Legally Yours from Spain

blog on legal translation and the Spanish legal system  

Legal and menu translation

Legal translation is a lot like translating restaurant menus. Firstly, both types of translation are full of culture-specific or non-equivalent terms, i.e., terms that...

Posts also in Spanish

In case anyone’s interested, I’ve also started publishing posts in Spanish. The focus is slightly different, although I may translate them to English and...

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...