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 […]
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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 […]
Notary Public vs. Civil-Law Notary Public
Resulta de especial interés hacer una distinción entre la figura del Notary Public de los países donde rige un sistema de derecho anglosajón o angloamericano y la del Escribano Público (o Notario) de los países con sistemas de derecho romano-germánico, como el de la Argentina, donde resido. Básicamente, existen dos sistemas de “notariado”: […]
Terms of Art: The Legal Translator’s Friends or Foes?
By Paula Arturo, Law Division Administrator Special thanks to Elizabeth Herron-Sweet, Law Division Assistant Administrator, for her edits and insights One of the greatest difficulties legal translators face is unfamiliarity with terms of art and how to solve the linguistic problems those terms necessarily cause. It takes quite a bit of subject-matter knowledge to distinguish […]
Horses for Courses: Legal – Financial Mutualism
Horses for Courses: Legal – Financial Mutualism We all know the stereotype that lawyers can struggle with numbers. Since I don’t trust stereotypes, I’ll start from the reality that lawyers or legal translators usually encounter financial terminology that calls for some extra research and effort. By the same token, translators specializing in finance may face […]