List of courses in foreign languages
Legal English III
- Details
- Category: Integrated undergraduate/graduate university Study of Law
Year of study | ECTS | Language 1 | Language2 | |
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II | 4 | English |
Course coordinator
Assist. prof. Martina Bajčić |
Course objective:
This course focuses on legal English. Some of the objectives of this course are to demarcate the notion of legal English (common law vs. continental legal system vs. EU English-Eurolect) and enable students to use English for the purpose of legal communication. Special attention is devoted to legal terminology.
Course content:
- Criminal law (crime; criminal liability)
- Death and the law (abortion, death penalty and physician-assisted suicide)
- Family law (marriage, divorce)
- Tort law (case law analysis; torts in the popular culture)
- Contract law (case law analysis)