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The Possible Dream: Perfecting Bilingual Law Dictionaries by Distinguishing Better Examples from Bad Examples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Dennis Kim-Prieto  and
Conrad J.P. van Laer
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Abstract

As the practice of law crosses national (and linguistic) borders with increasing frequency, the need for tools that facilitate the transnational practice of law becomes more acute. Bilingual legal dictionaries (BLDs) are one critical such tool, as they offer access to legal systems as well as the languages of these systems. Unfortunately, librarians have offered scant criticism of BLDs, many of which are not particularly useful. This article summarizes critical problems with BLDs and offers an approach to resolving these problems by focusing upon the quality of the entries, or definitions, that BLDs provide.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , Summer 2011 , pp. 237 - 250
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Copyright © 2011 by The Institute for International Legal Information 

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