Spanish/English Legal, Diplomatic, Commercial Translation Resources
**: THE MOST USEFUL RESOURCES
Meta-Index for Legal Research
Search databases for US judicial opinions, legislation, federal regulation and other legal sources.
http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/
Links to Internet Resources for Translators and Interpreters.
Links to many sites in following categories: organizations, terminology, universities, chat groups.
http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/c6/c613/tranlink.html
Indiana University World Wide Web Virtual Library
The Virtual Library is a collection of links to related websites maintained by institutions throughout the world, each administering a different subject. Search the virtual library by organization type (i.e. U.S. Government Servers)
or legal topic (i.e. Contracts).
http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib/
Tufts
University Legal Links
Links to 100+ sites relating to International Law and Economics
http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/intl/intl.html
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Home Page. Access to press releases, information and documentation services.
Links to Legal Instruments.
http://www.unesco.org/
World Trade Organization
On-line documents, Publications, Legal Texts, Press Releases.
http://www.wto.org/
Red Iberoamericana de Información y Documentación Judicial
www.iberius.org/
ProQuest Information and learning
LEGIS (Latin American source of legal information)
http://www.legis.com.co/nuevo/index.asp
LEXBASE (Database to access the Colombian legal system)
http://www.lexbase.com/inicio.htm
Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración (Very good list of links with World Trade International Organizations)
UN Databases in Spanish
http://www.un.org/spanish/databases/databases.htm
The European Union
The official server of the Parliament, the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors and other bodies of the European Union.
http://europa.eu.int/index-en.htm
Organización Naciones Unidas
http://www.un.org/spanish/
Organización De Los Estados Americanos
http://www.oas.org/main/spanish/
Parlamento Latinoamericano
http://www.parlatino.org/
Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración
Ministerio de Justicia -Colombia
http://www.mininteriorjusticia.gov.co/biblioteca/consulta.htm
Senado De La República De Colombia
www.senado.gov.co
Congreso De la
República de Bolivia
www.congreso.gov.bo/indice.asp
Congreso De La
República De Chile.
www.congreso.cl/
Congreso De La República de Ecuador
www.presidencia.gov.ec/default.asp
Senado De La República Argentina
http://www.senado.gov.ar/principal.php
Congreso De La República de Honduras
Asamblea Nacional De La República de Panamá
Congreso De La República De Perú
http://www.congreso.gob.pe/index.asp
Ministerio De Comercio Exterior De Costa Rica
Senado De La República Dominicana
Senado De Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos
Congreso De La República De Guatemala
Asamblea República De Nicaragua
Parlamento De Uruguay
http://www.parlamento.gub.uy/dgip/palacio3/index.htm
Bases de Datos del Senado De España
http://www.senado.es/basesdedatos/index.html
English
Finance & Development Quarterly (English)
The quarterly publication of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
Free access to articles, reports and commercial texts.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2004/12/index.htm
International Finance Corporation: Press (English)
Search database of press releases by year, region or industry.
http://ifcln001.worldbank.org/ifcext/pressroom/ifcpressroom.nsf/SPREnglish
International Finance Corporation: Publications (English)
Contains longer publications of International Finance Corporation
www.ifc.org/publications
Transition: The Newsletter of Emerging Economies (English/Russian)
By the International Monetary Fund. Each edition contains 20+ articles about economics in emerging and developing economies.
http://www.worldbank.org/html/prddr/trans/archives.htm
United Nations Press Releases
Access Spanish and English press releases from the United Nations.
http://www.unsystem.org/es/
World Bank: Publications (English)
Home Page for accessing World Bank Publications.
