The World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva makes available a Patent Cooperation Treaty Glossary.
WIPO recommends it as “a useful tool for Offices and applicants in understanding the PCT and drafting or translating PCT documentation”. The glossary is available in French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and English – you change languages using the roll-down menu at top right of the website. Continue reading
Although the online ‘journal’ Lexology was included in my recent compendium, I thought it was worth doing an individual post to emphasize its usefulness to you.
Lexology delivers a very comprehensive source of international legal updates, analysis and insights. It publishes in excess of 450 articles every day from over 900 leading law firms and service providers worldwide across 50 work areas in 25 languages. There are also regular webinars. Continue reading
A round-up today of the latest words to enter national dictionaries. We’ve had quite an influx of new words in recent months, for obvious reasons, and I’ve been stuck translating them on more than one occasion. So I hope this post will be helpful to you. 🙂
SOULL – Sources of Language and Law is an open online platform to provide selected information about past and recent research activities of legal linguistics.
It contains, among other things:
The platform cooperates with the Heidelberg Group of Legal Linguistics and the International Language and Law Association (ILLA). Continue reading
A useful glossary of financial market terms is made available by the website of the Italian stock exchange – Borsa Italiana.
The list includes definitions, examples, synonyms, & related terms and can be browsed or searched. Continue reading
The Bodleian Law Library at the University of Oxford makes available, collected together and without a university login, guides to resources from many jurisdictions. These include:
The Mendik Library, within New York Law School, brings together a list of resources for free or low cost legal research. The focus is on the American legal system, but the materials could be useful to many legal translators.
As NYLS says, the resources are also a great way to get started with research if you don’t have access to paid databases or if you want to get an overview of a topic before using potentially expensive searches. Continue reading
In the same vein as Thursday’s post on guides to property and related law, you might be interested in a resource offered by the accounting and professional services firm PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited).
The Worldwide Tax Summaries series used to be published annually in PDF format, but this ceased in 2018/2019. The older guides may, however, be useful if you are translating a non-current document. Continue reading
The law firm DLA Piper offer the free resource Realworld law, a guide providing local knowledge about how the law works in various jurisdictions from Angola to Zimbabwe.
It covers commercial leases, construction, corporate vehicles, planning/zoning, real estate finance, sale and purchase, and taxes. Continue reading
Jurisource.ca is a mine of information on the Canadian bilingual legal system.
It contains, amongst other things:
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