New challenges to the theory of legal translation: transnational legal communication and the autonomization of international law
The Translator, (2014)Abstract
New approach to legal translation, by Susan Šarčević, The Hague, London & Boston, Kluwer Law International, 1997 (reprinted 2000), 308 pp., USD \$240 (hbk), ISBN 9-04-110401-1 When Susan Sarcević published her book on legal translation in 1997, national parliaments and national courts were still the primary producers and interpreters of legal rules, and international, supranational and transnational law played a less dominant role in the legal landscape than they do today. Since then, the socio-political and institutional contexts of law have changed. General processes of globalisation have generated a need for inter-, supraand transnational legal communication and intensified legal harmonisation across and above national legal systems, also affecting the languages of law and, thus, legal translation