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— PAGE \* Arabic 1 — 法律英语入门教学内容 法律英语入门（中英双语）教学内容选课人数37人任课教师韩忠全  Unit 1 Introduction to Law  TextⅠWhat Is Law?  Dictionary work  Evict marijuana jurisprudence admonition justify enforce pretentious temporal legitimacy coercion conformity avenge implement contend induce administrative litigation adjudication penal compensatory therapeutic conciliatory restitution debtor creditor accusatory deviant sanction Pre-reading questions  1.How do you understand law?  2.What do you think law deals with?  3.Why is law important in our social life?  Definition of law  Julius Stone: law is necessarily an abstract term.  Cardozo: a principle of conduct so established as to justify a prediction with reasonably certainty that it will be enforced by the courts if its authority is challenged. Holmes: judges make the law on the basis of past experience.  Max Weber: an order will be called law if it is externally guaranteed by the probability that coercion (physical or psychological), to bring about conformity or avenge violation, will be applied by a staff of people holding themselves especially ready for that purpose.  Donald black: law is essentially governmental social control.  Four styles of social control are represented in law  Penal  Compensatory  Therapeutic  Conciliatory  Hart: law can be analyzed sociologically as a method of doing something.  Exercises  Translation  1. As a kind of rule or norm for conduct, either customs or laws are both social ideology and can not be separated from practical experience. The law is not only a set of behavioral rules, but also a means to clarify responsibility and promote social integrity (justice).  2. The laws are some rules made by the State, ensured to be implemented by the state force. They regulate the rights and obligations and are of universal effect to the society as a whole.  TextⅡfunctions of law  Resolving disputes  Providin