Comment on Patrícia Jerónimo’s ‘Legal Translation and the Challenges of Overcoming Language Barriers in Court Practice: Evidence from Portuguese Courts’
Abstract This commentary is a response to Patrícia Jerónimo’s article ‘Legal translation and the challenges of overcoming language barriers in court practice: Evidence from Portuguese courts’, which appears in this special issue. The commentary focuses on the potential of machine translation tools to overcome many of the obstacles that courts currently face in trying to provide adequate translation and interpretation services.
Authors
- Manuel Fontaine Campos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7511-9848)
Institutions
- Universidade Católica Portuguesa (PT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-025-10319-3
- Primary Topic
- Artificial Intelligence in Law
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia