Margaret Marks: Weblog on German-English legal translation.
18. November 2011 —Two news items are currently angering translators and interpreters, including myself. 1. The Bundestag committee hearing at which the majority of experts believe that German judges and lawyers who have done an LL.M. in an English-speaking country are well capable of conducting hearings on German law…
5. November 2011 —I had forgotten that two days before the Bundestag committee hearing on introducing English as a language in the German courts, there is one on anchoring German in the constitution. Actually this is a meeting of the Petitionsausschuss. One of the experts invited to that is Anatol Stefanowitsch, a pr…
5. November 2011 —On November 9 the Bundestag law committee will be discussing the draft bill for an Act to introduce Chambers for International Commercial Matters (Gesetz zur Einführung von Kammern für internationale Handelssachen - KfiHG). On the Bundestag site you can find the text, list of the seven experts who h…
11. Juni 2007 — An article by Jan Keuchel in Handelsblatt, Frau Thiemes Gespür für Sprache, describes the role of Stephanie Thieme, a lawyer who has also studied German at university level, in making German statutes easier to understand (I see from her firm's website that she has also worked as a publisher'…
21. Juli 2005 —The German Federal Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, is on holiday, but he’s only gone to Hannover. Meanwhile, by Friday the Federal President has to announce whether or not he will permit the Bundestag to be dissolved, meaning there will be a...…
9. Oktober 2004 —Via jurabilis and Handakte WebLAWg: there is a new weblog (in German) by the apparently fictitious German member of the Bundestag Jakob Maria Mierscheid. Here’s his Bundestag entry. Here we see, for example, that in 1967/1968 he published a...…
