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The Concept of Legal Language: What Makes Legal Language ‘Legal‘?
Many legal theorists and linguists have addressed the notion of legal language from different perspectives. Despite that, the definitions of legal...
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Issues in Translating, Interpreting and Teaching Legal Languages and Legal Communication
This essay opens the Special Issue of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law entitled “Legal Languages and Legal Communication” devoted...
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The Possibility of a Uniform Legal Language at the Interplay of Legal Discourse, Semiotics and Blockchain Networks
This paper explores the possibility of a standard legal language (e.g. English) for a principled evolution of law in line with technological...
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Legal Concepts as Social Representations
The nature of concepts is a subject of study of various disciplines, from philosophy to cognitive sciences, leading to fragmented understandings and...
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The Cross-Border Change of Legal form as an Alternative to Transnational Mergers? A Comparative Study
In the area of business law and enterprises, the internationalization of business activities and the transnational choice of legal form is playing an...
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Divine Darkness and Legal Darkness: Apophasis, Cataphasis and the Making of Legal Cultures of the First Millennium
The article explores the long lost synthesis between apophatic and cataphatic theological strategies and early legal systematizations which shaped...
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Women’s Development in China’s Legal Profession Under Gender Stereotypes
In recent years, more and more Chinese women have joined the legal profession and have made remarkable achievements in this field. Gender...
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“So Lonely”: Comparative Law and the Quest for Interdisciplinary Legal Education
For various reasons, that will be recalled and analysed throughout this paper, interdisciplinarity has become the keyword for any debate on legal...
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Legal Foundations and Social Responsibility of Freedom of Speech in Kazakhstan
Despite the fact that in recent years there has been an active trend of growth of freedom of expression in Kazakhstan, domestic legislative and...
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Legal Pluralism
The focuUnited Stateslegal pluralisms of this chapter is legal pluralismIndigenous lawlegal pluralism—that is the existence of more than one legal...
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Advancing Gender Neutrality: The Evolution of Feminized and Neutral Legal Terminology
The paper delves into the evolution of language in French and English, focusing on the feminization and neutralization of job titles in legal and...
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Legislative Basics of Legal Interpretation
The main purpose of legal interpretation is to create conditions for the effective functioning of law and its components by clarifying their true...
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“We are together, but each of us separately.” Friendship as a close legal relationship
Friendship is undoubtedly perceived by individuals as a close relationship—based on a special bond and commitment. However, it is a relationship that...
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Resisting Legal Convergence
In 1996, Pierre Legrand wrote an article hypothesising that European legal systems are not converging based factors that create difficulties in...
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Risk Sharing in the Euro Area Legal Aspects
The book offers a horizontal legal analysis on the problematic of risk sharing, which arises inevitably in an economic and political integration...
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Review Article of Hospitality Law: Managing Legal Issues in the Hospitality Industry (Wiley 2017)
In 2017, Barth and Barber released the third edition of their textbook “Hospitality Law: Managing Legal Issues in the Hospitality Industry.” This...
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What Legislation Is (Not): Comparing Legislation And Legal Rulings
We may sharpen our understanding of legislation by juxtaposing it with other types of legal act. John Gardner attempts to differentiate legislation...
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Methodological Legal Positivism
This Chapter argues that within legal doctrine, scientia iuris’ constructivist dynamics reached their apex with the methodological (or scientific)...
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Quality Assurance of Regulatory Legal Acts in State Language (in the Civil and Civil Procedure Legislation)
Different countries worldwide have issues with adapting legal terminology in a multilingual society. Such issues are still prevalent in Kazakhstan,...
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The Governing-Law Anchor in Legal Translation-A Homicide Case Study
The study is aimed to test the governing-law anchor in the comparative analysis of legal terminology to harmonize the clash of legal cultures in...
