Proteus
Newsletter of the
National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators

Volume XVI

No. 2 - Summer 2008 (PDF)I

No.1 - Spring 2008 (PDF)

Volume XVI

No. 4 - Winter 2007-2008 (PDF)

No 3 - Fall 2007 (PDF)

No 2 - Summer 2007 (PDF)

No. 1 - Spring 2007 (PDF)


Volume XV

No. 4 - Winter 2007 (pdf)
The Alfonzo Case The Rationale for State Certification in Florida

No. 3 - Fall 2006 (pdf)
An Idea Whose Time Has Come - NAJIT Launches Mentoring Program

No. 2 - Summer 2006 (pdf)
The Voice of Justice: Interpreting Domestic Violence Cases

No. 1 - Spring 2006 (pdf)
The Road Ahead for the State Court Consortium


Volume XIV

No. 4 - Winter 2006 (pdf)
Winds of Change in California

No. 3 - Fall 2005 (pdf)
Arabic Dialects: Common Perceptions and Misperceptions

No. 2 - Summer 2005 (pdf)
Namaste or Assalaam-Alaikum?
Cultural Difference Begins with Hello

No. 1 - Spring 2005 (pdf)
Interpretation After Nuremberg: International War Crimes Trials


Volume XIII

No. 4 - Winter 2005 (pdf)
Cultural Variations in Arabic

No. 3 – Fall 2004 (pdf)
Translator as Accomplice?

No. 2 – Spring/Summer 2004 (pdf)
Eye on Europe

No. 1 – Winter 2004 (pdf)
NAJIT Mourns Leadership Loss


Individual Proteus Articles

Volume XIII, No. 1 – Winter 2004

California’s Senate Bill 371 – Interpreters as Employees  (PDF Document)
Alexander Rainof

Volume XIII, No 3 — Fall 2004

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Translator as Accomplice? 
(MS Word or PDF)
Igor Vesler

NAJIT’s 25th Year – Past, Present, Future  (MS Word or PDF)
Vanesa Ieraci

Interpreted Psychological Evaluations  (MS Word or PDF)
Carol Rhine-Medina

Interpreter Protagonist: Fact or Fiction?  (MS Word or PDF)
Book review by Nancy Schweda Nicholson

Conference Report: The Leaning Tower of Babel  (MS Word or PDF)
Nancy Festinger
 

Volume XII, No 4 — Fall 2003

Neutral Spanish: Is it Necessary? Does it Exist?  (MS Word or PDF)
Guillermo Cabanellas de las Cuevas

Volume XI

No. 4 - Fall 2002 (PDF)

No 3 - Summer 2002 (PDF)
 

Volume X, No 3 — Summer 2001

ASTM Interpretation Standard
Teresa Salazar

Mandarin in the Legal Arena
Judith Shapiro

Requiem for an Interpreters Office, 1985-2001
[anonymous]

Getting Organized: Lessons to be Learned
Hildre Herrera

Community Interpreting Comes of Age
Holly Mikkelson

Volume X, No 2 — Spring 2001

N.J. Per Diems Seek a Fair Deal
Interview with Carla Katz of CWA Local 1034

LITA’s Interpreter Training and Seminar Series
Ilya Julian Shlepakov

Member Activities

Community Interpretation in Spanish: An Entry Level Training Opportunity
George Gage

Volume IX, No 4 — Fall 2000

Interpreter Issues on Appeal
Virginia Benmaman

Introducing ASTM
Teresa Salazar

Volume IX, No 3 — Summer 2000

NAJIT Certification on the Way
Mirta Vidal

Message from the Board

Enigmas of Cuban Spanish
Anthony Rivas

Proteus: Not Only a Greek God
Nancy Festinger

Russian Legal Dictionaries
Yana Agoureev

Anyone Here Speak Russian?
Daniel Sherr

Volume IX, Nos. 1 and 2 — Winter-Spring 2000

Interpreters and their Impact on the Criminal Justice System:
The Alejandro Ramírez Case

Isabel Framer

An Attorney´s Primer: Working With Interpreters
Isabel Picado

A Job No One Had Ever Done Before
Holly Mikkelson reviews The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation: The Nuremburg Trial by Francesca Gaiba

Un delicado juego de malabarismos and
You Must Remember This
Daniel Sherr reviews Spanish-English Dictionary of Law and Business by Thomas L. West and Historias de la interpretación simultánea by Isidoro Calín

Index of older issues


The hard copy Proteus, published quarterly, is the official newsletter of the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators, Inc., 1707 L street, NW, Ste 507, Washington, DC 20036, 202-293-7642 x201, 202-293-0495 (fax). Editor: Nancy Festinger. Address submissions to proteus@najit.org with attached file. Submissions preferred in Microsoft Word with spaces, no indents, between paragraphs. All submissions subject to editorial review. Deadlines: Spring issue, March 1; Summer issue, June 1; Fall issue, September 1; Winter issue, December 1. Annual subscription rate: $16.00, included in membership dues. All opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Association.

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