Syllabus
The course covers the following chapters of Volume II of the New Introduction to Legal English by Marta Chromá et al. (Praha: Karolinum. 2016): 13. Law of Torts - General Part 14.
Law of Torts - Special Part 15. Company Law 17.
Labour Law - Employment 18. Civil Procedure
Annotation
For students who have commenced their study before the 2017-2018 academic year.
Legal English is a four-semester elective common foundations course. Its aim is to introduce the students to the issues of the professional language, to introduce to them terminology of fundamental branches of law in individual language areas, to provide them with fundamental information about the given legal system and compare legal Czech with terms and expressions of foreign law. The basic method of teaching consists in working with all sorts of professional texts with the aim of activating the acquired legal language and being able to inform about fundamental aspects of Czech law in a foreign language.
Legal English III (HV0313) is completed with a colloquium in the form of written test.