Translation Solutions for Legal Documents

Chapter 1: Legal translation today – between law, language, and technologies

• • 1.1 Practical aspects of legal translation
• • 1.2 Legal systems and translation
• • 1.3 Translation strategies and techniques
• • 1.4 Modern technologies in translation

Chapter Part 1: Translating legislation

Chapter 2: General information about legislation and its translation

• • 2.1 The purpose of legislation and its translation
• • 2.2 Structure, classification, and hierarchy of legislative texts
• • 2.3 A translator of legislation
• • 2.4 When legislative acts need to be translated

Chapter 3: Translating EU legislative acts

• • 3.1 Types and general characteristics of EU legislative acts
• • 3.2 Machine translation in EU institutions
• • 3.3 Challenges of translating titles, subject matter, scope, and definitions of EU legislative acts
• • 3.4 Exercises

Chapter 4: Translating UK legislation

• • 4.1 Primary and secondary legislation in UK law
• • 4.2 Structure and linguistic characteristics of Acts of Parliament of the UK, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
• • 4.3 Translating different structural parts of UK legislative acts
• • 4.4 Grammatical issues of translating UK legislation: infinitive phrases and clauses
• • 4.5 Exercises

Chapter 5: Translating US legislation

• • 5.1 The hierarchy of US legislative acts
• • 5.2 Translating the Constitution
• • 5.3 Grammatical challenges of translating passive voice structures
• • 5.4 Exercises

Chapter Part 2: Translating contracts

Chapter 6: General information about contracts and their translation

• • 6.1 The nature of contracts
• • 6.2 The goals of signing contracts
• • 6.3 Contracts in common and civil law jurisdictions
• • 6.4 Structural elements of the contract
• • 6.5 Language of contracts and translation problems
• • 6.6 When contracts need to be translated

Chapter 7: Translating contracts for an unlimited number of users

• • 7.1 Types of contracts for an unlimited number of users
• • 7.2 The functions of a website’s "Terms of Use"
• • 7.3 Common provisions included in the "Terms of Use"
• • 7.4 Translation of contracts with an indefinite number of users
• • 7.5 Language categories. Language of obligation, permission, and prohibition
• • 7.6 Limitation of liability and disclaimer clauses
• • 7.7 Exercises

Chapter 8: Translating service provision contracts

• • 8.1 Functions and goals of the service contract
• • 8.2 Common clauses and structures of service provision contracts
• • 8.3 Challenges of translating service provision contracts. Titles
• • 8.4 An introductory clause and its translation
• • 8.5 Language of performance as a translation problem
• • 8.6 Exercises

Chapter 9: Translating building construction contracts

• • 9.1 Specific features of a building construction contract
• • 9.2 Common provisions and structure of a building construction contract
• • 9.3 Archaic words and phrases in legal English as a translation problem
• • 9.4 Noun premodification as a specific feature of the English language and methods of its translation
• • 9.5 Exercises

Chapter Part 3: Translating court judgments and opinions

Chapter 10: General information about courts and court documents

• • 10.1 Functions of courts and court documents
• • 10.2 Court documents in different law systems
• • 10.3 Definitions of "judgment"
• • 10.4 When court judgments and opinions need to be translated

Chapter 11: Translating judgments of the European Court of Human Rights

• • 11.1 The history, jurisdiction, and structure of the European Court of Human Rights
• • 11.2 Structural parts of ECtHR judgments and their translation
• • 11.3 Translation of the circumstances of the case as a narrative
• • 11.4 Relevant legal framework and practice and the "Law" section
• • 11.5 Grammatical challenges of translating ECtHR judgments: tense forms of the verbs in different sections of the judgment
• • 11.6 Exercises

Chapter 12: Translating UK court judgments

• • 12.1 UK judicial system, structure, and hierarchy
• • 12.2 Participants in the proceedings
• • 12.3 Pre-translation analysis of the judgment
• • 12.4 Structural elements of UK judgments and their translation
• • 12.5 Exercises

Chapter 13: Translating US Supreme Court opinions

• • 13.1 The judicial system of the United States
• • 13.2 Judicial opinion as a post-trial document: definition and types
• • 13.3 Common structural elements of the US judicial opinions and how to understand them to translate properly
• • 13.4 References and citations: how to understand abbreviations and translate them correctly
• • 13.5 Participants in the US Supreme Court
• • 13.6 Grammatical challenges of translating gerunds and gerundial structures
• • 13.7 Exercises