Part I.Properties of legal terminology

Frame approach to legal terminology: What may be gained from seeing terminology as manifestation of legal knowledge?16

Jan Engberg

Definitions in law across legal cultures and jurisdictions37

Anna Jopek-Bosiacka

Ordinary meaning in common law legal interpretation72

Stephen Mouritsen

Variation of legal terms in monolingual and multilingual contexts: Types, distribution, attitudes and causes90

Łucja Biel

The importance of being patterned: Old and new perspectives on legal phraseology124

Gianluca Pontrandolfo

Part II.National legal terminology in translation

Legal terms that travel: Constraints to presenting national legal terminology to international audiences152

Katia Peruzzo

Terminological features of the Chinese legal language173

Deborah Cao

Bilingual legal terminology in Hong Kong: Past, present and future191

Clara Ho-yan Chan

Edmund Cham

How equivalent is equivalence in Arabic‑English legal translation?206

Ahmed Alaoui

On the interaction between legal and religious concepts224

Lahousseine Id-Youss

Abied Alsulaiman

Part III.Legal terminology in multilingual organizations

Legal terminology of the European Union244

Colin D. Robertson

Máirtín Mac Aodha

Terminological variation and conceptual divergence in EU Law271

Martina Bajčić

Visualizing EU law through meta-concepts and legal formants289

Elena Ioriatti

Legal terms, concepts and definitions in the transposition of EU law310

Agnieszka Doczekalska

From the domestic to the supranational: The terminology of “expulsion” as used at the European Court of Human Rights327

James Brannan

Terminology management and terminology quality assurance in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation351

Karolina Stefaniak

Measuring the quality of legal terminological decisions in institutional translation: A comparative analysis of adequacy patterns in three settings375

Fernando Prieto Ramos

Diego Guzmán

EU phraseological verbal patterns in the PETIMOD 2.0 corpus: A NER-enhanced approach397

Gloria Corpas Pastor

Fernando Sánchez Rodas

Part IV.Terminological tools and resources

Legal lexicography and legal information tools432

Sandro Nielsen

Multilingual legal terminology databases: Workflows and roles458

Elena Chiocchetti

Vesna Lušicky

Tanja Wissik

Machine translation and legal terminology: Data-driven approaches to contextual accuracy485

Jeffrey Killman

Automatic term recognition and legal language: A shorter path to the lexical profiling of legal texts?511

María José Marín

The role of Semantic Web technologies in legal terminology542

Patricia Martín-Chozas

Elena Montiel-Ponsoda

Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel

Part V.Legal terminology in training contexts

Dealing with legal terminology in court interpreting570

Mariana Orozco-Jutorán

Legal translator terminology training: Unravelling the mysteries594

Catherine Way

Index

Table of contents

Part I.Properties of legal terminology

Part II.National legal terminology in translation

Part III.Legal terminology in multilingual organizations

Part IV.Terminological tools and resources

Part V.Legal terminology in training contexts