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/pubs.htm
English/Spanish
International Finance Corporation Translations (French/Spanish/English)
Access French, English, Spanish translations.
http://www.imf.org/external/ns/search.aspx?NewQuery=translation&Site+Search.x=20&Site+Search.y=6
Int'l Chamber of Commerce: A few public documents (French/English)
http://www.iccwbo.org
UNESCO International bibliography of translations (French/English/Spanish)
Search database of UN translations.
http://www.unesco.org/culture/xtrans/html_eng/index1.shtml
World Trade Organization Translation & Document Dissemination Division
Access to WTO translations in French, Spanish and English, excellent source of parallel texts.
http://docsonline.wto.org/gen_home.asp?language=1&_=1
Legal/Diplomatic
The American Standard Law Dictionary
Short definitions of standard legal terms in English.
http://www.e-legal.com/resources/dict/
CourtTV Glossary of Legal Terms
http://www.courttv.com/archive/legalterms/glossary.html
Commercial
Glosario de Términos Financieros
http://pristine.com/esp/glossary.htm
Diccionarios de Comercio Exterior
http://usuarios.lycos.es/Masterdeluniverso/glosacomexterior6.htm
English to Spanish Business Glossary
Financial Encyclopedia. English and foreign terms/acronyms
3500+ terms, mostly English, but also contains many foreign terms and acronyms, from International Financial Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Management and Technology.
http://www.euro.net/innovation/Finance_Base/Fin_encyc.html
Cohispania. Glosario de Términos Financieros
http://www.cohispania.com/Glosario.asp
Multilingual, Miscellaneous
EURODICAUTOM: "A Translator's best friend on the Web" (Spanish/English)
Allows you to select source and target languages and query database of terms in all subject areas.
Includes definitions, examples in context, abbreviations, etc.
http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller
The Contracts Library
CORI - Contracting and Organizations Research Initiative (University of
Missouri-Columbia) [Formerly maintained by the Center for Research on Contracts and the Structure of Enterprise at the
University of
Pittsburgh,]. You can access this searchable database for free. Registration required
to access the database.
Contains numerous contracts in the following areas: mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, franchising, entertainment, shipping, health care, etc. http://cori.missouri.edu/
The American Standard Legal Forms
Contains Litigation and Transactional forms. www.e-legal.com/
CataLaw: Business and Legal Forms (English)
Scrool down and link to sites containing legal and business forms.
http://CataLaw.com/topics/Forms.shtml
The 'Lectric Law Library's Forms Room
Legal Forms in Business and Law, Real Estate, Employment Matters, Probate, etc.
http://www.lectlaw.com/form.html
Legal Documents
Internet's largest collection of free legal forms
http://www.ilrg.com/forms/
Links to Business and Legal Forms in English
Link to hundreds of legal and business forms.
Note: Adobe Acrobat reader required for downloads in .pdf format;
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1802/buslegal.html
NYU Edgar Filing Retrieval Tool
Search, view, download and print financial statements and forms filed with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by
U.S. and foreign corporations.
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Quo Jure Legal Form Archive
The site includes examples of a number of documents classified by document type, subject matter and date.
http://www.legalethics.com/index.law
Banco De Patentes Universidad Autónoma De México
http://www.ibt.unam.mx/biblioteca/patentes.htm
Oficina Española De Patentes
Oficina Nacional De Patentes de Argentina
http://www.inpi.gov.ar/patentes/pat001.htm
Banco De Patentes De Colombia
http://www.bancopatentes.gov.co/
STO's Patent Search System Site
This is the home page for Source Translation & Optimization's (STO) Internet Patent Search System, a way for people around the world to perform patent searches and access information on the patenting process. Find patent titles by scrolling through the list
and selecting the class and subclasses from general to specific (i.e., Machinery: Manufacturing: Wheelwright Machines), or enter the class/subclass codes as used in the Index to the U.S. Manual of Classifications (ex: 363-131).
http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html
IBM Patent Server
Most comprehensive U.S. Patent site.
Allows you to access over 26 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) patent descriptions. Search by words (e.g. elevator, robot, twin-engine, John Smith, etc.), or scroll down to perform an alternative or
boolean search.
http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/
United States Patent and Trademark Office’s free patent databases.
