UNIcert III/1 Englisch der Rechtswissenschaft - Einzelansicht

Voraussetzung für alle Gruppen: Between 70 and 100 points on the placement test

Gruppe 1: Tom Heaven

This intensive course has already started. No new enrollments will be accepted for this course.

A new intensive course might be offered in February/ March.

Gruppe 2: Tom Heaven

Students will improve their ability to communicate clearly in different legal contexts, practise explaining law-related ideas and receive support in presenting their own ideas and knowledge. Extracts from various contexts, such as legislation, decisions, journals and text books as well as newspaper articles, podcasts and videos will be used. An 90 minute exchange session with students from an international university is planned.

By the end of the course, students will be in a better position to use English to explain the German legal system and understand and explain English language legal systems.

Material for this course will be available on Moodle. Students will be given access to the Moodle course in or before the first lesson.

Gruppe 3: Tom Heaven (Class with online exchange project)

Students will improve their ability to communicate clearly in different legal contexts, practise explaining law-related ideas and receive support in presenting their own ideas and knowledge. Extracts from various contexts, such as legislation, decisions, journals and text books as well as newspaper articles, podcasts and videos will be used.

It is hoped that a key component of this class will be a six part online exchange project with students from the University of Georgia, Tbilisi. These six classes will take part online (from home), probably in November/ December. In the final session students will give presentations with their counterparts from Georgia. Time will be made for preparing presentations in class and students will be given any necessary support outside class. The presentations will form part of the the assessment for the course. The exchange still needs to be confirmed. More details will follow in the first class.

By the end of the course, students will be in a better position to use English to explain the German legal system and understand and explain English language legal systems.

Material for this course will be available on Moodle. Students will be given access to the Moodle course in or before the first lesson.

Gruppe 5: Rebecca van Es

All material for this course will be available on Moodle and the teacher will contact participants before the first class to give them access to it.

The course will introduce participants to aspects of legal systems and laws in English-speaking countries (South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States) and help them to explain aspects of their own legal system. Classes will include discussion of legal issues in various countries, engaging with legal content taken from cases, legislation, podcasts, articles and videos, and practising communication with clients and colleagues in a legal context.

Gruppe 4, Gruppe 6: Peter Harvey

All material for this group is sent out as email attachments. Students are asked to give the lecturer their preferred email address.

This course will look at the development of the common law across the English-speaking world and how it has grown up differently from German or French law. We shall consider particularly the six ‘core subjects:’ Crime, Tort, Contract, Equity, Constitutional Law and Land. We shall however also spend a good deal of time on the task of explaining German law in English, concentrating on those areas of law with which students are familiar in their German law courses.

Gruppe 7: Rebecca van Es

This intensive course has already started. No new enrollments will be accepted for this course.

A new intensive course might be offered in February/ March.