Legally Yours from Spain

blog on legal translation and the Spanish legal system  

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...

Truce on bilingual dictionaries

It is often forgotten that dictionaries are artificial repositories, put together well after the languages they define. The roots of language are irrational and...

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...