By David Bustamante Segovia As a professional translator, a law student in Latin America, and a legal English student in the U.S., I tend to see many errors that arise from literal translations between Spanish and English that do not take into account judicial structure differences, among other types of differences (e.g., view of the […]
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Highly civil law – the other approach to contract law
This material first appeared as a post on the author’s blog Tip of the Tongue, here. Published with permission from the author. By Stephen Rifkind Sometimes a person visits another family or country and discovers that an alternative way of doing something actually has many advantages. That was my feeling after an amazing two-hour webinar […]
My First In-Person ATA Annual Conference
This material first appeared as an article in SlavFile, the newsletter of the Slavic Languages Division, here. Published with permission from the SlavFile editor and the author. By Dmitry Beschetny I joined ATA a couple of months prior to the ATA62 annual conference. Not long before that, I came across a colleague’s article full of […]
Translation by Interpreters and Interpreting by Translators
This material first appeared as a post on the ATA Slavic Language Division (SLD) blog here. Published with permission from the SLD and the author. By Dmitry Beschetny There is an ongoing debate in the language industry whether translation and interpreting services can be rendered by the same person. Needless to say, while these two services […]
Has the World Turned Turtle?
Note: the below information is up-to-date as of September 28, 2020. As legal translators, it is our mission to keep abreast of important court decisions to better understand the materials we translate. This time, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “Court”) gave a preliminary ruling on July 16, 2020, in the field […]
