Criminal Proceedings, Languages and the European Union Linguistic and Legal Issues /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ruggieri, Francesca (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Law.; Comparative linguistics.; Criminal law.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; International criminal law.; European Law.; Comparative Linguistics.; International Criminal Law.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; Criminal Law.

The book “Criminal proceedings, languages and the European Union: linguistic and legal issues” – the first attempt on this subject – deals with the current situation in the jurislinguistic studies, which cover comparative law, language and translation, towards the aim of the circulation of equivalen...

Table of Contents:

• The Lisbon Treaty, mutual legal assistance and judicial cooperation
• Multilingualism and legal acts
• The Treaty of Lisbon: constitutional provisions with an indefinite content
• Language and the environment: ascending and descending circulation of polysemantic words
• Language and criminal proceedings. Some case-studies.