New Advances in Legal Translation and Interpreting

Junfeng Zhao has a Ph.D. in forensic linguistics and is Professor and Director of the Center for Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), China. Professor Zhao is now the Vice Chairman of China National Committee for Translation and Interpreting Education, vice president of WITTA, vice director of the Legal Translation Committee of TAC, and vice-chairman of Translators Association of Guangdong Province, China. From 2014 to 2018, he was the dean of the School of Interpreting and Translation Studies (SITS), GDUFS. He has published extensively in translation and interpreting studies, especially in legal translation and court interpreting.

Defeng Li, is Distinguished Professor of Translation Studies and Director of Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (CSTIC) at the University of Macao. Previously he taught at School of Oriental and African Studies of University of London, where he served as Chair of the Centrefor Translation Studies. He also taught at the Department of Translation, the Chinese University of Hong Kong for a decade. He publishes in cognitive translation studies, corpus-assisted translation studies, translation education, and second language education.

Victoria Lai Cheng Lei is Associate Professor at the University of Macao. She has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow, UK and is a life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. She provides conference interpreting service at local, national and international levels. From 2003 to 2009 she was an invited translator/presenter at Teledifusão de Macao. She studies Comparative Studies, Translation/ Interpreting Studies and 19th-Century Studies. Her interpreting practice and teaching have led her to focus her research on Cognition and Interpreting in recent years. She joined UM’s Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences in 2019.