The Importance of Legal Translation

With the development of modern society, legal awareness is increasingly taking root in people's minds, and the exchange between countries is becoming more and more important. In this era, the combination of the two, legal translation, has become particularly important. Today, let's explore the importance of legal translation from three aspects.

1. Legal provisions vary from country to country, leading to ambiguities in cases involving cross-border e-commerce or cross-border crimes where different nations intersect. At this point, translation becomes crucial. If key points are inaccurately translated in a case, it will definitely lead to biases and impacts in case handling, which may eventually evolve into miscarriages of justice. To prevent this from happening, we need to focus on the difficulties in legal translation and the potential linguistic differences between countries in case handling, and strive for accurate translation to avoid affecting the content of the case due to translation biases.

2. There are also differences in case analysis between countries. We must not only accurately interpret the provisions but also pay attention to the translation of case analysis. As we all know, whether it is provisions, cases, or judgments, they are all very rigorous at the legal level and do not allow any mistakes. This also imposes a huge constraint on legal translators. While translating, they must adhere to a rigorous legal attitude and spirit, avoiding imprecise or inexact wording in the analysis of cases. They should use formal language and, after understanding the case, translate the case analysis without personal emotions, ensuring fairness and impartiality at the translation level. This is a difficult point but also a key point in legal translation.

3. The legal systems between countries also differ. China's legal system is broadly composed of seven departments under the leadership of the Constitution: constitutional law and related laws, civil and commercial law, administrative law, economic law, social law, criminal law, and procedural and non-procedural law, including three levels: laws, administrative regulations, and local regulations. The United States, however, is different from China. The United States established a written federal constitution at the beginning of its founding, but both the federal government and the states have their own legal systems. The federal government has no unified legislative power except in areas such as national defense, foreign affairs, fiscal policy, international trade, and interstate commerce; criminal and civil legislation powers basically belong to the states. Therefore, at this level of translation, we still need to establish a framework of connection with the law.

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