The volume Semantic Processing of Legal Texts contains a total of thirteen papers that share the common theme of processing legal documents. One undisputable merit of the book is that of being the first collection to focus specifically on computational linguistic aspects of this task. Otherwise the papers in the collection represent a variety of topics as distinct as ontology engineering, multi-label classification, and translation quality assurance. They deal with theoretical foundations as well as commercial applications, and the authors’ affiliations range from universities to industry. The book is based on selected papers presented at the first workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts (held at LREC 2008 in Marrakech) but comprises further, invited contributions.