《专业英语》教学大纲
Legal English
课程编码： 07A11513 学分： 2.0 课程类别： 专业任选课
计划学时： 30 其中讲课： 32 实验或实践： 0 上机：0
适用专业：法学本科
推荐教材：
董世忠，赵建：法律英语，上海复旦大学出版社，2011年
参考书目：
中文参考书目：
何家弘：法律英语 Legal English (第二版)，法律出版社，2008年
陈忠诚：法律英语阅读（民法）Legal English Reading Civil Law，法律出版社，2010年
望月礼二郎著，郭建，王仲涛译：《英美法》，商务印书馆，2005年
崔永东：《中西法律文化比较》，北京大学出版社，2004年
沈宗灵：《比较法研究》，北京大学出版社，2005年
外文参考书目 ：
Konrad Zweigert and Hein Kotz，《An Introduction to Comparative Law》，（3rd ed）Clarendon Press Oxford
Roy Goode Commercial Law（3rd ed）Penguin Books
课程的教学目的与任务
法律英语课程以《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》为指导，是一门集英美法律制度、基本法学知识和较高水平和较高技能的英语知识为一体的综合性课程。从教学任务而言，学生通过学习法律原著，了解并掌握英美法系国家的法律制度、最新的国外法学研究方法和相关法律英语的词汇及术语，形成熟练阅读理解法律文献以及较为严谨的英汉互译能力。
从教学目的来看，通过对本课程的学习，从法律英语角度了解、体会英美法的基本法律制度、法律职业和法律教育背景、司法系统构成及其常用而重要的各部门法知识，并通过比较研究初步掌握中国法律制度与英美法律制度的异同；基本掌握法律英语中的关键词汇、术语并借助所学知识能够独立阅读英美法律文献；逐步养成语篇分析能力，初步具备英美司法文书的基本文献写作能力；具有独立思考问题、查阅文献的能力。
课程的基本要求
从英语语言技能方面看，首先要求学生具有较为扎实的语言基本功，即听、说、读、写、译5项基本技能，一定的语言交际能力，即语言应用能力；其次从法学知识方面而言，学习者还需要系统学习法学基础理论、民法、刑法、国际法等一般的基础法学课程，对法学概念、法学推理、法律思维方式等都有所了解或掌握；最后，从教学方面，教师通过课堂教学、案例分析、模拟法庭等形式系统介绍英美法律制度、法院系统、法律职业及法律教育以及所涉及到的各部门法。具体要求主要包括以下三方面：
1. 对西方英美法系的法律传统、法律文化有所了解。
2. 掌握英美法系的具体法律制度。
3. 以法律英语为媒介，掌握基本的法律术语与概念。
各章节授课内容、教学方法及学时分配建议（含课内实验）
第一章 Chapter 1：普通法系的产生 General Introduction of the Anglo-American Law 建议学时：8
[教学目的与要求] 引领学生了解两大法系的区别及其各自特点。掌握相应法律术语，并展开相应阅读、听说方面的训练。
Students will be able to: know something about the two big legal systems, their differences and also will know that every society has a legal system ; master some related legal terms; conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit.
[教学重点与难点] 两大法系的各自特点；普通法系的形成、令状制度、衡平法与普通法的关系。
Conception of Legal Families and criteria on identifying these; Romanist law family; Germanic Law family; Scandinavian; so on Which countries belong to Anglo-American law family；Differences between common law and European Continental law systems.
[授 课 方 法] 以课堂讲授为主，课堂讨论和课下自学为辅。
Students read, the teacher asks questions and give detailed explanation by using PPT, or
Ask students to do PPT and presentation then the teacher gives comments and summary.
--- This should be done paragraph by paragraph.
Make clear that every society has a legal system by asking pre-reading questions.
[授 课 内 容]
第一节 法系的形成及世界两大主要法系的划分 (Law Families In The World)
Paragraph 1
A bewildering variety of legal systems
- every country
- in US, 51 legal systems
Law stops at the border/home base.
Paragraph 2
Legal systems:
- are not exactly alike,
- nor entirely different from each other
-- similar in culture and tradition, similar in legal systems, e.g. Australia and New Zealand
Paragraph 3
Clusters/families/groups of legal systems
- structure, substance, or culture in common
- related: have a common parent or ancestor, or have borrowed their laws from a common source
English law: influence on American colonies, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, other nations that were once its colonies
第二节 英美法系的形成 （Formation of the Anglo-American Law Family）
Paragraph 4
Civil-law family:
a common debt to Roman Law
- rediscovered/revived in the Middle Ages
- western Europe: France (and its colonies), Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal,
- Latin America, Quebec of Canada
- Japan and Turkey, borrowed chunks of Roman law
Paragraph 5
civil-law system are
- “codified” system,
- statutes, or super-statutes
-- enacted by the national parliament
-- orderly, logical and comprehensive
The civil code of France-- Code Napoleon
- tremendous influence on the form and substance of most later codes.
