Comparative Perspectives on Law and Language

Agustín Parise & Olivier Moréteau (Eds.), Comparative Perspectives on Law and Language, Maastricht Law Series, Eleven, 2022.

Law finds its roots in human experience and its expression in language. It cannot be administered, studied or taught without the instrumentality of language. The focus on language enlarges and deepens comparative studies. This volume features a wide array of comparative perspectives encompassing Law and Language, inviting readers to deepen their understanding of their many interactions, casting new lights that benefit jurists and linguists alike. It invites to interdisciplinary collaboration, focusing on the centrality of language in law making, solving legal problems and making sense of the law.

This volume displays a variety of approaches to Law and Language, moving from traditional to renewed doctrinal approaches, including case studies and empirical exercises. The chapters move across jurisdictions and time periods, from preconceived ideas to calls for change. This volume takes an innovative and interdisciplinary approach embracing a variety of prisms: translation studies, comparative law, legal history, jurilinguistics, and legal education, to name a few. It is an indispensable companion for anyone interested in these disciplines.

Contents

Law and Language: A Plea for Experts Sans frontières

Agustín Parise

A Twenty-First Century Approach to Law and Language in Europe 

Elena Ioriatti

Living Off Translations: The Survival of Civil Law in South Africa and Other

Mixed Jurisdictions 

Vernon Valentine Palmer

Research into Legal Translation: An Overview of the 2010s Trends from the

Perspective of Translation Studies 

Łucja Biel

Aux sources de la jurilinguistique canadienne: de la lettre à l’esprit du

droit – Crépuscule du terme, primat du texte 

Jean-Claude Gémar

Judgments’ Style: An Experience in Reading Civil and Common Law

Cases 

Silvia Ferreri

Two Centuries of Legal Translation in Louisiana: Developing and Promoting

the Civil Law English Terminology 

Olivier Moréteau

Building the Bridge from Both Sides: Successful Communication Strategies

in Legal Translation and Court Interpreting 

Carmen Bestué

The Protection of Regional and Minority Languages 

Gerard-René de Groot

Law, Language, and the 50 Years of the Netherlands Comparative Law

Association 

Ulli Jessurun d’Oliveira and Lars van Vliet

Fifty Years of Comparative Law in the Netherlands: The Importance of

Translation 

Ewoud Hondius

The Wave of Comparative Law 

Sjef van Erp