2024/2025
Английский язык для специальных целей. Английский для юристов - 1
Статус:
Факультатив
Кто читает:
Школа иностранных языков
Когда читается:
1, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Борзова Надежда Александровна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The program is for the 1st-year students (Bachelor's degree program "Jurisprudence" and "Digital Lawyer""). The program is designed to develop foreign-language communicative and professional competencies that is based on the “Concept of the Development of English-language Communicative Competence of HSE Students ” and adheres to the "Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessment of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics”. The course is focused on basic professional terminology and knowledge of legal professions, litigation and arbitration, criminal law and company law within the framework of Anglo-Saxon and American law. The course supports both classroom and independent learning (online course). There are no blocking points of assessment.
Learning Objectives
- - to improve student’s ability to read and understand law journal articles, commercial legislation, legal texts, legal correspondence;
- - to increase student’s comprehension of spoken English (legal topics in lectures, presentations, interviews, discussions, etc);
- - to strengthen student’s speaking and writing skills in a range of situations typical of the study of law and the practice of law (client interview, act out in court etc.);
- - to develop an understanding of the law and consolidate language skills;
- - to engage in designing a contract or employment contract;
- - to read or listen to legal articles, letters, proposals, client interviews or presentations.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- One knows the general overview of university law courses as its starting point and practical skills required for careers in law, and different routes to legal profession;
- One distinguishes the main types of legal professions and lawyers, especially in common law countries;
- One knows the main areas of law in common law;
- One distinguishes legal terminology and the context of its use; uses legal vocabulary more accurately, concisely and effectively;
- One communicates legal concepts and information confidently and easily;
- One improves the presentation skills; and uses legal English in discussions and presentations confident in their ability and knowledge.
- One distinguishes legal terminology and the context of its use;
- One uses legal vocabulary more accurately, concisely and effectively;
- One communicates legal concepts and information confidently;
- One organizes and presents ideas and statements in a clear, logical and appropriate way.
- One distinguishes crimes and torts (civil wrongs);
- One knows the range of crimes and their categories;
- One distinguishes street crimes and white-collar crimes, identity theft and its types;
- One knows the purpose of punishment and types of punishment;
- One uses legal vocabulary more accurately, and concisely;
- One organizes and presents ideas and statements in a clear, logical and appropriate way; and detects logical fallacies in arguments.
- One knows the factors how to choose a form of business; their advantages and disadvantages and disadvantages of each form;
- One uses legal vocabulary more accurately, and concisely.
- One organizes and presents ideas and statements in a clea and logical way.
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 2nd module0.3 * Final Assessment + 0.25 * Independent Work Assessment + 0.2 * Oral Assessment + 0.25 * Written Assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- An introduction to international arbitration, Bantekas, I., 2015
- An introduction to international criminal law and procedure, Cryer, R., 2019
- Carsten Gerner-Beuerle, & Michael Anderson Schillig. (2019). Comparative Company Law. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2227470
- Company law, Dine, J., 2005
- Gary B. Born, & Peter B. Rutledge. (2007). International Civil Litigation in United States Courts. Aspen Publishers.
- Legal English : how to understand and master the language of law, McKay, W. R., 2011
- Лезёва, Т. И. Essential Legal English: Civil Law : учебно-методическое пособие / Т. И. Лезёва, Н. И. Еремкина. — Москва : РТУ МИРЭА, 2022. — 112 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/256613 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
- Туктарова Г.М. - Английский язык для юридических специальностей: лексический минимум. Legal English Vocabulary Book - Российский государственный университет правосудия - 2020 - ISBN: 978-5-93916-790-1 - Текст электронный // ЭБС ZNANIUM - URL: https://znanium.com/catalog/document?id=364403
- Устинова, Е. В., Юридический английский для международного права = Legal English for International Law : учебное пособие / Е. В. Устинова, Ю. А. Егорова, С. И. Кузьминская. — Москва : КноРус, 2022. — 141 с. — ISBN 978-5-406-09094-7. — URL: https://book.ru/book/943599 (дата обращения: 27.08.2024). — Текст : электронный.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- 9781782256786 - Beaumont, Paul; Danov, Mihail; Trimmings, Katarina; Yüksel, Burcu - Cross-Border Litigation in Europe - 2017 - Hart Publishing - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1612374 - nlebk - 1612374
- Andenas,Mads, & Wooldridge,Frank. (2012). European Comparative Company Law. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.b.cup.cbooks.9781107407640
- Assessing lawyers' ethics : a practitioners' guide, Evans, A., 2011
- Cahn, A., & Donald, D. C. (2010). Comparative Company Law : Text and Cases on the Laws Governing Corporations in Germany, the UK and the USA. Cambridge: Cambridge eText. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=324117
- Civil litigation in a globalising world, , 2012
- Civil litigation in comparative context, , 2017
- Civil litigation, Beecher, G., 2000
- Cole, T., & Ortolani, P. (2020). Understanding International Arbitration. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2275042
- Common law legal English and grammar : a contextual approach, Riley, A., 2014
- Company Law : Fundamental Principles, Griffin, S., 2000
- Company law : fundamental principles, Griffin, S., 2006
- Company law, Dine, J., 2009
- Comparative company law : text and cases on the laws governing corporations in Germany, the UK and the USA, Cahn, A., 2018
- Criminal law, Elliott, C., 2006
- Criminal Law, Scheb, J. M., 2006
- EU criminal law and justice, Fletcher, M., 2008
- Foreign law in civil litigation : a comparative and functional analysis, Geeroms, S., 2004
- Handbook of arbitration practice, Bernstein, R., 2000
- International criminal law, Cassese, A., 2003
- Lawyers' ethics : contemporary dilemmas, , 2017
- Lawyers' Liabilities, Evans, H., 1996
- Legal English for University Students : учебное пособие / О. А. Чепак, Е. М. Каурова, М. В. Черниговский [и др.]. — Улан-Удэ : БГУ, 2016. — 200 с. — ISBN 978-5-9793-0951-4. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/166866 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
- Ottley, M. (2013). Company Law (Vol. 8th ed). Abingdon, Oxon [UK]: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=513577
- Ramona Elisabeta Cîrlig. (2019). The arbitral tribunal’s authority to determine the applicable law in international commercial arbitration: patterns and trends. Juridical Tribune, (1), 18. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsdoj&AN=edsdoj.f43e6037d98b41f380c06d53fa058962
- Английский для юристов : базовый курс: учеб. пособие для вузов, Гуманова, Ю. Л., 2002
- Лезёва, Т. И. English for Law Students: Criminal Law : учебно-методическое пособие / Т. И. Лезёва, Е. Н. Арсентьева, Н. Г. Мишина. — Москва : РТУ МИРЭА, 2022. — 190 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/265769 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
- Попов Е.Б. - Legal English: Advanced Level: Английский язык для юристов: Углублённый курс. Книга первая - НИЦ ИНФРА-М - 2017 - ISBN: - Текст электронный // ЭБС ZNANIUM - URL: https://znanium.com/catalog/document?id=47460