Book Release: Where Language Meets Law: ABA Book Explores the Language of Transnational Deals

CHICAGO, July 7, 2010 – A critical component of any deal is language. And for lawyers who make deals across borders and those who litigate them, the newly released book Choosing the Language of Transnational Deals: Practicalities, Policy, and Law Reform, from the American Bar Association Section of International Law, forms a solid bridge to better understand how law and language interconnect.

Drawing on examples from English-, French-, Italian-, Portuguese-, and Spanish-speaking jurisdictions, Choosing the Language of Transnational Deals takes a comprehensive look at cross-border secured lending and commercial dispute resolution.  It illustrates the ways governments might best promote languages and economic activity, and how parties to transactions can effectively structure their business to maximize control of the choice of language in which they deal.

Choosing the Language of Transnational Deals integrates investigations of national legal systems, the European Union, the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa, and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, to illustrate the new institutional dynamics through which the languages of transnational commerce and finance are being defined.

Anyone – lawyers and non-lawyers – who makes deals across borders, is eager to learn how to navigate the challenges and opportunities of language as it relates to law, or simply is  passionate about language, will gain a better understanding of the harmonization of law and language through this book.

Author Patrick Del Duca, a partner with Zuber & Taillieu LLP in Los Angeles, is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, and an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.

With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world.  As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

Title: Choosing the Language of Transnational Deals: Practicalities, Policy, and Law Reform
Publisher: American Bar Association
Pages: 306
Product Code: 5210210
ISBN: 978-1-60442-937-4
Size: 6×9
Binding: Paperback
Price: $114.95; $91.95 for ABA Section of International Law members
Orders: www.ababooks.org or 800.285.2221

Editor’s note: Review copies are available by sending an e-mail to Holly Hickey at hickeyh@staff.abanet.org.  If you publish a review of this book, please send tearsheets or a copy for our files to Holly Hickey, ABA Book Publishing, 321 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60654.

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