- • Start-up
- • Vocabulary
- •What is Law?
- •What is law?
- • Asking Questions
- • Extend your skills
- • Jokes and Puns
- • Start-up
- • Vocabulary
- •Islamic legal system
- • Focus on grammar. Passive vs. Active
- • Extend your skills
- •Russian and American legal systems: comparative analysis
- • Jokes and Puns
- • Start-up
- • Vocabulary exercise 1. Fill in the table according to the given example. Not all the forms will be used for each word. Use dictionary, if necessary. Translate the words into Russian.
- •Exercise 2. Choose the correct word from the list to complete each sentence. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •Exercise 16. Read the text given below. Make up questions that may lead to further classroom discussion. Ask your questions to your classmates.
- • Extend your skills
- • Paraphrasing
- •Basic Paraphrasing Techniques
- • Jokes and Puns
- • Start-up Discuss the following questions:
- • Reading and language study Classification of Offenses
- •Intoxication
- • Extend your skills
- • Vocabulary exercise 1. Fill in the table according to the given example. Not all the forms will be used for each word. Use dictionary, if necessary. Translate the words into Russian.
- • Reading and language study Elements of Crime
- • Legalese
- • Extend your skills
- •The Causes of Crime
- • Start-up
- • Vocabulary exercise 1. Fill in the table according to the given example. Not all the forms will be used for each word. Use dictionary if necessary. Translate the words into Russian.
- • Reading and language study Torts
- •A Comparison of Criminal and Tort Law
- •The Law of Torts
- • Start-up
- • Vocabulary
- • Reading and language study How to Become a Lawyer
- • Extend your skills
- • Additional Material
- •Honor Сode
- •Exercise 18. Read the story the new lawyer by Mike Wiecek. Do the tasks and answer the questions given below. The New Lawyer
- • Vocabulary
- • Reading and language study Legal Professions
- • Jokes and Puns
- • Additional Material
- •Conclusion
- • Useful Language
- •Good luck with your presentations!
- •Great lawyers, great speeches Additional materials for reading and summarizing
- • I have a dream
- • Inaugural address
- •List of reference books
Extend your skills
EXERCISE 13. Paraphrase the sentences given below.
Courses such as composition, which develop a good facility with language may also be useful.
The most important things college student can develop, are good study habits and discipline necessary to the demands of law school.
By asking questions about legal concepts and principles, the professor challenges students to articulate and defend their positions.
Known as the Socratic method, this dialogue presents students with questions, to which there are no easy answers, regarding some of the most complex legal and social problems.
EXERCISE 14. Do a mind map and write a summary of the text HOW TO BECOME A LAWYER. Present your mind map and a summary in class.
EXERCISE 15. The following task will test you ability to analyze the relationships among events and to draw logical conclusions from the given information.
These are given conditions:
Roe, Doe, Jones, and Fred frequent a certain bar where Smith has been shot.
Roe and Smith are never in the bar together.
Jones and Smith are always in the bar together.
Either Doe or Jones, but not both, will be in the bar.
When Fred is in the bar, either Smith or Roe, but not both, will be in the bar too.
Who were the witnesses to Smith’s shooting?
a. Roe, Doe, and Fred
b. Jones and Fred
d. Doe, Jones, and Fred
c. Only Fred
e. Only Jones.
EXERCISE 16. Study the list of skills a lawyer should possess. Number each skill according to how important you think it is. Think of some other skills you believe are essential to be successful in a competitive professional world.
academic ability
written and oral communication skills
flexibility and the ability to adapt and manage change
numeracy skills
interpersonal skills
personal effectiveness
IT (Information Technologies) skills
professional responsibility
a commitment to continuing professional development
Jokes and Puns
QUESTION: What does a failing law student and an alcoholic have in common?
ANSWER: Neither of them can pass the bar.
The lawyer’s son wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps, so he went to law school. He graduated with honors, and then went home to join his father’s firm. At the end of his first day at work he rushed into his father’s office, and said, “Father, father, in one day I broke the accident case that you have been working on for ten years!” His father responded, “You idiot, we lived on the funding of that case for ten years!”
Additional Material
EXERCISE 17. Working in small groups, read the following passage from American University’s Washington College of Law Honor Code and consider the questions given below.
Honor Сode
It has been a long-standing tradition of American University’s Washington College of Law (the law school) to expect students to conduct themselves at all times, both professionally and personally, in conformity with the standards imposed upon members of the legal profession. In their dealings with fellow students, faculty, administration, clients, law firms, courts, and other agencies, students of the law school are expected to adhere to the highest ethical standards of integrity and personal and academic honesty.
ARTICLE 8
The following specific rules relating to academic dishonesty shall apply to examinations:
All examinations must be taken on the day and at the time and in the place indicated.
A student may bring into the examination room only those items previously indicated by the professor in charge.
A student, during an examination, may not use materials not authorized by the instructions given for the examination, nor may he or she discuss the examination with any person other than the professor in charge.
A student may not take an examination for another student, nor may he or she permit another person to take an examination for him or her.
A student may not leave the place of the examination without the permission of the proctor. If such permission is granted, a student may not refer to any materials nor have any discussion with any person while absent from the room in which the examination is given.
A student who has taken a particular examination and a student who will take that examination at a subsequent time or date may not discuss it with each other.
A student may not act in any manner which would unreasonably interfere with other examinees during the time set for the examination.
Where a student’s conduct unreasonably interferes with other examinees, the proctor shall report the matter to the professor in charge, who may order the student to leave and may prevent the student from continuing the examination. A proceeding before the Honor Code Committee shall be instituted promptly following such suspension from an examination.
Where a student is caught cheating during the examination, the proctor shall report the matter to professor in charge. A proceeding before the Honor Code Committee shall be instituted promptly following the particular examination involved.
Any member of the law school community (faculty, student, or administration) who observes behavior which establishes reasonable grounds to believe a violation of these rules has occurred is under obligation to report promptly such behavior to the professor in charge, or the dean.
QUESTIONS:
Do you have the Honor Code in your university?
Do you think it is a good idea to have the Honor Code?
a. explain at least one way the Honor Code could be an advantage.
b. explain at least one way the Honor Code could be a disadvantage.
Are there any sanctions that can be imposed upon a Russian student caught cheating during the examination?
Do you think it is vital for a law student to follow the highest ethical standards in every professional, personal and educational domain?