Translation and Public Policy

Gabriel González Núñez is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley where he teaches several BA and MA courses in translation and interpreting, including legal translation and court interpreting. He is also the Undergraduate Translation & Interpreting Programs Coordinator.Reine Meylaerts is Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at KU Leuven where she teaches courses on European Literature, Comparative Literature and Translation and Plurilingualism in Literature. She was director of CETRA from 2006-2014 and is now a board member. She is also the review editor of Target.

• 1. Interdisciplinary perspectives on translation policy: New directions and challenges Reine Meylaerts & Gabriel González Núñez2. Translational justice: Between equality and privation Helder De Schutter3. Translation as marginalisation? International law, translation and the status of linguistic minorities Jacqueline Mowbray4. From language planning to translation policy: Looking for a conceptual framework Oscar Diaz Fouces5. Comparative language policy and evaluation: Criteria, indicators and implications for translation policy Michele Gazzola & François Grin6. Political philosophy and scientific translation: When individual interest does not translate into collective benefits David Robichaud7. Educational interpreting as instrument of language policy: The case at a "historically Afrikaans" South African university Theodorus du Plessis8. Law and translation at the U.S.-Mexico border: Translation policy in a diglossic setting Gabriel González Núñez