The most recent edition of the University of Malaga’s TRANS journal (http://www.trans.uma.es) explores the current state of play of interpreting in legal settings in Europe.Continue Reading..
Back in June 2015 I attended the Transius Conference on legal and institutional translation hosted by the University of Geneva.
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be summarising some of the main points made by speakers based on notes taken at the conference. The idea is to convey a rough flavour of the main ideas presented at the conference. This is the second blogpost in the series…Continue Reading..
While certainly not an infallible aid in the process of legal translation, glossaries -especially monolingual ones- can be useful in understanding the legal terms as used in the source text, which can make translation of the legal text into the target language easier and more accurate.
A colleague recently drew my attention to this monolingual English glossary of basic legal terms from the Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario / Canada). The glossary can be accessed at:
http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/glossary
Because Canada is bilingual, a monolingual French version is also available at:
http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/french/glossary/
Back in June 2015 I attended the Transius Conference on legal and institutional translation hosted by the University of Geneva.
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be summarising some of the main points made by speakers based on notes taken at the conference. The idea is to convey a rough flavour of the main ideas presented at the conference.
Let’s start with a keynote speech given by Professor Jan Engberg entitled: Comparative law and legal translation: Adjusting partners to build the necessary knowledge Continue Reading..
Α conference on legal translation, the teaching of legal translation, and legal interpreting and how this can guarantee equality under the law has recently been announced. The conference will take place in Tampere, Finland in May 2016. See the initial announcement about the conference below.Continue Reading..
In legal translations, the legal translator needs to be able to correctly employ deontic modality because the verb ‘shall’ and other modal verbs are frequently found in legal documents in English. This short paper examines some more aspects of the verb ‘shall’.
https://www.academia.edu/1630620/The_Special_Use_of_Shall_in_Legal_Texts
The verb ‘shall’ and other modal verbs are frequently found in legal documents in English. In legal translations, the legal translator needs to be able to correctly employ deontic modality. Read this interesting paper on the functions of modal verbs in European and British Legal Documents.Continue Reading..
Below is an interesting article written by Mata Salogianni, examining some aspects of legal translation in the Greek-English combination.Continue Reading..
An interesting overview of how English developed into the complicated language it is today can be found at:
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/3/8053521/25-maps-that-explain-english.
Maps 4 and 5 are particularly interesting and explain the origins of key legal words like law, judge and justice.
This book review of “Legal Translation and the Dictionary” is taken from academia.edu. Although referring to Czech legal translation it raises many interesting issues for legal translation in general
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