The indispensable guide to Anglo-American Legal English
Based on more than 30 years of experience in teaching Legal English, "The Translex 1,000" distills the entire terminology of Legal English down to the one thousand quintessential expressions that every lawyer and law student should know. With this book, absolute beginners, Legal English connoisseurs, native speakers and non-native speakers alike gain indispensable insights into the complex world of legal language as used in the US and UK.
"The Translex 1,000" is based on an unprecedented learning concept where each term is followed by
- a concise and easy-to-grasp definition
- an illustrative example of how the word is used in the world of lawyers
- and/orinteresting and useful background information.
"The Translex 1,000" are systematically grouped into 19 chapters covering the following fields of law:
- Contract Law
- Law of Business Entities
- Commercial Law
- Tort Law
- Real Estate Law
- Employment Law
- Family Law
- Law of Succession
- Civil Litigation
- Arbitration
- Constitutional Law
- Administrative Law
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Antitrust Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Tax Law
- Insolvency Law
- Insurance Law
Autorentext
Prof. Franz J. Heidinger, LL.M. (Virginia), a lawyer-linguist pioneer, is a practising lawyer and senior partner at Alix Frank Attorneys-at-Law in Vienna, Austria. He is also a court-appointed and certified interpreter for English and has published several books - most notably The Practitioners' Guide to Applied Comparative Law and Language - and draws on decades of experience as a lecturer for Legal English at the Schools of Law of the Universities of Vienna and Graz.
Mag. Martin Riedl, BA is a lawyer-linguist in Vienna, Austria, and a graduate of both law and English and American Studies working at the Austrian Patent Office. He holds a Vienna Legal Language Proficiency Certificate and has several years of experience in the field of Anglo-American Law and Language.