Sometimes a dictionary just isn’t enough.

Thanks to Steve Tomlin for this one. He took it somewhere in Germany (Google reveals a reference to the same error on a bin at Saarbrücken Zoo).

Via Isabella Massardo (Taccuino di traduzione), an article about court interpreters in the U.S. state of Georgia, in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The article gives a general survey of the numbers of interpreters required and how they are used.

bq. In one recent case, a victim robbed by three juveniles required a Spanish translator. While the victim testified about how she identified one assailant, the translator mixed up the gender of a crucial word. The interpreter asked her how many people she was shown in a lineup, rather than how many males she was shown, explained Marina Navia, a victims’ advocate with the Fulton County district attorney. The resulting confusion contributed to the case’s dismissal.

On this subject, see also the website of NAJIT, The National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators.

Via Isabella Massardo (Taccuino di traduzione), an article about court interpreters in the U.S. state of Georgia, in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The article gives a general survey of the numbers of interpreters required and how they are used.

bq. In one recent case, a victim robbed by three juveniles required a Spanish translator. While the victim testified about how she identified one assailant, the translator mixed up the gender of a crucial word. The interpreter asked her how many people she was shown in a lineup, rather than how many males she was shown, explained Marina Navia, a victims’ advocate with the Fulton County district attorney. The resulting confusion contributed to the case’s dismissal.

On this subject, see also the website of NAJIT, The National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators.

I misread Herr Langenhan’s comment under my first Austrian entry. The Cornell law site I know is www.law.cornell.edu, which is a very useful site. (Although today it keeps blocking out a square of my screen where its menu goes). It has no hits for Austria.

However, Herr Langenhan actually mentioned www.lawschool.cornell.edu, which I didn’t know till then. It gives 23 hits for Austria, but not all of them are relevant – some only mention Austria but are related to Russia, for instance, and others are about LL.M.s.

The first is this where to start page. There is a research guide, with references to printed materials. In addition, Charlotte Bynum’s Foreign Law Guide leads to links to Cornell library. Although I found nothing very useful for Austria, there are some materials from the library that can actually be seen – it isn’t just a bibliography.

There is also a link to the Bundeskanzleramt site, which I quoted at some length in my first Austrian entry. There is also a link to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in Russell Square in London. This had passed through my mind too. The material is just a detailed bibliography (one can be found for Germany too), but it is informative.

I misread Herr Langenhan’s comment under my first Austrian entry. The Cornell law site I know is www.law.cornell.edu, which is a very useful site. (Although today it keeps blocking out a square of my screen where its menu goes). It has no hits for Austria.

However, Herr Langenhan actually mentioned www.lawschool.cornell.edu, which I didn’t know till then. It gives 23 hits for Austria, but not all of them are relevant – some only mention Austria but are related to Russia, for instance, and others are about LL.M.s.

The first is this where to start page. There is a research guide, with references to printed materials. In addition, Charlotte Bynum’s Foreign Law Guide leads to links to Cornell library. Although I found nothing very useful for Austria, there are some materials from the library that can actually be seen – it isn’t just a bibliography.

There is also a link to the Bundeskanzleramt site, which I quoted at some length in my first Austrian entry. There is also a link to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in Russell Square in London. This had passed through my mind too. The material is just a detailed bibliography (one can be found for Germany too), but it is informative.

I have already mentioned the German Law Journal. Now Blawg.org cites a German-American Law Journal Blawg (link doesn’t seem to work). This has also been picked up by Denise Howell at Bag & Baggage, in an entry listing a number of new blogs.

I don’t know whether to believe this, so I’ve written to the German Law Journal to ask.