The Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law is holding the 8th Summer Institute of Jurilinguistics, organized in collaboration with the other members of the Network of Jurilinguistic Centres, on July 11, 2014 at the Faculty of Law of McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Guest post – Summary of European Lawyers Rome Event 2014
Today I am very grateful to Lorena Elena Stanescu for kindly agreeing to give us a flavour of what went on at the European Lawyers Rome Event 2014, held in May.
Lorena is a Romanian lawyer and specializes in contractual issues relating to incoming foreign investment and the energy sector. She is also researching a PhD in Comparative Private Law, analyzing the legal traditions of France, Germany and Sweden. Lorena has a great interest in languages and, as well as her native language, speaks English, French, German, and Italian.
Job opportunity – Lawyer-linguists, CJEU
The Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg is currently looking for lawyer-linguists with Danish, Finnish, Slovak, Slovenian or Swedish as their main language.
Obligations & Challenges for French Language Services and Access to Justice, Ontario
I have just found out that tomorrow, June 4, 2014 from 12 – 2 pm, the Ontario Bar Association is organizing an event entitled “The Obligations and Challenges for French Language Services and Access to Justice,” to be held in Toronto, Canada.
Monday smiles – Legal barriers and melodic hurdles
Today’s Monday smile is a bit different. It’s all about music, which I think makes most of us smile. It’s also a guest post – by Liam Curley (@smokecroakliam) who, together with two friends, runs Smoke & Croak, a boutique multilingual digital marketing service bursting with innovative ideas. So, over to you Liam…
Guest post – Reporting from Cambridge
Following my post announcing the conference Communicating in Business, today, for all those who, like myself, didn’t manage to attend, we have a report summarizing the event from Christina Guy, the organizer. The piece was first published in International Trade Magazine.
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Traineeships – European Parliament
The European Parliament offers several options for traineeships, to provide opportunities for vocational training and for learning more about what the Parliament is and does.
As well as general traineeships, there is also a scheme of translation traineeships for university graduates.
Webinar – Interpreting […], a quality business
The International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters (IAPTI) is offering a webinar this Friday May 30, 2014 at 5 p.m. UTC, entitled “Interpreting: An essential profession and a business… a quality business. Underlining the benefits of a good service”
The webinar will be presented by Tony Rosado, and you may remember him from his guest posts When we are asked to translate useless materials; The ten worst things a judge can do to a court interpreter; and Taniguchi case outcome – A good or a bad thing for justice?
Monday smiles – Criminal bar-speak (French)
Hello dear readers, and my apologies for last week being quiet on the posting front due to a couple of busy trips.
I came across a great Twitter feed for the French-speakers out there…
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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