The research project "Origin, Reception and Application of Contemporary Legal Terminology" is carried out by a team of the Faculty of Law within the framework of the SUMMIT project (Sofia University - Marker for Innovation and Technology Transfer) with funding under the National Recovery and Sustainability Plan of Bulgaria. The project, dedicated to classical and modern legal terminology, called for short "Anima Legis", is being implemented in the period from 2023 to 2025.

The project team led by Assoc. Prof. Simeon Groysman aims to provide a comprehensive demonstration of the roots of legal terminology used in continental legal culture, tracing its Roman law etymology, subsequent development and contemporary continental application.

On the basis of the linguistic foundation of legal dogmatics outlined in this way, research efforts will be directed towards the characteristics of the functioning of contemporary legal language as a language of thought in legal formulas, but also a language with open meanings ("open texture"), implying the need for legal interpretation and underpinning law-making and law-enforcement processes.

The results of the presented project will be directed towards the improvement of teaching in the Faculty of Law, where a new multidisciplinary format developing the relevant matter is being developed from the academic year 2019-2020. The linguistic issues of law and legal scholarship are thematically divided into the two interrelated parts of the elective courses "Classical Legal Terminology" in the winter term and "Modern Legal Terminology" in the summer term of the first year.