《法律专业英语》课程教学大纲.pdfVIP

《法律专业英语》教学大纲 课程中文名称：法律专业英语 课程英文名称：Legal English 课程号：108010352 课程属性：专业必修课 开课学期：秋 总学时：32学时（课堂授课学时：32学时） 学分：2 面向对象：法学专业实验班二年级 开课院/部（室/所）：外国语学院 一、课程教学目标 本课程法学院法学实验班二年级学生的专业必修课程。 本课程的教学目标是：1、了解美国国家法律的概况、特征；2 、了解普通法系国家的法律 概况与特点；3、掌握法律英语的特有语法、词汇；4 、了解法律英语的语篇及体裁；5、掌 握 法律英语文章的阅读技巧。 本课程旨在通过立论教学使学生掌握法律英语知识和系统的普通法知识，学习法律英 语专业词汇，了解法律英语的语言特点，提高阅读能力和语言运用能力，同时培养一定的 翻译能力，从而提高学生学习和研究国外法律资料的能力,为他们将来从事法律专业工作奠 定基础。 二、课程教学内容与学习目标 （一）理论教学：32学时 知识单元1: American Legal System 参考学时：2学时 学习内容： 1. Main features of legal English (1) Use of terms of art. (2) Extensive use of words and phrases derived from French and Latin. (3) Use of ordinary words in apparently peculiar contexts. (4) Lack of punctuation. (5) Use of doublets and triplets. (6) Use of unfamiliar pro-forms. (7) Use of pronominal adverbs. (8) -er, -or, and -ee name endings. (9) Use of phrasal verbs. 2. Introduction to common law system: (1) Case Law — Judge-made Law The decisions of judges, or of other officials empowered by the constitution or laws of a political entity to hear and decide controversies, create case law. Case law suggests a particular decision, or a collection of particular decisions, generate law—that is, rules of general application. Case law processes require careful analysis, matching and distinguishing of the facts of cases. (2) Doctrine of Precedent or Principle of Stare Decisis Past judicial decisions are formally and generally binding for the disposition of factually similar present controversies. A judicial decision is a precedent, and so generally binding, only in future cases involving the same material facts. (3) Law and Equity In everyday English, equity means “fairness”. In legal English it has a slightly different meaning although it is still based on an idea