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Judicial structure

Tricky Translations between most Latin American countries and the U.S.

November 1, 2023 By Law Division 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: LawD Expert Insights, LawD Member Contribution Tagged With: Civil law, Common law, Comparative law, Judicial structure, Legal Spanish, Legal terminology, Spanish, Spanish translation, Terminology

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