UNIcert III/1 Englisch der Rechtswissenschaft - Einzelansicht

Gruppe 1: Tom Heaven

This class has already taken place, do not sign up for this class. You will not get a place, as it has already taken place, in the past.

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.

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 and elements of international public law.

Language support is offered during the course to students attending Professor Zimmermann's IHL/ICL lectures. If you plan to attend the IHL/ICL lectures, please contact Tom Heaven once your have registered for your English course: heaven@uni-potsdam.de

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, Gruppe 4: 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.