English translation of laws

FAEGRE@delphi.com
Date: 07/04/94


Greetings Colleagues:

Last month I e-mailed desperately for help in obtaining a list of
translation services. There were many responses as well as requests
for summaries of what I learned. My thanks for all your prompt
responses. My apologies for not getting a list together sooner. The
library is temporarily understaffed and is using a lot of its
resources helping approx. 20+ summer associates (they're nice
kids).

I contacted these translation businesses to verify that they are
still offering their services.

TRANSLATION SERVICES:

InterLingua
Los Angeles, CA
303-792-3636

Obtains documents of Pacific rim countries. The service can
translate Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Geolex Publishing Co.
Shorewood, WI
1-800-446-0906

Formerly called Lex Press Ltd. Covers South and Central American
countries; central European countries; the United Arab Emirates;
etc.

Aset/ICI
Washington, DC area
703-516-9266

Very strong in obtaining English translations of legal documents
from East European countries and countries that belonged to the
Former USSR.

INTERNET:

I just have to believe that there are a lot of sources on Internet
that being a novice, I am not aware of. This was put together by
Elliot Chabot (echabot@hr.house.gov). I have not tried to access
any of these addresses:

One source for French/English translations of statutes is at gopher
site
     gopher.droit.UMontreal.CA (port 70) 1/

Summaries of some Croatian laws can be found in English and Croat
at gopher site
     rujan.srce.hr (port 70) 1

The Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany can be found in
English and German at
     sparlast.phil15.uni-sb.de (port 70) 1/gopher-projekt/FR/Jura/
           jur.internet/const

ForInt-Web

The URL is: http://192.104.1.208/web/washlaw/inex1.htm

This was announced on Law-Lib, June 21, 1994, and is a new foreign
and international law web server. Preferred client is MOSAIC or
LYNX. Information posted by Jay Su, Cataloging/Reference Librarian,
Washburn University zzsu@acc.wuacc.edu

     Hope this information helps; as I mentioned earlier there are
probably a lot more sources somewhere on Internet. Meanwhile,
thanks for your patience!

Jan Leichter
Technical Services Librarian
Faegre & Benson
Minneapolis, MN
Faegre@delphi.com
1-800-328-4393



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