Resumen de Legal translation in the face of (de)globalisation. The impact of human development, polycrises and technological disruption in language service provision

Robert Martínez Carrasco , Anabel Borja Albi , Łucja Biel

• This paper explores the relationship between globalisation and legal translation with the aim of establishing future fields of research for the professional practice of the latter. The paper begins with a reflection on current debates on (de)globalisation as a multidimensional set of social processes that create, multiply, unfold and intensify social exchanges and interdependencies on a global scale, with its lights and shadows. A key element in these processes is legal translation, which is framed at the intersection between language and law. After a reflection on the concept of polycrisis in the current world order, our focus is on the impact of globalisation on languages and translation at a time of disruptive technological transformations. Finally, we describe the impact that globalisation and the technological changes of recent years have had on law and legal translation, and we draw a number of conclusions, including the need to train legal translators with new profiles that respond to the communication needs of law as a globalised phenomenon.