The translation of English legal texts into Arabic

Dr. Abdel Hadi Professor of legal translation University of Geneva Maher.AbdelHadi@unige.ch

Abstract The translation of legal texts is a discipline in itself, which seeks to determine applicable rules of methodology. It gives rise to a great number of problems. Firstly it raises queries of a general nature relevant to general rules of translation with which translators should be well familiar, irrespective of their specialty. Secondly, this category of translations requires special legal knowledge of administrative and judicial institutions in the country of the source language and knowledge of the same institutions in the country of the target language.1 This knowledge is qualified by traductologists as "pre-knowledge", an essential prerequisite for specialized translators. It corresponds to Louis Truffaut's II commandment.

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