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Semiotics of International Law: Trade and Translation (Law and Philosophy Library Book 91) by Evandro Menezes de Carvalho (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in this context, the meeting point where different legal cultures and different views of world intersect. The diversity of languages and legal systems can enrich the possibilities of understanding and developing international law, but it can also represent an instability and unsafety factor to the international scenario. This multilegal-system and multilingual scenario adds to the complexity of international law and poses new challenges. One of them is legal translation, which is a field of knowledge and professional skill that has not been the subject of theoretical thinking on the part of legal scholars. How to negotiate, draft or interpret an international treaty that mirrors what the parties, – who belong to different legal cultures and who, on many occasions, speak different mother tongues – , want or wanted to say? By analyzing the decision-making process and the legal discourse adopted by the WTO’s Appellate Body, this book high

Who reads Semiotics of International Law: Trade and Translation (Law and Philosophy Library Book 91)?

Author

Evandro Menezes de Carvalho (auth.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9789048190102

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Literary Criticism, Philosophy