Category: Legal Spain

Legal news from Spain and the Spanish legal system in general from a legal translator’s perspective

Book Review: The Civil Law Tradition

The Civil Law Tradition by John Henry Merryman and Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo is excellent background reading for translators in any language combination crossing the civil–common law...

What’s an escrache?

An escrache is what you do when politicians aren’t listening to your pressure group—not even to your rallies, proposals for acts of parliament and...

Hammered into austerity

Now it’s getting depressing. Every day, it seems, the Spanish government announces new austerity measures that promise to reduce our standard of living or...

Budget or democratic deficit?

That lame third promise What most surprised me about Spain’s last general elections was one of the three promises that the PSOE candidate for...