These include both the US Patent Bibliographic Database (a freely searchable database of front page information from US patents issued from 1976-1997), and the AIDS Patent Database (a freely searchable database of the full text and images of AIDS related patents
issued by the US, Japanese and European patent offices).
http://patents.uspto.gov/
European Patent Office Internet Resources
Scroll down list to view links classified by the following categories: Patent offices, Database hosts offering patent databases, Patents classification systems, Useful European connections, and similar sources.
http://www.european-patent-office.org/online/index.htm
LANTRA: Translator and Interpreter
Listserve
This electronic mailing list for translators and interpreters allows you to ask questions about terms and receive quick answers from professional translators. Expect to receive approximately 100+ e-mail messages daily.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7110/ltr2.htm
To subscribe, go to
listserv@segate.sunet.se
*Black's Law Dictionary.
The Standard and Authoritative Reference for U.S. Legal Terms.
Ref. Ref. KF156 .B53 1990
Dictionary of the Law. Ref. KF156 .O69 1991
Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage. Ref. KF156 .G367 1987
Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Law.
by Parry, Grant, Watts
Longer definitions with chapter containing official documents such as Charter of the United Nations,
Covention of Vienna and UN declarations. Ref. JX1226 .P33 1986
Essential Dictionary of Real Estate Terminology. Stacks HD 1365 .H45 1982
Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary of Real Estate.
Includes "Portfolio of Forms" including sample mortgage agreements, deeds, leases, notes.
Stacks HD 1365 .G79 1982
The International Law Dictionary. Ref. JX1226 .B57 1987
Law Dictionary. Barron's Educational Series. Ref. KF156 .G53 1984
Law Dictionary with Pronunciation. Ref. KF156 .B3
Legal Thesaurus. Ref. KF156 .B856
Merriam Webster's Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster, 1996.
The Plain-Language Law Dictionary. Ref. KF156 .P58
Shepard's/McGraw Hill Tax Dictionary for Business. (1996)
Webster's New World Legal Word Finder. Ref. KF319 .O27 1987
**Cabanellas & Hoague. Butterworth's English-Spanish Dictionary. Butterworth Legal Publishers, 1999. (Latin American Spanish) Ref. # K52.S6 C33 1991 1. Located MAIN ref index table.
**Thomas L. West, III. Spanish-English Dictionary of Law and Business. Protea Publishing Company. 1999. Ref#. K52.S6 W4 1999.
Alcaraz Varó, Campos Pardillos and Miguélez. El Inglés Jurídico Norteamericano. Editorial Ariel, 2001. (peninsular Spanish)
Alcaraz Varó & Hughes. El Español Jurídico. Ariel, 2003. (Peninsular Spanish)
Alcaraz Varó. Legal Translation Explained. Manchester, UK ; Northampton, MA : St. Jerome Pub., 2002. Ref # K213 .A418 2002
Becerra, Javier F. Diccionario de Terminología Jurídica Mexicana. México: Escuela Libre de Derecho, 1999.
Benmaman, Connolly and Loos. Bilingual Dictionary of Criminal Justice Terms (English/Spanish). New Cork: Gould Publications, 1991.Ref. # K52.S6 B45 1991
Dahl, Henry S. Dahl's law dictionary : Spanish-English/English-Spanish : an annotated legal dictionary, including authoritative definitions from codes, case law, statutes, and legal writing and legal opinions of attorneys general = Diccionario jurídico Dahl. Buffalo, N.Y.: W.S. Hein, 1999. Ref. # K52.S6 D33 1992. Available Ohio Link 1992 Edition.
Kaplan, Steven M. Wiley's English-Spanish, Spanish-English Legal Dictionary. New York: Wiley law publications,1997. Ref. # K52.S6 K36 1997
Lacasa Navarro, Ramón. Diccionario de DerechoEconomía y Política : inglés-español, español-inglés = Dictionary of law, economy and politic [sic] : English-Spanish, Spanish-English / Ramón Lacasa Navarro, Isidro Díaz de Bustamante . Madrid : Editorial Revista de Derecho Privado : Editoriales de Derecho Reunidas, 1986. Ref# K52.S62 L32 1986
Robb, Louis A. Diccionario de Términos Legales. French & European Publications Inc. 1990.
