Abstract

"Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on these fields of interest, be they focused on one country or comparative, theoretical or methodological in nature.

Highlights

  • The work of legal practitioners, as weil as that of national legislators and civil servants, has become increasingly enmeshed in transnational contexts: contracts or company do­ cuments drawn up in foreign languages, foreign municipal or international law to be con­ sidered in drafting national legislation, or official translation of foreign-Ianguage instru­ ments - they all confront lawyers with the frequent necessity to apprehend the substance of foreign legal terminology

  • It is not c1ear, by what standards the headwords from the legal terminologies of the other four languages besides English have been selected

  • Seem more promising in the compilation of genuinely plurilingual dictionaries; increased in­ c1usion in such works of the established multilingual terminologies of the European Communities or Canada might prove of considerable benefit

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It is not c1ear, by what standards the headwords from the legal terminologies of the other four languages besides English have been selected.

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