Research Methods in Legal Translation and Interpreting (PDF)

Lucja Biel is Associate Professor and Head of Corpus Research Centre at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland, where she teaches and researches legal translation. She is Secretary General of the European Society of Translation Studies (EST) and deputy editor of the Journal of Specialised Translation . She has participated in a number of internationally and nationally funded research projects on legal and institutional translation. Her research interests focus on legal/EU translation, legal terminology, translator training

and corpus linguistics. She has published over 50 papers in this area, e.g. in The Translator, Meta. The Translators' Journal, The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Fachsprache, LANS-TTS and a book Lost in the Eurofog. The Textual Fit of Translated Law (Peter Lang, 2014).

Jan Engberg, PhD is Professor of Knowledge Communication at the School of

Communication and Culture, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He teaches legal

as well as fi nancial translation at BA and MA level, as well as other branches of

text oriented foreign language skills. His main areas of research interest are the

study of translation and mediation of knowledge in the fi eld of law, texts and

genres in the academic fi eld, cognitive aspects of domain-specifi c discourse and

the relations between specialised knowledge and text formulation as well as basic

aspects of communication in domain-specifi c settings. His research focus is upon

communication and translation in the fi eld of law. He is editor-in-chief of the

international journal Fachsprache and member of the editorial or advisory boards

of a substantial number of international scholarly journals.

M. Rosario Martín Ruano is Associate Professor at the University of

Salamanca, Spain, where she is a member of the Research Group on Translation,

Ideology and Culture