Legal Translation Foundations
Contracts, certificates, and the precision legal work demands, plus how certified and sworn translation actually work.
Legal translation rewards precision and consistency because its words carry legal force: a mistranslated clause can change what a contract obliges or lose a case. Learn the field's defining insight, that you translate between legal systems and not just languages; how to handle concepts with no equivalent; the precision and defined-term consistency legal text demands; and how certified and sworn translation give a translation official standing and place real responsibility on you. Enter the niche credibly and defensibly.
What you'll learn
- Handle common legal document types and conventions
- Translate between source and target legal systems, not just languages
- Handle untranslatable legal concepts responsibly
- Maintain the precision and defined-term consistency legal work demands
- Understand certified and sworn translation and their responsibility
- Enter the niche credibly, confidentially, and defensibly
Course content
- 1. Why legal translation is its own discipline (14 min)
- 2. You translate between legal systems, not just languages (15 min)
- 3. Handling untranslatable concepts (15 min)
- 4. Precision, consistency, and the conventions of legal text (15 min)
- 5. Certified and sworn translation (15 min)
- 6. Confidentiality, process, and entering the niche (15 min)
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