Paragraph 6 (1)
Common law system:
- English native traditions
- held fast by England, who resisted the “reception” of Roman law
- Many ideas and terms from Roman law and European law crept into English law,
- core legal system of England law
Common law differs from civil law
- resisted codification
- never an English equivalent of the Napoleonic Code
- basic principles of law were in case law
Paragraph 6 (2)
Case law:
the body of opinions written by judges, and developed by judges in the course of deciding particular cases.
The doctrine of precedent: the maxim that a judge is bound in some way by what has been decided
Peculiar features of substance, structure, and culture.
the jury: a common-law institution
- trust: an arrangement in which a person/bank as trustee receives money or property to invest and manage for beneficiaries
Paragraph 7
All common-law countries were once colonies of Great Britain, or in some cases, colonies of colonies.
Paragraph 8
In the Eastern Europe,
- difficult to classify
- Russia and its satellites
-- once had close ties with civil law
-- socialist revolutions transformed them
-- legal resemblance to western Europe,
-- some still treat them as part of the civil law families.
Paragraph 9
Scandinavian countries:
- a family of their own
A legal system is not an exercise in history (legal tradition); it is problem-solving machine, problems of today.
Paragraph 10
A country’s law is influenced by the level of development /Technology: a lawmaker and leveler.
Traffic rules:
- basically the same in England and France
- similar in every country touched by the automotive revolution,
- the railroad and automobile: rewrite the law books and show little respect for what family a legal system belongs to
Paragraph 11
Technology (continued):
- tort law --- the law of accidents: the child of the railroad; the adopted child of the automobile
- automobile:
-- result in a vast body of rules,
-- has changed society in fundamentally
-- not separates civil-law and common-law countries
-- separates modern systems from older/primitive systems
Paragraph 12
Every society has a legal system:
- the legal systems of the Far East
- the sacred-law systems of classical India, Israel, and the Islamic countries.
-- Islamic law: a living force in the world today:
-- official status in Saudi Arabia,
-- comeback in other Moslem countries, most notably in Iran.
- Africa: the home of tribal systems; under pressure from Western Codes and rules
Paragraph 12(2)
The law of a tribe of hunters and gatherers has got to be different from the law of America.
Evolutionary patterns of law?/Do legal systems evolve in definite, patterned way?
Paragraph 13
A classic question; no definite answer.
Some deny the value of the question:
Changes in social systems and technology
- the railroad and the automobile made the modern law of torts
Answer to the question: whether we call the main lines of growth “evolution” is only a question of words.
Paragraph 14
Legal dynamics are a fact.
- the rate of change, the kind of change, the effects of change
第二章 Chapter 2： 英美法的法律渊源（Sources of Law） 建议学时：4
[教学目的与要求] 教授学生了解法律渊源定义并掌握普通法系法律渊源及其分类。
Mastering definition of sources of law, and legal sources and classifications of which in common law system.
[教学重点与难点] 法律渊源定义；中国的法律渊源词汇；英美法系法律渊源的分类。
Definition of sources of law, and legal sources and classifications of which in common law system.
[授 课 方 法]以课堂讲授为主，课堂讨论和课下自学为辅。
This should be done paragraph by paragraph.
第一节 英国法律渊源（Legal Sources of the UK）
1、Definition of Sources of Law
2、Sources of Law in China
3、Sources of Law and Classification in the UK
第二节 法律渊源的分类 （Classification of Legal Sources）
1、Literary Source
2、Formal Source
3、Historical Source
4、Legal Source
5、classification by Authority (precedent、statutes;custom、restatement)
第三章 Chapter 3： 法院体系（Courts System） 建议学时：4
[教学目的与要求]教授英国与美国法院组织体系及重点法院管辖权，并涉及重点词汇的掌握。
[教学重点与难点] 英国与美国法院组织体系及重点法院管辖权。
第一节 英国的法院体系（Court System of England）
1.features of Court System of England
2. Her Majesty’s Court Structure of the UK
3.Supreme Court and its Jurisdiction.
4. High Court, and its composition and jurisdiction.
5.Crown Court, and its composition and jurisdiction
6.Magistrate’s Court and its composition and jurisdiction
第二节 美国的法院体系（Dual Court System——Court System of the US）
1.Dual Court System
2.Federal Court System and Jurisdiction
3.State Court System andJurisdiction
4.Appointment and Removal of Judges
第四章 Chapter 4： 如何阅读判例（How to Read a Case?） 建议学时：4
[教学目的与要求]教授学生掌握阅读判例报告的技巧，并涉及重点词汇的掌握。
Mastering skills of reading a law report as well asessential vocabularies.
