I’ ve been translating a text with a Schwurgericht in it. This is a term I haven’t had to deal with in English since I taught translation up to 2002. This is what I used to tell my students: Schwurgericht … Continue reading →

Suspect pleads not guilty in fatal beating trial write The Local, opening an interesting possibility in German criminal trials, where we wondered whether you were ever asked how you plead: The suspected ringleader of a vicious beating that left 20-year-old … Continue reading →

This was a great seminar on legal English and contract law given by Stuart Bugg, who is a NZ and English lawyer (he was born in Yorkshire, which I didn’t know) and run by the Regensburg section of the BDÜ. … Continue reading →

Mark Liberman at Language Log has once again, in two posts, discussed the use of corpora in US courts. I’ve previously mentioned how translators might use a corpus to analyse specialist vocabulary. We do something a bit like that every … Continue reading →

I had forgotten that two days before the Bundestag committee hearing on introducing English as a language in the German courts, there is one on anchoring German in the constitution. Actually this is a meeting of the Petitionsausschuss. One of … Continue reading →

On November 9 the Bundestag law committee will be discussing the draft bill for an Act to introduce Chambers for International Commercial Matters (Gesetz zur Einführung von Kammern für internationale Handelssachen – KfiHG). On the Bundestag site you can find … Continue reading →

I recently received a copy of an article from Neue Juristische Wochenschrift, Vertragssprache und Sprache des anwendbaren Rechts, by Rechtsanwalt Dr. Dr. h.c. Georg Maier-Reimer, the co-publisher. This was based on a talk given by the author at the Anwaltstag … Continue reading →

I know it’s Sunday, but I’d like to plug a law book. Before I came to Germany, when I was first encountering German law, I picked up two volumes of this at Wildy’s , 2nd edition, 1968 and 1971, for … Continue reading →