ID:
GIU0679
Duration (hours):
50
CFU:
8
SSD:
DIRITTO PRIVATO COMPARATO
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (26/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims to provide students with the cultural and methodological tools to deal with the translation of legal texts. At the end of the course students are expected to have learned the theoretical tools of legal translation and the first foundations of the practice.
Course Prerequisites
Students in the Bachelor of Arts in Languages are strongly advised to attend the seminars on topics related to translation and specialised languages offered as part of the orientation activities:
-Course on basic translation skills
-Course on the critical use of specialised sectorial languages
-Laboratory on translation professions and approaches.
The historical evolution of legal languages is the subject of a specific course of the three-year degree in Interlinguistic and Intercultural Mediation ("Comparative Legal Terminology"). Where the need arises, based on the composition of the student population, the basic notions of this course will be opportunely and briefly taken up again during the lessons.
-Course on basic translation skills
-Course on the critical use of specialised sectorial languages
-Laboratory on translation professions and approaches.
The historical evolution of legal languages is the subject of a specific course of the three-year degree in Interlinguistic and Intercultural Mediation ("Comparative Legal Terminology"). Where the need arises, based on the composition of the student population, the basic notions of this course will be opportunely and briefly taken up again during the lessons.
Teaching Methods
The course takes place in the first semester through a total of 50 hours of lessons.
Teaching is articulated differently in the theoretical part and in the practical part
In the theoretical part:
- ex cathedra lessons to illustrate the topics of the course, with the support of power-point presentions containing summary sheets of the key concepts of the course
- analysis of materials that will be made available to students and discussed in class, in order to allow those in-depth analysis necessary to take a critical perspective towards the whole subject
In the practical part:
- concrete examination of the problematic aspects posed by the translation of some specific legal terms, illustrated also through the use of synoptic tables
- translation of materials and in particular of some contractual models.
The lessons involve the students who will be invited to actively intervene in the discussion, in order to stimulate reasoning, critical analysis and communication-relational skills.
Teaching is articulated differently in the theoretical part and in the practical part
In the theoretical part:
- ex cathedra lessons to illustrate the topics of the course, with the support of power-point presentions containing summary sheets of the key concepts of the course
- analysis of materials that will be made available to students and discussed in class, in order to allow those in-depth analysis necessary to take a critical perspective towards the whole subject
In the practical part:
- concrete examination of the problematic aspects posed by the translation of some specific legal terms, illustrated also through the use of synoptic tables
- translation of materials and in particular of some contractual models.
The lessons involve the students who will be invited to actively intervene in the discussion, in order to stimulate reasoning, critical analysis and communication-relational skills.
Assessment Methods
The methods for verifying learning consist of
-a written test for attenting students exams in January-February,
-an oral test in the other cases,
with the attribution of the final grade in thirtieths, concerning the entire program of the course.
The tests will include theoretical questions for the theoretical module and translation of a legal terms and short texts from English for the practical module.
For the evaluation of learning, the final grade is expressed out of thirty and takes into account the accuracy and quality of the answers (50%), the capacity for critical evaluation and argumentation (30%), as well as the ownership of language (20% ).
-a written test for attenting students exams in January-February,
-an oral test in the other cases,
with the attribution of the final grade in thirtieths, concerning the entire program of the course.
The tests will include theoretical questions for the theoretical module and translation of a legal terms and short texts from English for the practical module.
For the evaluation of learning, the final grade is expressed out of thirty and takes into account the accuracy and quality of the answers (50%), the capacity for critical evaluation and argumentation (30%), as well as the ownership of language (20% ).
Contents
The course is therefore divided into a theoretical and a practical part: the first is aimed at illustrating the problems of legal translation and the main legal concepts of contract law and public law from a comparative perspective; the second part is intended to provide the methodological and procedural tools to deal with the legal translation of certain documents.
Course Language
ITALIAN
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