《法律案例阅读》课程教学大纲.pdfVIP

《法律案例阅读》教学大纲 课程中文名称：法律案例阅读 课程英文名称：Selected　Readings　on　Legal　Cases 课程号 课程属性：专业选修课 开课学期：第五学期 总学时：３2 学分： 先修课程：前四学期必修课程 面向对象：英语语言文学研究所及翻译研究所本科生 开课院部：外国语学院翻译研究所 一、 课程教学目标： 《法律英语案例阅读》是为外国语学院法律英语专业和法律翻译专业开设的选 修课程，也是使学生大量接触英语案例材料和培养阅读法律文献能力的一门实 践课。教学目的是培养学生的法律英语阅读理解能力和提高学生的阅读速度， 并通过阅读案例，扩大法律词汇和术语，不断积累各种语言知识，增强法律英 语语感，吸收法律英语和法律文化背景知识，熟悉相关英美法律制度。该课注 重对法律案例的整篇文章的理解，分析文章的篇章结构，引导学生欣赏精彩的 法庭推理和辩论，提高思辨能力和写作能力。 二、 课程教学内容与学习目标 学时：32 知识单元1：Intentional torts 参考学时：８学时 学习内容： A tort is some kind of wrongful act that causes harm to someone else. This definition covers a wide range of actions, and the legal field of torts is split up into many different subcategories. One of the ways torts are split up is by the mental state of the person that does the wrongdoing. When the person that acts wrongly actually intends to perform the action, it becomes what is known as an intentional tort. The easiest example of an intentional tort is a punch to the face. In that case, the actor intended to make a fist and slam it into his victims face, and the actor also intended to harm his victim. However, the person who performs an intentional tort need not intend the harm. For example, if you surprise someone with an unstable heart condition, and the fright causes that person to have a heart attack, you commit an intentional tort, even if you did not intend to scare that person into a heart attack. １. Assault and Battery Assault and battery are legal terms where assault is the threat of doing bodily harm and battery is the infliction of unwanted touching (battering), though physical injury is not necessary in order to prove battery. Insulting or provocative words without threat, no matter how repugnant, do not constitute assault. Assault and battery usually constitute a single offense and are co