Legal English -- Chinese-English Bilingual Legal Document Creation

Author: Tao Bo (USA), 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 Attorney Tao Bo on training bilingual Chinese-English lawyers in the United States. With the author's long-term experience in legal practice in both China and the U.S., 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, and 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.