Can copyright law be made really interesting and understandable? The answer is a resounding yes, as I discovered at a (dynamic) academic conference presentation by Dinusha Mendis & Hayleigh Bosher from Bournemouth University.
Invitation to write a guest post
Hello everybody!
As you all know, I publish guest posts from time to time, so I’d like to remind you all that you are most welcome to submit your ideas. 🙂 My only criteria are that posts need to be within the scope of the blog – i.e. about translation and the law. Posts do *not* need to be in English, au contraire !
Monday smile – Translating English for Meetings (into English!)
A particularity of English, especially when spoken by Brits, is that people don’t necessarily mean what they say…
Open access journal – Brexit supplement
Following my post in April on the excellent open access online publication German Law Journal, I thought you might be interested in a special supplement on Brexit.
It includes contributions from international legal scholars from the London School of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, and law schools across the UK, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Holland and the USA.
Conference – Economic, Business, Financial and Institutional Translation, Quebec
The Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières is organizing the Second International Conference on Economic, Business, Financial and Institutional Translation (ICEBFIT), to be held from 17-18 August 2016.
Monday smile – Sun headlines can sometimes be (quite) good
With the media frenzy going on at present, it seemed apt to dig out a rather (unusually) good headline from the British newspaper The Sun, in the millenium year 2000, which reported on an attempted diamond robbery.
Conference – Promoting professionalism in a changing market, Malmö, Sweden
For the first time, a conference is being organized by eight language associations from four Scandinavian countries. The event is entitled SLAM!2016, to take place on Saturday 24 September 2016, and the theme is Promoting Professionalism in a Changing Market.
MOOC on International Law
The Université catholique de Louvain is offering a free 8-week introductory course in International Law through the MOOC platform edX.
Job opportunity – Lawyer-linguist, European Central Bank
The European Central Bank (ECB) is seeking to appoint a Lawyer-Linguist with English as his/her main language to work in its Legislation Division, which is part of the Directorate General Legal Services.
Training – Terminology for international trade, Toulouse, France
The French Syndicat national des traducteurs professionals (SFT) is organizing a one-day seminar on terminology for international trade in French, English and German, on 1 October 2016 in Toulouse, France.
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