Langenscheidt ALPMANN Dictionary of Law Concise Edition/Langenscheidt ALPMANN Fachwörterbuch Kompakt Recht
am 03.02.2006 von 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 English as part of their course and who must be a large market. (Hence the dictionaries by Köbler and Cornelsen).
The dictionary has DE>EN and EN>DE in one volume, and it also has about 200 pages of introductory material and, at the end, three legal documents. All this extra material is in German and English. The front matter consists of introductions to English, US and German law, all written by Germans and then translated into English. The legal documents are Articles of Association of a German AG, a consultancy agreement between a German and an English company (Pillenstraße is written Pillenstrasse in both English and German, oddly) and a confidentiality letter under English law between an English and a US company. It isn’t clear which are intended to be the original documents and which the translations.
One can always find some niggle or other in such a dictionary, but I can imagine students would carry it around in their rucksacks or bags for reference during the day. It can be bought as a book or as a book plus CD-ROM.
I wouldn’t begin to comment on the dictionary itself, but I wonder why it was necessary to translate the introductions to law into English. The section on US law is co-written by a German and …
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