Legal Resources for Court Interpreters

• Hawaiʻi State Judiciary Court Interpreters
  Includes links to Application form, Hawaiʻi State Judiciary’s Court Certification Program, Events Calendar, and other resources.
•  National Center for State Courts – State Interpreter Certification
  Offers links to federal and state programs, resources, and surveys.
• Judicial Council of California. Administrative Office of the Courts. Professional standards and ethics for California court interpreters, 5th ed. May 2013.
• Hewitt, William E. Court interpretation: model guides for policy and practice in the state courts. National Center for State Courts, 2002.

PDF of available Legal Glossaries

PDF of available Manuals, Treatises, and Articles

• Pukui, Mary Kawena and Samuel H. Elbert. English-Hawaiian dictionary. University of Hawaii Press, 1964. 188 p.
  [RefRm PL6446 P96e]
• Pukui, Mary Kawena and Samuel H. Elbert. Hawaiian-English dictionary, 3d ed.University of Hawaii Press, 1965. 370 p.
  [RefRm PL6446 P96h 1965]
• Pukui, Mary Kawena, et al. New pocket Hawaiian dictionary, with a concise grammar and given names in Hawaiian. University of Hawaii Press, 1992. 256 p.
  [RefRm PL6446 P96k 1992]
• Online Dictionaries:
  • Wehewehe.org
  • Combined Hawaiian Dictionary

Legal

• Ballentine, James Arthur. Ballentine’s law dictionary with pronunciations, 3d ed. Lawyers Cooperative Pub. Co., 1969. 1429 p.
  [REF KF156 B21 1969]
• Beyer, Gerry W. , et al. Modern dictionary for the legal profession, 4th ed.William S. Hein & Co., 2008. 977 p.
  [REF KF156 B46 2001]
• Burton, William C. Burton’s legal thesaurus, 3d ed. Macmillan Library Reference, 1998. 1012 p.[REF KF156 B95 1998]
• Costello, Elaine. Random House Webster’s American sign language legal dictionary. Random House, 2003. 422 p.
  [REF K52 C82]
• Garner, Bryan A. Black’s law dictionary, 10th ed. West Group, 2014. 2016 p.
  [DESK KF156 B56 2009]
• Garner, Bryan A. A dictionary of modern legal usage, 2d ed. Oxford University Press, 1995. 951 p.
  [REF KF156 G18]
• Lucas, Paul F. Nahoa. Dictionary of Hawaiian legal land terms. Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, 1995. 177 p.
  [RefRm KFH126 A68 D56]
• Sloane, Richard. The Sloane Dorland annotated medical legal dictionary. West Pub. Co., 1987 + 1992 supplement
  [REF RA1017 S56]
• Vasan, R. S., editor-in-chief. Latin words & phrases for lawyers. Law and Business Pub. (Canada), 1980. 335 p.
  [REF KF156 L34]
• Words and phrases. Permanent edition, 1658 to date: all judicial constructions and definitions of words and phrases by the state and federal courts from the earliest times, alphabetically arranged and indexed. West Pub. Co., 1940+ approx. 100 v
  [KF156 W67]