Regulated professions EU/Regulierte Berufe EU
am 01.03.2005 von TransblawgThere is terminology of professions and occupations regulated in the EU at this address. The terms are also translated (between French, German and English). The list appears to …
German court names translated / Deutsche Gerichtsbezeichnungen in Fremdsprachen
Transblawg / The German Auswärtiges Amt long since published a list of German court names and their translations into English, French and Spanish. I see this list has now been augmented to contain Russian, Bulgarian, Italian, Polish, Macedonian, Croatian an…
Legal language in Europe
Transblawg / A more coherent European wide [sic] legal language, by Viola Heutger, of the University of Utrecht, is an online paper (PDF or html) I found through DORES, whose latest set of new publications relating to language and law has just appeared. It doesn&…
The regulation of offences / Rechtsenglisch
Transblawg / The word regeln is used a lot in German legal texts. I’ve always been irritated to see it translated as regulate. I recently received a query quoting a question ‘Is theft regulated by the common law in England and Wales?’ This is…
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…
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...…
English as lingua franca in Switzerland / Englisch in der Schweiz
Transblawg / swissinfo says: L’anglais a de bonnes chances de devenir LA langue de compréhension dans ce pays multilingue qu’est la Suisse, selon Urs Dürmüller, linguiste du séminaire d’anglais de l’Universit&eacut…
Diploma / M.A. in legal translation, City University London
Transblawg / City University has recently announced, apparently, that its diploma / M.A. course on legal translation is not starting till autumn 2008. Meanwhile, there are a number of modules that can be taken separately as CPD (The ITI has recently been encourag…
i.V., i.A., ppa.
Transblawg / The German abbreviations i.V., i.A. and ppa. often cause translators problems. There is no real English equivalent. But even if the terms can’t be translated without a footnote, and a footnote would be overkill, still, the translator may someti…
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