Literature Review on Comparative Law and Legal Language

Abstract

In a world more and more globalised comparative law is achieving a central role under different aspects, such as: methods, legal language, EU law and legal education. It is well known that comparative law has relations with many disciplines, several scholars addressed the issue of interdisciplinarity and new perspectives for comparative law. In comparative legal studies, language and translation play a critical role that has long been acknowledged by the scientific community. Consequently, the study of legal translation in all its forms and the essential significance of language in comparative legal studies are now well-established disciplines of study. This contribution is a review of comparative law and legal language literature and publications. Due to the increasing interest to the subject of law and language it is possible to find many contributions, the following are only some suggestions on, this review makes no claim to be comprehensive, but rather to recommend some useful and interesting readings.