminising job titles
The French Government has just published a Guide pratique pour une communication publique sans stéréotype de sexe. It has been produced by the Haut conseil à l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes (HCEfh).
The 36-page guide gives a summary of relevant European and national legislation and guidelines on the subject, briefly addresses arguments against the feminisation of terms, and then shows how to apply the guidelines, together with further references. There are also a number of “right & wrong” examples.
A useful grammar key, “exemples de féminins et masculins selon les terminaisons“, ends the publication.
United Nations termbase beta
UNTERM provides terminology and nomenclature in subjects relevant to the work of the United Nations. Information is provided in the six UN official languages (English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic), and there are also entries in German and Portuguese.
EU translation memories – 2015 release
As a reminder, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation and the Joint Research Centre make freely available translation memories which include the European Union’s legislative documents (Acquis Communautaire) in 24 EU languages.
More links to international law – cases & reports
Following on from yesterday’s post which includes lists of Supreme Courts and international courts, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge offers a list of websites on which international courts, tribunals and organisations post decisions and reports.
Links to Supreme Courts & other international courts all around the world
The French Court of Cassation makes available on its website links to Supreme Courts all over the world.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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