Legal English: Chinese-English Bilingual Legal Document Preparation

Author: Tao Bogong, edited by Gong Bohua
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This book is compiled from the lecture notes of a series of lectures by Lawyer Tao Bogong on training bilingual Chinese-English lawyers in the United States. With the author's advantage of long-term engagement in legal practice in both China and the United States, combined with his "authentic" Chinese language proficiency, the book systematically summarizes the characteristics of legal English, the style, structure, and presumptions of interpretation in drafting English legal regulations. It provides an in-depth analysis of the use of modal verbs, expressions of time and number, and the differences in the use of connecting pronouns in Chinese and English legal documents.