PROSÍM, ABY SE DO PŘEDMĚTU ZAPISOVALI STUDENTKY A STUDENTI, KTEŘÍ MAJÍ O PROBLEMATIKU PŘEKLADU OPRAVDU ZÁJEM, JSOU PŘIPRAVENI SE PRAVIDELNĚ NA SEMINÁŘ PŘIPRAVOVAT A VYPRACOVAT ZADANÉ ÚKOLY

ONLINE PLATFORM: MS-TEAMS CLASSES TO BE HELD IN REGULARLY SCHEDULED TIME SLOTS; handouts and other materials on moodle

Unit 1

* Basic theoretical issues in legal translation: role of the knowledge of source law and target law

Unit 2

* Approaches to interpretation of the source text (How many legal "Englishes" are there?); conceptual analysis; translation of Czech phrases expressing presumptions

Unit 3

* Identification of translational difficulties; role of dictionaries; general part of the Civil Code, statute of limitations; prescription; lapse of claim

Unit 4

* Approaches to the translation of terminology; family law

Unit 5

* Synonymy in terminology; polysemy in terminology; property law I; Czech "poručník" v. "opatrovník" in English

Unit 6

property law II, ownership

Unit 7

acquisition of ownership by succession

Unit 8

basics of obligations

Unit 9

types of contract

Unit 10

liability - based on fault, no-fault, contractual / non-contractual obligations

* Translating legal realia;

* Making sense in legal translation

all topics based upon the new Czech Civil Code and derived texts