Books on legal English - particular/ Bücher über die englische Rechtssprache - Details
am 10.04.2007 von Transblawg
Dictionaries
If you want a monolingual dictionary of U.S. law, the only Blacks Law Dictionary worth getting is the big one. Don't get an abridged Blacks. But you don’t have to get Blacks: Gifis (also known as Barrons) and Merriam-Webster are both excellent. I have a feeling Merriam-Webster is on the Web somewhere. There are at least two sizes of Gifis: get the largest. Both Gifis and Merriam-Webster date from the late 1990s - you could check the publisher to see if a new edition is due, although it doesn’t matter, as the latest information can be found on the Internet.
If you want one for the UK, or more likely just for England and Wales, Curzon, or Mozley and Whitely, or Osborn, or the Oxford Dictionary of Law (the latter has fewer and longer entries) are all OK.
Legal terminology
On legal terminology in general, there are some promising books around that I don't know - three U.S. ones entitled Legal Terminology, by Gordon Brown, S. Whittington Brown and Cathy Okrent. Some Internet research will produce extracts to look at, either at amazon.com or on the publisher's website.
Garner's Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage is a great book, but not of much interest to most people. Don't buy it without looking at it.
A curiosity that no-one I know likes but that has some good material in it is Pons Fachwörterbuch Recht (based on a Peter Collin English dictionary). The main body is an English-for-foreigners English law dictionary, which Klett Verlag has spruced up with …
Books on legal English - general/ Bücher über die englische Rechtssprache - allgemein
Transblawg / I wrote a whole screen on how you should choose a book as carefully as you choose your toothpaste, but I suspect people want concrete advice. That follows in a later entry. Here's the general waffle: Books to learn legal English /Bücher zu…
Books on legal English footnote/Bücher über Rechtsenglisch Nachtrag
Transblawg / Of course I remembered more books. I will use this current entry for anything else that occurs to me, so come and check it again in future. First, there are books on legal English by Peter Tiersma. The one I know is called Legal Language. It's a…
English law and legal language / Buch
Transblawg / Francis Henry, Kevin Pike: English law and legal language: Introduction. Eine Einführung in das englische Rechtssystem und die englische Rechtssprache. Sprachenzentrum der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, EUR 15. ISBN…
Comparative Legal Linguistics / Buch
Transblawg / Professor Heikki E.S. Mattila of the University of Lapland has published a book on comparative legal linguistics that looks interesting and expensive. The amazon.com page lets you look inside and see the full table of contents and an extract. The pub…
Langenscheidt ALPMANN Dictionary of Law Concise Edition/Langenscheidt ALPMANN Fachwörterbuch Kompakt Recht
Transblawg / I’m not sure why this dictionary, which appeared in December, is called the ‘concise edition’ in English, as it’s the only edition. It is intended not for translators, but in particular for German law students who have legal E…
Dictionary of Austrian legal terminology/Wörterbuch der österreichischen Rechtsterminologie
Transblawg / Heidemarie Markhardt, who has been mentioned here before, has just published a dictionary of Austrian legal, economics and administrative terminology: Heidemarie Markhardt, Wörterbuch der österreichischen Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Verwaltu…
Small DE - EN law dictionaries / Kleine Rechtswörterbücher DE - EN
Transblawg / There are a number of small bidirectional German-English law dictionaries on the market. (Click on links to amazon.de below) A commenter asked recently whether one would be useful for someone studying translation with law as their main subject.…
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Transblawg / There are a number of small bidirectional German-English law dictionaries on the market. (Click on links to amazon.de below) A commenter asked recently whether one would be useful for someone studying translation with law as their main subject.…
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