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What Could Be Gained In Translation: Legal Language And Lawyer-Linguists In A Globalized World, Samantha Hargitt Jan 2013

What Could Be Gained In Translation: Legal Language And Lawyer-Linguists In A Globalized World, Samantha Hargitt

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Translation and interpretation have long played a vital role in many legal contexts, from providing equal rights to defendants to facilitating mutual understanding among the members of the United Nations. Legal language, though, is incredibly complex and even faithfully equivalent translations can fail to meet the high standards required for operation in international legal contexts, where a lack of understanding over a single term could mean the difference between a material and non-material breach in a treaty or transnational contract. Branches of linguistics, such as comparative legal linguistics and forensic linguistics, study the characteristics and functions of legal language across …


Global Anti-Anarchism: The Origins Of Ideological Deportation And The Suppression Of Expression, Julia Rose Kraut Jan 2012

Global Anti-Anarchism: The Origins Of Ideological Deportation And The Suppression Of Expression, Julia Rose Kraut

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

On September 6, 1901, a self-proclaimed anarchist named Leon Czolgosz fatally shot President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. This paper places the suppression of anarchists and the exclusion and deportation of foreigners in the aftermath of the "shot that shocked the world" within the context of international anti-anarchist efforts, and reveals that President McKinley's assassination successfully pulled the United States into an existing global conversation over how to combat anarchist violence. This paper argues that these anti-anarchist restrictions and the suppression of expression led to the emergence of a "free speech consciousness" among anarchists, and …


The Forgotten Threat: Private Policing And The State, Elizabeth E. Joh Jul 2006

The Forgotten Threat: Private Policing And The State, Elizabeth E. Joh

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

What do Disneyland, the Abu Ghraib U.S. military prison, the Mall ofAmerica, and the Y-12 nuclear security complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee have in common? They have wildly different purposes, but they share a common characteristic as employers of private police. This answer-indicative of the prevalence and numbers of private police today-would have struck the nineteenth -century observer as evidence of a gross failure by the state. Yet that reaction, in turn, would seem odd to us. Vocal support of private police can be found among public police chiefs, lawmakers, and even President Bush.

What kinds of criticisms were once …


Terrorism: The International Response Of The Courts (The Institute For Advanced Study Branigin Lecture), Michael D. Kirby Jan 2005

Terrorism: The International Response Of The Courts (The Institute For Advanced Study Branigin Lecture), Michael D. Kirby

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

The Institute for Advanced Study Branigin Lecture


Globalization And Governance: The Prospects For Democracy, Sir David Williams David Q. C. Jan 2003

Globalization And Governance: The Prospects For Democracy, Sir David Williams David Q. C.

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Globalization and Governance: The Prospects for Democracy, Symposium


The Crescent And The Union: Islam Returns To Western Europe, John D. Snethen Oct 2000

The Crescent And The Union: Islam Returns To Western Europe, John D. Snethen

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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