... legal harmonization comparative law Davidson D empiricism legal definitions philosophy of language common measure in comparative law tertium comparationis in comparative law legal translation studies Šarčević S Kötz H Zweigert K linguistic relativism Legrand P Frankenberg G concordance...

... law legal language originality adaptation comic effect poetic justice legal translation The relation between law and literature has played an important role in the study of Roman comedy at least since the late nineteenth century, when legal historians began to exploit the remains...

... Nino Carlos Santiago Radical model Aguilar Rivera José Antonio Alamán Lucas Cadiz Constitution Mexico Mixed constitutions Rabasa Emilio United States Constitution Prada Raúl Arriaga Ponciano Constitutional transplants constitutional grafts “dormant clauses” “legal translation” legal...

...In Chapter 2, the performance of legal translation is analysed, seen as a negotiation and informed, inter alia, by comparative law, genre theory and functionalism, from four perspectives: language/discourse; legal systems; genre; and textual purpose. These comprise...

...Chapter 3 tackles the manifold constraints on the outsourced legal translation process, including various types of norms. The author presents a practice-based model dividing these constraints into three categories—those applying upstream, during, and downstream of translation performance. Each...

... Celan P Babel Tower of Bultmann R Quine W Hylton P Iliad Dworkin R Beckett S foreign law language legal translation truth comparative law What can one do but speculate, speculate, until one hits on the happy speculation? —Beckett ¹ For the point at issue is merely the meaning...

...-century French legal literature: an English translation of Cours de droit civil français, a scholarly description of patrimony in French law written by Charles Aubry and Frédéric-Charles Rau. The discussion is based on three assumptions about legal translation as a means of giving voice...

... on the effectiveness of legal integration. The proposed approach to EU Translation challenges the predominant view in the contemporary legal literature that strongly advocates a receiver- oriented approach to both legal translation in general and EU Translation in particular. Receiver-o riented translation aims...

... a combination of overview articles, case studies, and theoretical descriptions, the volume addresses areas such as the history and structure of legal languages, multilingualism and language rights, courtroom discourse, forensic identification, intellectual property and linguistics, and legal translation...

...One of the most difficult aspects of legal translation is the issue of terminology. This chapter outlines some of the key terminological issues relevant for the translation of arbitration laws and procedures. It argues for a conceptual approach to terminology in legal translation which relies...

...” of language coverage. institutional translation law Court of Justice of the European Union CJEU European Union European Union legal translation International Court of Justice ICJ international courts LETRINT project United Nations World Trade Organization WTO Cao D legal translation Šarčević S...

... translation Goffin R institutional translation legal translation otherness European Union Maastricht Treaty of 1992 North Atlantic Treaty Organization political discourse Treaty of Lisbon 2009 war World War II language multilingualism Directorate General for Translation DGT Koskinen K law...

... fluency intelligibility translation EU legal language foreignization Schleiermacher F D E Gadamer H G Heidegger M literary or general translation studies familiarization Language diversity legal integration European Union multilingualism legal translation legal interpretation legal language...

... and the dynamic interpretation style (that have turned international adjudicators into writers rather than readers of the law), globalization has also affected the practice of legal interpretation in other ways. Acting across a multiplicity of languages and legal traditions, comparative law, legal translation...

...This article explores dimensions of legal translation theory. It examines the rationale for legal translation, explores the definitional scope and linguistic properties of legal texts and analyses the underlying doctrinal approaches to legal translation (the ‘stretch and snap’ theme). The purpose...

...Focusing on the link between law, language, and culture, J. B. White notes that legal translation is a ‘necessarily imperfect process’. This article focuses on challenges to legal translators caused by the inherent incongruity of legal systems, cultures, and languages. It attempts to ‘demystify...

...The Introduction sets the scene for legal translation and its outsourcing in a globalized context, and, to show how the project described is positioned in the discipline, reviews developments in ‘Legal Translation Studies’ in recent decades, including its flourishing interdisciplinarity. Key...

...Chapter 1 situates outsourced legal translation in its environment, examining the specific features of the market, and introduces corporate agency theory as a lens through which to research the commissioning and performance of legal translation from and by external practitioners, enriched...