About

LAWYER-LINGUIST

Buenos Aires — 2001-to date

SUMMARY

Translated several Nobel Prize Laureates; numerous United Nations (UN) documents, including Universal Periodic Reviews (UPR) and Shadow Reports; and various books on Law and Legal Philosophy for Yale Law School, the University of Palermo, the University of Buenos Aires, and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

Also provided legal-linguistic consulting and translation services for governments (Argentina and Peru), major NGOs (including Transparency International, ACLU, ICTJ, PPFA, IPPF, and CELS), UN programs (including UNDP and CEDAW) and, most recently, the International Bar Association (IBA).

Ph.D. student at the University of Palermo where she is also an editorial assistant for the university's law journal and a "Junior" Professor of Law.

BOOKS TRANSLATED BY PAULA ARTURO

● GFC Poverty Report, International Bar Association (IBA), including chapters by four Nobel Laureates, Amartya Sen, James Heckman, Muhammad Yunus and Joseph Stiglitz; English Edition by Neil Gold and Peter Maynard, Spanish Edition by Martin Bohmer, 2014.

● Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity, by Douglas A Kysar, Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law, Yale Law School, Spanish Translation by Florencia Saulino, Spanish Edition by Paula Arturo, 2014.

● Open Government Partnership: Access to Information as a Right + Open Government as a Public Transparency Policy + Open Data as a Tool, Transparency International and Alianza Regional, 2013.

● “Take back the streets”: Repression and criminalization of protest around the world, (Argentina Chapter) ACLU and CELS, 2013.

● Making Justice: Further Discussions on the Prosecution of Crimes against Humanity in Argentina, CELS and ICTJ, 2012.

ACADEMIC PAPERS TRANSLATED BY PAULA ARTURO

● Legal Academy According to Owen Fiss, by Roberto Saba, Dean, University of Palermo, 2014.

● Contract and Collaboration, by Daniel Markovits, Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School, 2014.

● Contract as Thing, by Arthur Leff, Professor of Law at Yale Law School, 2014.

● Human rights, international human rights and sovereign political authority. An outline of a model for understanding contemporary human rights, by Julio Montero, Revision of English version by Paula Arturo, University of Buenos Aires, 2014.

● The Long Way in the Struggle for Accountability in Argentina Important accomplishments and remaining challenges, by Lorena Balardini, CELS, 2013.

● Consolidation of a non-contributory social security system in Argentina? Infant and Maternity Plan, Universal Child and Pregnancy Allowance for Social Security, by Pilar Arcidiácono, Gustavo Gamallo, Mora Straschnoy, University of Buenos Aires, 2012.

● Subsidized Speech, by Robert C. Post, Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School (in El Estado frente a la Libertad de expresión), 2011. Translated by Paula Arturo and Atilio Grimani.

● Recuperating First Amendment Doctrine, by Robert C. Post, Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School (in El Estado frente a la Libertad de expresión), 2011. Translated by Paula Arturo and Atilio Grimani.

● Isaak Rubin in the Argentine Left: Thoughts on the Curious Place of Economics in the National Praxis of Historical Materialism, by Enrique Aschieri, University of Buenos Aires, 2011.

● Democracy as a Precondition of Constitutionalism: From the Constituent Mortal God to the Democratic Mortal God, by Lucas Arrimada, University of Buenos Aires, 2011.