MP407Zk Language I. - French for Lawyers

Faculty of Law
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Kateřina Sedláčková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Daniela Veškrnová (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Kateřina Sedláčková, Ph.D.
Language Centre, Faculty of Law Division – Language Centre
Contact Person: Lenka Pavlíková
Supplier department: Language Centre, Faculty of Law Division – Language Centre
Timetable of Seminar Groups
MP407Zk/01: Mon 29. 2. to Fri 20. 5. Mon 16:40–18:10 258, K. Sedláčková
MP407Zk/02: Mon 29. 2. to Fri 20. 5. Mon 11:10–12:40 031, D. Veškrnová
MP407Zk/03: No timetable has been entered into IS. D. Veškrnová
Prerequisites
MP307Z French for Lawyers
The students are supposed to have attended and passed successfully three semesters of the course French for Lawyers I.1, I.2, I.3.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)
Course objectives
The main objectives can be summarized as follows: - to be introduced to legal French - to learn specific features of the French administrative and legal system, to get new knowledge and new communicative competences and oral skills, in particular understanding both written and spoken texts. - end of the course students will be able to understand texts on specific topics and explain the key concepts in the following areas: Human Rights - History and Current Situation, Refugee Law, Refugee Status in France, Mechanism for Human Rights Protection. They will be able to use this information in discussions on specific topics, to explain and to support their arguments. Using acquired knowledge students will be able to interpret unknown texts. Students will sit a mock test as designed for the Impact project.
Syllabus
  • Exploring and working with the texts relating to the following fields: Modern French Landmark Case Law. Important Lawyers in Modern French Judiciary (R. Badinter). Historical Trials (Joan of Arc) International Human Rights - Declaration, History and Current Situation, Mechanism for Human Rights Protection, Judicature, Practice of the courts, translation and analisis. Lexis and grammar of the language for specific purposes.
Literature
  • Šedová, Marie. Cahier d'exercices de grammaire pour les juristes. 1. vyd. Brno : Masarykova univerzita, 1995. 62 s. ISBN 80-210-1208-0.
  • Šedová Marie: Les droits de l homme
Teaching methods
The instruction will be held in the form of seminars, two teaching units a week. Students will receive teaching materials for self-study in advance. The materials will be analyzed and interpreted during seminars. Acquired skills will be evaluated by means of exercises; an individual exercise in the form of an on-line drill coursebook. Instruction techniques: analysis of legal texts, reading comprehension, listening comprehension, independent speaking.
Assessment methods
The course is taught in the form of seminars. It is ended by a an examination consisting of a written part and an oral part. Examination admittance requirements: - attendance and active participation in seminars (80%) Examination: - written part – innovating test Impact KA4 (listening, reading, writing, grammar, terminology - oral part – explication and discussion on legal topics Topics for examination: Administrative Organisation in France, The President and Government, The Parliament, Elections, Essential Concepts in Law and Civil Law, Family Law, Organisation of Judiciary in France, Administrative Judiciary, Common Judiciary, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Familly Law, Business Law, Contract, Human Rights, Refugee Law.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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