With contributions from world-class specialists this first book-length work looks at translation issues in forensic linguistics, where accuracy and cultural understandings play a prominent part in the legal process.

ENRIQUE ALCARAZ-VARÓ (d. 2009) University of Alicante, Spain LOUIS BEAUDOIN University of Sherbrooke, Canada JEAN-BAPTIST BIGIRIMANA University of Leuven, Belgium OLIVER BRAND is Lecturer at the University of Münster, Germany AGNIESZKA DOCZEKALSKA University of Florence, Italy MAURIZIO GOTTI University of Bergamo, Italy UWE KISCHEL is attorney-at-law (New York), Mercator Professor of Public Law, European Law and Comparative Law (Northeastern Europe), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Germany JOSÉ LAMBERT University of Leuven, Belgium KAREN MCAULIFFE School of Law, University of Exeter, UK LAWRENCE M. SOLAN is Don Forchelli Professor of Law, Director, Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Brooklyn Law School, USA VOLKER TRIEBEL is a partner at Lovells in Düsseldorf, Germany