SOC 041  Introduction to Legal  English for Erasmus Students

                                                                                        Autumn 2015




 1. Introduction, syllabus, requirements, aims, literature, etc.

      What is law?


 2. The legal system: bodies of law, sources of law – common law, equity


 3. The legal system:  sources of law –types of laws


 4. Explaining what a law says and classification of law


 5. Types of courts: civil courts, persons in court and documents in court


 6. Types of courts: criminal courts and persons in court


 7. Legalese and legal Latin


 8. A career in the law, lawyers at work, legal education


 9. A lawyer´s CV, law firm structure and its description


10. Practice areas and law firm culture


11. presentations


12. presentations