Two Legal Terms to Watch Out For
Two legal terms that are often mistranslated into the Romance languages are "comparative law" and "derivative work." Comparative law is...
Hidden Meanings in Legal English
Perhaps no area of translation is trickier than legal translation, not only because of the vast differences between the common law system...
Legal Latin
Some of the Latin terms commonly used in the civil law system but not in the common law system include: a contrario sensu a quo ab...
10 Ways to Improve Your Legal Translations
1. Read all that you can about the differences between the U.S. legal system and the civil law tradition. Two useful introductions: John...
