Legal English

Author: Tao Bo
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book is compiled from the lecture notes of a series of lectures by Lawyer Tao Bo 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 U.S., combined with his "authentic" Chinese proficiency, the book systematically summarizes the characteristics of legal English, the style, structure, and presumptions of interpretation in English legal drafting, and provides an in-depth analysis of the use of modal verbs, temporal and numerical expressions, as well as the differences in the use of connecting pronouns in Chinese and English legal documents.