Romañach, Julio. Dictionary of Legal Terms : Spanish-English, English-Spanish = Diccionario de Términos Jurídicos : Español-Inglés, Inglés-Español. Baton Rouge, LA .Lawrence Pub. Co., 1992. Ref.# K52.S6R66 1992.
Spanish Law Dictionary : Spanish/English, English/Spanish = ; Diccionario de Términos Jurídicos ; Español-Inglés, Inglés-Español . [editorial team, P.H. Collin... [et al.] Teddington: Peter Collin, 1999. Ref.# K52.S6 S62 1999
Solís & Gasteazoro. West's Spanish-English/English-Spanish Law Dictionary. St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co., 1992.
Castro Palés, Marisol. Diccionario de Términos Jurídicos: Español - Inglés, English - Spanish . Madrid : Espasa Calpe, 2002. Ref. # K52.S6 D52 2002.
Arco Torres, Miguel Angel del. Diccionario de Términos Jurídicos. Granada, 1999.
Alcaraz Varó & Hughes. Diccionario de Términos Jurídicos. Ariel.
De Piña, Rafael. Diccionario de Derecho. Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, S.A., 1983.
Espasa, Calpe. Diccionario de Términos Jurídicos Español Inglés. Espasa Calpe Mexicana, S.A., 2003.
Ghersi, Carlos. Diccionario de Términos Jurídicos Más Usuales. La Ley: 2004.
Ossorio y Florit, Manuel. Diccionario de Ciencias Jurídicas, Políticas y Sociales / Manuel Osorio. Buenos Aires: Heliasta, 2000. Ref. # K50 .O88 2000
Rivera García, Ignacio. Diccionario de Términos Jurídicos. Orford, N.H., E.U.A. : Equity Pub. Co., 1985. Ref # K54 .R58 1985. Available Ohio Links for library use only.
López de Puga, Ana. Diccionario Jurídico Bursátil. Buenos Aires : Abeledo-Perrot, 2002. Ref. # HG4513 .L67 2002.
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Accounting and Finance (English). Ref. HF1001 .S525 1989
Reuters Glossary of International Economic & Financial Terms (English). Ref. HB 61 .R48x 1989
Webster's NewWorld Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary of Real Estate (includes forms)
Ref. HD1365 .G76 1987
**Kaplan, Steven M. Wiley's English-Spanish, Spanish-English Business Dictionary: Diccionario De Negocios Ingles-Espanol, Espanol-Ingles Wiley. Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporate, 1996. Ref. HB61 .K323 1996. Available Ohio Link.
Collin, et al., Dictionary of Business. (peninsular Spanish). Peter Collin Publishing, Ltd. 2001.
Dobbins, Tim. Business Companion. Spanish. Living Language. Book & CD, 2001.
Gorman, Michael & Henson, María-Luisa. Manual of Business Spanish: A comprehensive Language Guide (language for business). Routledge, 1996. Ref. # HF1002 .G65 1997.Available Ohio Link.
Lopez, Sinda & Watt, Donald. The Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary: Spanish, English/English, Spanish. Oxford University Press, 2004. Ref. # 468.3421 Ox2 Available Ohio Link edition.
Alcaraz Varó & Hughes. Diccionario de Términos Económicos, Financieros y Comerciales : Inglés-Español, Spanish-English / Enrique Alcaraz Varó y Brian Hughes. Barcelona: Ariel, 1997. Ref. # HB61 .A47 1996x (Available Ohio Link 1996 edition)
Urrutia, Raola. Diccionario de Negocios. Limusa, 1995.
Muñoz, Hernández. Diccionario De Comercio Internacional. Lázaro 2002
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