Angličtina pro právníky I.4 / English for Lawyers I.4

                              4. semester, akademický rok 2013 - 2014


                                         3.3. – 23.5.2014

Literatura:

Povinná:

Studijní materiály v IS MU složka Compulsory literature

Chromá, Marta. Anglicko-český právnický slovník. English-Czech law dictionary. Leda, 1997.

Chromá, Marta.  Česko-anglický právnický slovník. Czech -English law dictionary. Leda, 2001.

Chromá, Marta. New Introduction to Legal English. Volume II. Univerzita Karlova, 2003 nebo 2007.

Chromá, Marta. New Introduction to Legal English. Volume I. Univerzita Karlova, 2003 nebo 2007.

Chromá, Marta et al. New Introduction to Legal English, Revised Edition. Volume I. Univerzita
Karlova, 2011.

Chromá, Marta et al. New Introduction to Legal English, Revised Edition.. Volume II. Univerzita
Karlova, 2011.


Doporučená:

Krois-Lindner, Matt Firth and Translegal. Introduction to International Legal English. CUP, 2008.

Krois-Lindner and TransLegal. International Legal English. CUP, 2006.

Powell, Richard. Law Today. 1. ed. Harlow : Longman, 1993.


Požadavky ke zkoušce:

3 parts: continuous assessment + poslech, písemná a ústní část


Continuous assessment: docházka, aktivní účast v seminářích, úspěšné prezentování odborného tématu
před publikem


Písemná část: 45 minutes

- controlled cloze test (in the first part deleted expressions will be given in Czech and students
will translate them to suit the context, in the second part there will be underlined expressions in
English to be translated into Czech)

- providing definitions

- language focus exercises (e.g. sentence transformation, word-formation, prepositions)

- reading comprehension


Ústní část:

discussion related to the topic chosen

conversation topic - Law studies, Faculty of law, Masaryk University

terminology based on prescribed texts

Topics: What is law, Sources of modern law, Civil and public law, Judicial institutions, Lawyers at
work, Contracts, Criminal law, Torts, Trusts, Land law, Running a business, The law and the family,
The law and consumer, Employment law, Intellectual property, Constitutional law and the rights of
citizens, Public international law and human rights, Enforcing the law: criminal procedure,
Enforcing the law: civil procedure, The law of the European Union.


Sylabus kurzu:
 1. Constitutional law and the rights of citizens, Powell 104-107, Chromá I, Units 5-6
 2. Public international law and human rights, Powell 109-113, Chromá I (Unit7)
 3. Enforcing the law: criminal procedure, Powell 115-120, Chromá II (Unit 20)
 4. Enforcing the law: civil procedure, Chromá II (Unit 18)
 5. The law of the European Union. Chromá II (Units 21-23)
 6. Presentation skills
 7. Presenting a topic