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Things Legal Translators Need to Know: What’s in the Código Civil? (Part 1)

December 5, 2023 By Law Division Leave a Comment

Part I—Derecho de la persona and Derecho de familia By Rebecca Jowers I’m a firm believer that legal translators and interpreters need to learn loads of law to be able to do our jobs properly. And if we have a firm grasp of the core concepts and terminology of the Civil Code, that’s half the […]

Filed Under: LawD Expert Insights, LawD Member Contribution Tagged With: Civil Code, Civil law, Family Law, Law of Persons, Legal terminology, Legal Translation, legal translators, Spanish Civil Code

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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