[教学重点与难点] 判例的效力等级；判例报告的构成；判例推理部分的鉴别。
Authority of cases and how to recognizeprecedents; Composition of a law report, and how to recognize reasoning or motivation of each case.
Make clear thathow many parts consisted by a law report and how to find citation of cases by asking pre-reading questions.
第一节Authorities of cases in the UK and the US 英国及美国的判决效力
1.Authorities of cases in the UK
2. Authorities of cases in the US
第二节 How to read a case? 如何阅读判例？
1.Composition of a case report
2.How toanalyze case names?
3. How to recognize decision of a case asap?
第五章 案例阅读 Case Reading Practice 1. 建议学时：2
Webster v. Blue Ship Tea Room, Inc.
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1964
198 N.E.2d 309
[教学目的与要求] 结合Webster v. Blue Ship Tea Room, Inc, 实践并联系第四章关于如何阅读判例的各种技巧，并涉及重点词汇的掌握。
Mastering skills of reading a law report as well asessential vocabularies with regard to the caseWebster v. Blue Ship Tea Room, Inc.Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1964,198 N.E.2d 309.
[教学重点与难点] Webster v. Blue Ship Tea Room, Inc案的审判历史，判决界别，判决出处，案件事实，推理过程，判决结果以及法律渊源的识别问题。
Recognition of litigation History, Authority, citation, facts, reasoning decision and legal resources of the caseWebster v. Blue Ship Tea Room, Inc.
1.Citation ofWebster v. Blue Ship Tea Room, Inc
2.facts ofWebster v. Blue Ship Tea Room, Inc
3.reasoning ofWebster v. Blue Ship Tea Room, Inc
4.legal sources ofWebster v. Blue Ship Tea Room, Inc
第六章： Case Reading Practice 2. 建议学时：4
Mabury v.Madison.
FederalSupreme Court of U.S., 1803
5 U.S. 137 (1803)
[教学目的与要求] 结合Mabury v.Madison, FederalSupreme Court of U.S., 1803实践并联系第四章关于如何阅读判例的各种技巧，并涉及重点词汇的掌握。
Mastering skills of reading a law report as well asessential vocabularies with regard to the caseMabury v.Madison, FederalSupreme Court of U.S., 1803
[教学重点与难点] Mabury v.Madison案的审判历史，判决界别，判决出处，案件事实，推理过程，判决结果以及法律渊源的识别问题。
Recognition of litigation History, Authority, citation, facts, reasoning decision and legal resources of the caseMabury v.Madison
1.Citation of Mabury v.Madison
2.facts of Mabury v.Madison
3.reasoning of Mabury v.Madison
4.legal sources of Mabury v.Madison
第七章 Case Reading Practice 3. 建议学时：2
William Jefferson Clinton (Petitioner) v. Paula Corbin Jones (Respondent)
U.S. Supreme Court
Decided May 27, 1997
[教学目的与要求] 结合William Jefferson Clinton (Petitioner) v. Paula Corbin Jones
(Respondent) ，U.S. Supreme Court实践并练习第四章关于如何阅读判例的各种技巧，并涉及重点词汇的掌握。
Mastering skills of reading a law report as well asessential vocabularies with regard to the caseWilliam Jefferson Clinton (Petitioner) v. Paula Corbin Jones (Respondent)
[教学重点与难点] William Jefferson Clinton (Petitioner) v. Paula Corbin Jones
(Respondent)案的审判历史，判决界别，判决出处，案件事实，推理过程，判决结果以及法律渊源的识别问题。
Recognition of litigation History, Authority, citation, facts, reasoning decision and legal resources of the caseWilliam Jefferson Clinton (Petitioner) v. Paula Corbin Jones (Respondent)。
1.Citation ofWilliam Jefferson Clinton (Petitioner) v. Paula Corbin Jones (Respondent)
2.facts ofWilliam Jefferson Clinton (Petitioner) v. Paula Corbin Jones (Respondent)
3.reasoning ofWilliam Jefferson Clinton (Petitioner) v. Paula Corbin Jones (Respondent)
4.legal sources ofWilliam Jefferson Clinton (Petitioner) v. Paula Corbin Jones (Respondent)
第八章： 复习 Review. 建议学时：2
[教学目的与要求] 对本学期所学内容进行概要串讲及复习
撰稿人： 褚宁、朱海波 审核人：苑敏
上一：【法学】《专业实习与学年论文》教学大纲
下一：行政管理专业培养方案及教学大纲（课程教学大纲请点击课程名称获取 2014版）
