Translation of Modern English Law Terms

Objective. The objective of the article is to consider features of translation of modern terms of law from English into Ukrainian; to analyze ways of translating the terms, namely: uninterrupted borrowing of the term, method of interpretation, transformational method and calculations. Methods. The main scientific results are obtained using a set of general scientific and special methods of research, namely: systematization and generalization, theoretical generalization, analysis and synthesis. Results. The article is devoted to peculiarities of translation of modern law terms from English into Russian. The author presents the theoretical material, concerning the difficulties and methods of terms translation. The various existing ways of terms translation are discussed, namely borrowing of term without translation, interpretation method, transformation method and calquing, with attention to both mono- and polylexemic terms (terms-phrases). A classification of possible difficulties and peculiarities of translation of the law terms from English into Russian is given (many ways of translation, ambiguity of transformational constructions, polysemy of terms and the contextual dependence of the term). In addition, the author raises the issue on the translation of euphemisms, and also examples of terms based on metaphor and metonymy are given. Special attention is paid to the translation of terms-word combinations, which now encompasses the largest part of the difficulties in translation. Theoretical arguments are supported by examples of English terms and their equivalents in the Ukrainian language, taken from authoritative legal dictionaries. It is shown that, despite the variety of existing ways of terms translation, the law terms often cause difficulties due to their specific nature, as well as the dynamic nature of the terminology of law.