1. English for social workers I session 3, 19 oct 2017
Miljen Matijašević
Office: G10, room 6 (1st floor)
Tue, 11:30-12:30

2. Today’s session
About Law - revision
Branches of Law

3. About Law
Revision

4. About law Provide a definition of law.
How do supporters of the natural law theory see law?
What about legal positivists?
What do you know about the procedural functions of law?
What arrangements does it facilitate?
What rights does it protect?
Why doesn’t law necessarily provide justice?

5. Explain the following terms
legal regulation
purchase and sale
property
coercion
breach
enforce
consensus
provision
enforcement

6. regulation – violation – comply – apply – resolve lay down – enter – coincide – enforce – sanction
Law protects against the _________ of fundamental rights. It _________ to everyone, unless otherwise specified.
Courts _________ the law, _________ disputes, and may impose _________ if a law is breached.
Every institution can adopt _________ that govern its work and provide for rights and obligations of its employees.
When contracting parties _________ into a contract, they must _________ with all the provisions _________ in it.

7. regulation – violation – comply – apply – resolve lay down – enter – coincide – enforce – sanction
Law protects against the VIOLATIONS of fundamental rights. It APPLIES to everyone, unless otherwise specified.
Courts ENFORCE the law, RESOLVE disputes, and may impose SANCTIONS if a law is breached.
Every institution can adopt REGULATIONS that govern its work and provide for rights and obligations of its employees.
When contracting parties ENTER into a contract, they must COMPLY with all the provisions LAID DOWN in it.

8. Law and Morality
Hart-Fuller debate

9. Law and morality Discuss in groups:
Should the law be based on morality?
Do we all share the same moral standards? Think of examples.
In your opinion, should the law be respected even if it deviates from morality? Give your arguments

10. Hart-Fuller debate Discuss the meaning of the following phrases:
to be tried for a crime
to convert a death sentence
to prosecute someone for an offence
grounds for conviction
statute
to enact a law
retroactive legislation

11. Hart-Fuller debate Discuss the meaning of the following phrases:
to be tried for a crime – suditi nekome za zločin
to convert a death sentence – preinačiti smrtnu kaznu
to prosecute someone for an offence – tužiti/kazneno goniti nekoga za kazneno djelo
grounds for conviction – osnova za osuđujuću presudu
statute - zakon
to enact a law – usvojiti, donijeti zakon
retroactive legislation – propis s retroaktivnim učinkom

12. Hart-Fuller debate
Read the summary of the debate on p. 15 and asnwer the questions in exercise II
Discuss the questions in exercise III in small groups

13. Branches of Law

14. Branches of Law INTRODUCTION
What branches of law do you know? What do they regulate, to your knowledge? Write them down in your notebook

15. Classification of law INTERNATIONAL LAW NATIONAL LAW SUPRANATIONAL LAW
1: international treaties, conventions, etc.
2: laws of a country
3: legislation and court decisions of the EU

16. Classification of law PUBLIC LAW PRIVATE LAW
1: Law which concerns the public, the state, the whole society
2: Law that regulates relationships between persons and facilitates various social arrangements

17. Classification of law SUBSTANTIVE LAW PROCEDURAL LAW
1: lays down rights and duties in various areas (e.g. marital rights and duties, punishment for crimes)
2: lays down the rules of court procedures and other types of law enforcement (rules of evidence, rules of police detention, etc.)

18. Classification of law CRIMINAL LAW CIVIL LAW
1: involves the prosecution of and punishment for crimes by the state
2: non-criminal law, deals with disputes between individuals and regulates other areas of life not involving the state

19. Classification of law
Read the first part of the text, concluding with ‘Public and private law’
Answer questions IV/1-2
Classify the branches you wrote down at the beginning of class into the chart in exercise II

20. Classification of law Read about public law
Why is criminal law part of public law?

21. Classification of law
Read about private law
Do exercise V.

22. Translate into Croatian
constitutional law
administrative law
criminal law
family law
company law
employment law
civil law

23. Translate into Croatian
constitutional law – ustavno pravo
administrative law – upravno pravo
criminal law – kazneno pravo
family law – obiteljsko pravo
company law – pravo društava
employment law – radno pravo
civil law – građansko pravo

24. Translate into Croatian
contract law
law of torts
property law
law of succession

25. Translate into Croatian
contract law – pravo ugovora, dio obveznog prava
law of torts – odštetno pravo, dio obveznog prava, građanski delikti
property law – stvarno pravo, imovinsko pravo
law of succession – pravo nasljeđivanja, ostavinsko pravo

26. Civil vs. criminal law
Read about the principal differences between civil and criminal law
Summarize them in your own words
Exercise VI – Read more about the procedure and terminology of civil and criminal law
Complete the chart

27. Classification of Law Exercise VII – vocabulary
Exercise VIII – word families

28. Thank you for your attention!