Resources

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LAW

American Bar Association

Harvard Law Review

American Business Law Journal

Glossary of Legal Terms | United States Courts

FINANCE

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

IMF Institute for Capacity Development

World Bank

LANGUAGES & TRANSLATION

Money Talks – Learning the Financial Jargon | The New Yorker

International Journal of Translation Babel | International Federation of Translators (FIT)

Articles on Translation and Interpreting | IAPTI

L’Argot et le traducteur/interprète judiciaire | ATA French Language Division

The Art of Translation | Vladimir Nabokov

BOOKS

Clear Understandings: A Guide to Legal Writing – Ronald Goldfarb, James Raymond

The Common Law – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Elements of Legal Style – Bryan Garner

Forensic Linguistics: An Introduction to Language in the Justice System – John Gibbons

The Jury Summation as Speech Genre – Bettyruth Walter

The Language of Judges – Lawrence Solan

The Language of the Law – David Mellinkoff

The Law of Contracts – John Perillo

Legal Drafting in Plain Language – Robert Dick

Legal Translation Explained – Enrique Alcaraz, Brian Hughes

Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text with Exercises – Bryan Garner

New Approach to Legal Translation – Susan Šarčević

Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings: A Corpus-based Interdisciplinary Perspective – G. Pontrandolfo

Plain English for Lawyers – Richard Wydick

Researching Language and the Law: Textual Features and Translation Issues – Giannoni, Davide Simone, C. Frade

A Treatise on the Law of Contracts – Samuel Williston

Babel No More – Michael Erard

Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond – Gideon Toury

The Entrepreneurial Linguist – Judy and Dagmar Jenner

Language Structure and Translation – Eugene Nida

Translation & Language: Linguistic Theories Explained – Peter Fawcett

BLOGS

Law Prose Blog | Bryan Garner 

Thoughts on Translation | Corinne McKay