In this anthology renowned scholars working in the area of legal translation studies (LTS) focus on current issues and challenges in legal translation emerging from today's globalisation and internationalisation. Considering both theoretical and practical points of view the contributions present interdisciplinary approaches to legal translation dealing with legal systems in national, EU and international settings, and include civil law and common law as well as supranational and private international law. In addition to the historical evolution of legal systems and of legal translation the papers discuss specific features of legal language and challenges in legal translation, as well as new didactic strategies to deal with the future profiles of legal translators.

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Dr. Ingrid Simonnæs is professor emerita at NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Bergen/Norway). She is a practitioner-researcher particularly in the area of legal translation and more broadly in legal linguistics. Dr. Marita Kristiansen, former associate professor at NHH, is senior researcher in terminology and neology at NORCE, Norwegian Research Centre (Bergen/Norway). She also works as a freelance translator.