UNIcert III/1 Englisch der Rechtswissenschaft - English for Law - Einzelansicht

Check that all course times for the group for which you want to apply fit into your schedule. Attendance at the first meeting of the course is mandatory to keep the place in the class.

Voraussetzung für alle Gruppen: Between 70 and 100 points on the placement test or completion of UNIcert II/2, English for Academic Purposes

Gruppe 1: Rebecca van Es

Classes for this group start on Monday 7 November. Additional classes / work will be arranged by the teacher to make up for the classes missed in the first two weeks of the semester.

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 2, Gruppe 3, Gruppe 4: 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 online exchange 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 5, 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

Classes for this group start on Monday 7 November. Additional classes / work will be arranged by the teacher to make up for the classes missed in the first two weeks of the semester.

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.