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

                              4. semester, akademický rok 2009 - 2010


Week 1

1. – 5. 3.


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.

Doporučená:

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

Riley, Alison. English for law. London : Macmillan Press, 1991.

Black, Henry Campbell. Blackův právnický slovník. Praha : Victoria Publishing, 1993.


Examination requirements:

3 parts: continuous assessment, written part, oral part

Continuous assessment:  active participation in class, attendance, topic presentation – written or
oral.

Written part: 60 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

- listening

Oral part:

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, Freedom of speech and expression, The
rights of citizens, Human rights, Enforcing the law, EU institutions and legislation.



Freedom of speech and expression:

Powell: 97-103


Week 2

8. – 12.3.

Freedom of speech and expression:

Powell: 97-103


Weeks 3 and 4

15. – 27. 3.

The rights of citizens:

Powell: 104-108

Chromá I: U5, U6


Weeks 5 and 6

29. 3. – 9. 4.

Human rights:

Powell: 109-114

Chromá I: U7 (pp. 271 – 292)


Weeks 7 and 8

12. – 23. 4.

Enforcing the law:

Powell: 115-120

Chromá II: U19, U21


Weeks 9 and 10

26. 4. – 7. 5.

EU institutions and legislation:

Chromá II : U22, U23


Weeks 11 and 12

10. – 21. 5.

Work with authentic materials;

Academic skills - presentations either written or oral