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...
SOS Spain: It’s the transition’s fault!
On top of the never-ending financial crisis, we now have a political crisis. The Bárcenas (ex-treasurer of the governing Partido Popular (PP)) and Ana...
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...
Code of good practices for banks in Spain to stem home repossessions
Last Friday (09/03), the Spanish government announced a code of good practices for the banking sector to stem the tide of home repossessions (which...
The Judiciary of Spain’s website in English
Well, some of it’s in English anyway: Poder Judicial España — Justice at your service And here’s a useful article written by a Spanish...
LegalSpainTerm is born!
I have just published the rationale behind LegalSpainTerm, which is basically just a collection of descriptions and definitions of Spanish legal terms with possible...
One express reform to the constitution to go please
The Spanish Parliament recently voted to reform the constitution to impose a deficit cap on public budgets and so adopt the “golden rule” that...
