Tradulínguas, based in Lisbon, Portugal, and organizers since 2005 of online training and webinars, as well as in-person translation workshops and conferences, are offering an e-learning course on civil law, in the language pair Portuguese-Russian.
Monday smiles – Facebook glasses filter reality
Today’s Monday smile comes from a satirical UK website called NewsBiscuit – The news before it happens… run by Net Loss Ltd and is a skit by Ludicity on some ‘avoidant reality’ glasses. Quite chilling really, though, when you think about it…
Terminology and networking event in Holten, Holland
Stridonium professional translators’ association (www.stridonium.com) is organizing a terminology and networking event for legal and financial translators (but others are welcome to attend) from 10 am to 4 pm on 17 June 2013 in Holten, Holland.
Reporting from London – Qualetra, Part 2
Here is the second part of my report from the recent Qualetra conference held in London (see here for part 1).
Guest post – Forensic linguistics: ‘anonymizing’ and challenging the authority of expert witnesses
A fascinating guest post today from Dr Tim Grant, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics at Aston University in the UK, and the Director of the Centre for Forensic Linguistics there. His main research interests are in forensic authorship analysis and in the conversations which occur between attackers and victims in cases of serious sexual assault and rape. He has publications in both of these areas in both psychology and linguistics journals. His consultancy has largely involved the analysis of abusive and threatening communications in many different contexts including investigations into sexual assaults, murder and terrorist offences. It has also included cases of copyright infringement and academic plagiarism.
Reporting from London – Qualetra, Part 1
Today I would like to offer you the first part of a report about a conference held on Thursday 4 April 2013, at London Metropolitan University in the UK to launch the European project QUALETRA – Quality in Legal Translation.
Legislationline
Legislationline, a free of charge online legislative database, was created in 2002 to assist Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) participating States in bringing their legislation into line with relevant international human rights standards.
Monday smiles – Reposed infants and uppermost regions of trees
Here is another in our series of ‘lessons in legalese’ from nursery rhymes…
Electronic tattoos
Following on from my post on big data last week, here is a slightly worrying short TEDTalk about our online activities, electronic ‘tattoos’ and privacy. In particular, I personally was amazed about the facial recognition technologies mentioned.
Law Day
While many of you may be celebrating May Day today, did you know that it was also Law Day?
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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