Pragmatic Issues in Legal Translation

A Conference on Pragmatic Issues in Legal Translation: From the Different Language Versions of the DCFR to the CESL Proposal will be held in Torino on 30 November–1 December 2012.

Updated materials and more information are available at www.cdct.it. Registration information is available at conferencetorinolt@gmail.com. The registration deadline is 26 November 2012.

The Conference is organized by the CDCT (Centro di Diritto Comparato e Transnazionale, Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law, www.cdct.it) and the Department of Law of the University of Torino. It is part of a research project titled “The Making of a New European Legal Culture. Prevalence of a single model, or cross-fertilization of national legal traditions?” coordinated by Michele Graziadei.

Key Topics:

- Legal translation and Comparative Law

- Vagueness in legal texts

- Legal definitions and equivalence in translation

- The translation of the Draft Common Frame of Reference

- The proposed Regulation on the Common European Sales Law