The distinction between types of corporate ownership in Russian law requires English readers to overcome what would seem an odd...

Trânsito em julgado does not have a single, universally adopted English equivalent, but several translations are commonly used depending on...

Usucapio is a concept from Roman law by which a title or right to property is acquired through uninterrupted and...

The legal figure of Verein is widely used in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein...

The Spanish-language legal figure of amparo is usually left untranslated, due to its specificity. Might “constitutional challenge” be a good...

The translation of the Portuguese legal term dolo into English is notoriously complex, as dolo is used in both civil...

The Portuguese noun aval poses particular challenges to a legal translator, which revolve on its wide, context-dependent semantic drift: in...

Visto is another legal Portuguese term that makes translators break out in a cold sweat.

At the onset of the current century, a team of over 150 researchers co-ordinated by Barbara Cassin undertook the task...