Code by Lawyers for Lawyers
am 19.09.2006 von http://www.recht.us/amlaw
CK - Washington. Not so fast--the German civil code may be available in a new, government-sponsored English translation but dont rely on it unless you are trained in that aspect of German law.
Thats the warning renowned lawyer-translator Margaret Marks of Transblawg offers on September 17, 2006. In that context, she publishes from the introduction to a comparative analysis of laws an excellent overview, in German and English, of the logical structure of the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch.
The lack of such structure, in particular the factoring out of the general part, Allgemeiner Teil,--similar to structural elements in …
German Civil Code in English / BGB auf Englisch online
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Follow this Link to the Website of the Bundesjustizministerium; for further sources and of German Law in German and English language see this Link-Collection at Simons Blawg. Via Margaret Marks - there you will find also more information about the b…
German Corporate Law Brief
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. A recommendation from Margaret Marks, author of TransBlawg: 87 pages PDF on German Corporate and Financial Law, in English, at Prof. Noacks blogsite. If Margaret calls it excellent, we can endorse it before having reviewed it. Trans…
Translation of Code Withdrawn
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / EE - Washington. After posting the German Civil Code in English on September 6, the Department of Justice in Berlin has withdrawn the translation from their website. A notification on the departments website cites flaws in the translation as …
German Criminal Code translation/Englische Übersetzung des StGB
Transblawg / Wildy announce a forthcoming new translation of the German Criminal Code (Strafgesetzbuch) by Professor Michael Bohlander of Durham University. He also intends to publish a book on German criminal law this year. I think Ill wait to see the lat…
Key German Statute in English
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. As of September 6, 2006, the German Civil Code, Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch is available in a government-sponsored English translation at www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb. A press release from the Berlin Attorney Gener…
German Civil Code translation into English/BGB ins Englische übersetzt
Transblawg / LAWgical reports that the German Civil Code is being translated into English, to appear online. All 5 books are to be translated into British English by autumn 2005 and appear online as part of the German Federal Ministry of Justice’s...…
Abbreviations of German statutes/Gesetzesabkürzungen
Transblawg / Citing German legislation: BGB DE: (all references) BGB EN: (first reference) Civil Code [or German Civil Code] (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch - BGB) (second reference): either BGB or Civil Code (Some books on comparative law use the abbreviation CC f…
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…
German Civil Code in English/BGB auf Englisch online
Transblawg / The Bundesjustizministerium has put an English translation of the German Civil Code online. It was done by Langenscheidt Übersetzungsservice. The same provisos apply as in the last entry with reference to translations of the Criminal Code! I w…
Bar Admission in Germany
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Germany has very few lawyers compared to the Washington, DC, ratio. The requirements, procedures and costs of the admission of domestic lawyers to the German bar is the topic of a helpful guide at beck-aktuell, a website opera…
German is the language of the courts/Gerichtssprache Deutsch
Transblawg / Bonn Blawg reports: I just finished drafting the claim before it was statute-barred. Since claimant is a foreign entity in an English-speaking country, the the defendant (and its Denglish lawyers) prefer to use English, I attached the exhibits in En…
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