Journal Article

Regulatory Translations: Expertise and Affect in Global Legal Fields

Türem, Ziya Umut, Ballestero, Andrea

2014

Overview

'The biggest chunk of the his job involves translation; he is, for all intents and purposes, a translator', said Arif Asya, a Turkish corporate lawyer who was part of a roundtable in the Regulatory Translations workshop they held in Istanbul in May 2013. Being a corporate lawyer and working for foreign clients, as well as local ones, he argued, put him in situations where he had to actively engage in cultural and linguistic translations. At times, he needed to translate the business context and local sensitivities to a foreign client, a process that included, in his words, 'selective translations', which effectively meant nontranslations. The authors have considered this special issue a contribution to an effort to think about the complex phenomenon of regulatory movements by using translation as an analytic frame. As they already noted, it is also possible to think with translation not just as an analytic, but also as an object of analysis: an ongoing process unfolding in the world and in need of analytic attention. Adapted from the source document.

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Subject: Attorneys / Authors / Business / Clients / Commercial regulation / Corporate regulation / Cross Cultural Communication / Economic regulation / Globalization / Government regulation / Human rights / International community / International law / Introduction / Istanbul, Turkey / Language translation / Law / Lawyers / Legal aspects / Legal studies / Linguistics / Native Nonnative Speaker Communication / Political ethics / Regulation / Regulatory reform / Translation / Translations / Translators / Turkey / Turkish language / Workshops