This book is the second volume of the publication on Legal Language, Legal Discourse: Variation and Beyond, edited by Panagiotis G. Krimpas and Lelija Sočanac. It contains ten chapters on legal language and/or discourse issues with particular focus on topics ranging from Eurolects and intrasystemic variation of legal terminology to specific geographical legal language varieties, plain legal language, neology, and emerging legal discourses with environmental relevance, discussed through the lens of contemporary approaches and research methods. The chapters are distributed in two parts, each comprising five contributions. The first part discusses issues of legal language that can be mostly attributed to intrasystemic chronological, sociolectal and/or institutional variation and intersystemic diatopic variation connected with pluricentricity, while the second deals with terminological and text-linguistic approaches. The book will be useful primarily for academics, linguists, legal translators and lawyers, and it can also provide additional reading for students of law, legal linguistics and/or legal translation.

Panagiotis G. Krimpas is full professor of Terminology, Translation and Legal Texts at the Department of Humanities, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He has practiced law (2001–2017) and regularly collaborated with Greek governmental institutions (2013–2025), including the Prime Minister’s Office (2013–2015) and the Diplomatic Cabinet of the President of the Republic (2015–2020). He is a founding and former BoD member of the Hellenic Society for Translation Studies, a BoD member of the Hellenic Society for Terminology and speaks fifteen languages. His research interests include legal linguistics, historical linguistics, and dialectology.

Lelija Sočanac is retired full professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She was head of the Foreign Language Department  and head of the Centre for Language and Law at the same institution, where she was involved in legal-linguistic research, organisation of conferences, curriculum development and implementation of  language courses for lawyers, and development of new language teaching methods and materials. Her research interests include legal linguistics, contact linguistics, (historical) sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.