Introduction Marie Bourguignon, Bieke Nouws & Heleen van GerwenGovernment ideologies in translation: An enquiry into past Canadian budget speeches Chantal GagnonThe complexity of a translation policy: Interpreting for ethnic linguistic minorities in a local courtroom in China Shuang LiTranslation guidelines versus practice: A corpus-based study of the impact of the Polish style guide on translations of EU legislation and reports drafted by the European CommissionKatarzyna WasilewskaInstitutional translation practices in South Tyrol: An exploratory study on civil servants working as ‘occasional translators’ Flavia De CamillisJudicial review of translation policy: The case of bilingual Catalonia in monolingual SpainAlbert BranchadellInvestigating the status of Italian as an ‘official minority language’ within the Swiss multilingual institutional systemPaolo CanaveseTranslation, interpreting and institutional routines: The case of SlovakiaMarketa Štefková & Helena TužinskáFlawless in translation? Legal translations in the Flemish legal professional press (1889–1935)Sebastiaan VandenbogaerdeTranslating the Belgian Civil Code: Developments after 1961Willem PossemiersTranslation in administrative interactions: Policies and practices at the local level in the Dutch language area of Belgium Jonathan BernaertsAbout the editors About the authors IndexTranslating ‘grey literature’ and the role of institutional and legal translatorsThis edited volume documents the state of the art in research on translation policies in both legal and institutional settings. Offering case studies of past and present translation policies from all over the world, it allows for a compelling comparison of attitudes towards translation in varying contexts.It highlights the virtues of integrating different types of expertise in the study of translation policy: theoretical and applied, historical and modern, legal, institutional, and political. It effectively illustrates how a multidisciplinary perspective furthers our understanding of translation policies and unveils their intrinsic link with issues such as multilingualism, linguistic justice, minority rights, and citizenship. In this way, each contribution sheds new light on the role of translation in the everyday interaction between governments and multilingual populations.This edited volume documents the state of the art in research on translation policies in both legal and institutional settings. Offering case studies of past and present translation policies from all over the world, it allows for a compelling comparison of attitudes towards translation in varying contexts.It highlights the virtues of integrating different types of expertise in the study of translation policy: theoretical and applied, historical and modern, legal, institutional, and political. It effectively illustrates how a multidisciplinary perspective furthers our understanding of translation policies and unveils their intrinsic link with issues such as multilingualism, linguistic justice, minority rights, and citizenship. In this way, each contribution sheds new light on the role of translation in the everyday interaction between governments and multilingual populations.