From time to time one comes into contact with the highly technical world of watches. The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva, Switzerland, makes available what seems to be an authoritative and detailed glossary of watchmaking terms.
Monday smiles – Data in the cloud(s)
Cloud computing is more and more relevant for both lawyers and translators. Some know more about it than others…
Translations of Swiss legislation
The Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation make available translations of legislation online.
Famous trials
The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law has put together the most wonderful resource – a website including materials from a whole host of famous trials.
The trials go from Socrates and Galileo through to Clinton and O.J. Simpson, via Oscar Wilde and Al Capone to name but a few.
Call for papers – Legal phraseology
A special Issue of FACHSPRACHE, on Legal Phraseology and Specialised Meanings in Multilingual Settings is being prepared. The guest editors are Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski (University of Łódź) and Gianluca Pontrandolfo (University of Trieste).
FACHSPRACHE – International Journal of Specialized Communication is a refereed international journal that publishes original articles on all aspects of specialized communication and provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and teachers interested in this field.
Monday smile – Un fauteuil pour deux
Roulant au milieu du désert américain, une femme se fait arrêter par la police puisqu’il est interdit d’y rouler seul.
Lors de son procès, celle-ci s’est défendue sous prétexte qu’elle n’était pas seule puisqu’elle était enceinte. Ceci l’acquitta !
Registration open for forensic linguistics summer school
The fourteenth edition of the International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis is to be held at Aston University, Birmingham, UK, from 14-18 July 2014. There will be two tracks – introductory and advanced. Registration is now open.
Conference – Economic, Business, Financial and Institutional Translation, Alicante, Spain
A reminder that The University of Alicante in Spain is holding an International Conference of Economic, Business, Financial and Institutional Translation from 29 to 31 May 2014 (I published details of the call for papers here).
Glossary for greenhouse gas inventories
I happened upon these glossaries the other day, as you do, whilst working on a translation project, and thought they might be worth sharing with you.
They were issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
Monday smile – ET phone your lawyer
Enjoy your week!
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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