BASIC LEGAL ENGLISH BY LE THI NGA (UNIVERSITY OF LAW - HUE UNIVERSITY)

"This book has been written to assist law students in learning and becoming more familiar with the English language in a legal context. In this way, this publication offers law students stimulating and enjoyable instruction designed to progressively enhance relevant and meaningful communication skills in oral and written legal English. Such a task-based approach will enable students to optimise academic and professional effectiveness and offer them a valuable source for academic and professional development. Legal English provides students with the opportunity to build up their language skills in a professional context through units. The exercises provided in this book are suitable to both self-study and group study in a classroom.

Students will benefit from pro-active skill-based exercises that involve the use of texts to develop a working knowledge of legal practice while improving their ability to use legal English.

The book consists of nine units that cover different topics related to various legal disciplines: Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Law on Criminal Procedure, Civil Law, Law on Marriage and Family, Labor Law, Land Law and Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law, Public International Law and Private International Law. Competence is developed throughout the book in a logical sequence of ascending complexity. Exercises are also cumulative, previous lessons being reinforced and built upon in subsequent exercises.

The units include an explanation of basic legal principles (such as the law of contract and tort) while reviewing language and grammar in the context of ‘portable’ skills training for academic and professional contexts. Bonus sections on journalistic texts, legal research, and study guidance further contribute to making this book valuable to students wishing to further develop their legal English for use in the courses of legal study or practice. It will be of most use, however, to students with at least an intermediate proficiency in the English language. Each unit introduces students to an overview of the designated legal topic and how the remaining chapter is delineated. Students are then provided with a range of language exercises relating to the legal topic for that units. These exercises involve legal skills practice for enabling students to develop their knowledge of legal English language. Answers to the exercises are provided in the Appendix and should be checked after students have undertaken the exercises."

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