In the UK, Members of Parliament and Peers have made an official plea to protect language skills and language-related rights in the Brexit negotiations.
An All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages has produced “Brexit and Languages: A checklist for Government negotiators and officials“, which highlights four essential language-specific objectives of the Brexit process.
The European Association for Terminology (EAFT), in collaboration with TermCoord, the Terminology Coordination Unit of the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission, is organizing the Eighth European Terminology Summit in Luxembourg on 14–15 November 2016.
Just to show us that efforts to reduce jargon and wordiness are not a recent phenomenon…
The 10th international conference in the series “Days of Linguistic Rights” will be held in Teramo-Giulianova, Italy, from 14-16 December 2016, entitled Evaluating language policies: Which objectives, criteria, indicators?
The Registry of the European Court of Human Rights is seeking a translator under a fixed-term contract to work in Strasbourg, France.
Le Prix du Cercle Montesquieu 2015 a été décerné à l’ouvrage Le procès civil en version originale, paru aux éditions LexisNexis, avec la la particularité d’être le premier e-book qui présente la culture juridique à travers le procès civil dans trois pays, la France, les Etats-Unis et la Chine.
… or in other words “From the Venetian Renaissance to the winky-eye emoticon”. 😉
This post was inspired by the estimable Jonathan Goldberg, who has practiced as an attorney in two languages, taught legal English at a law faculty, and has wide experience in interpreting at depositions in locations across California as well as in court.¹
He suggested that I write a guest post in French for his blog le-mot-juste-en-anglais.com, to spread the word about the #W2D2017 conference, which will take place at Gray’s Inn.
And then I thought – why not publish the history of the venue here too?! So here it is…
PricewaterhouseCoopers, now known as PwC, is seeking an experienced French-to-English translator to join the PwC Language Services team as a Manager, in Paris, France.
PwC Language Services is a dynamic team of professional translators operating in an international community of auditors, advisors, lawyers and consultants. It translates and edits documents for publication in a wide variety of disciplines, including finance & accounting, tax & legal and corporate communications. Covering language needs in sectors as far ranging as retail, energy and banking, services are primarily geared towards corporate clients.
Le Syndicat national des traducteurs professionals (SFT) propose une téléformation : “Les ressources documentaires de l’Union européenne pour traducteurs”, qui aura lieu le 16 novembre 2016.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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