1. ENGLISH FOR LAWYERS I INTRODUCTION Snježana Husinec, PhD

2. Contact: shusinec@pravo.hr
LECTURER
Snježana Husinec, PhD
Office hours: Monday, ,
Gundulićeva 10, Office 2A
Contact:

3. English for Lawyers I – About the course
LEGAL ENGLISH (LLP) – a language for specific purposes (LSP)
A) technical (highly specialized) terminology
(e.g. jurisdiction, revenue, precedent, judiciary, legislature etc.)
B) general English words with different meaning in a
legal context
(e.g. challenge, artificial person etc.)
C) specific structural features
(passive form, nominal constructions instead of verbs, special usage of shall etc.)

4. Reasons why you need to study the language of law
using secondary (specialist and scientific) literature
studying abroad (scholarships, student exchange)
an advantage on the labour market
communication with colleagues abroad

5. English for Lawyers I Obligatory literature Additional source
1. Coursebook
Sočanac, Matijašević, Javornik Čubrić, Husinec, Horvatić Bilić: English for the Legal Profession.
Zagreb: Narodne novine, 2017.
Additional source
2. Teacher’s presentations
( – Katedra za strane jezike, predmeti, Engleski jezik pravne struke I, Nastavni materijali, Snježana Husinec

6. Additional reading RECOMMENDED GRAMMAR BOOK
M. Hewings, Advanced grammar in Use, 12th printing, Cambridge University Press, 2004

7. RECOMMENDED DICTIONARIES
GENERAL ENGLISH
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
LEGAL ENGLISH
A) Monolingual
Black’s Law Dictionary
P. H. Collin, Dictionary of Law, 03rd edition, Peter Collin Publishing, London, 2002
Online dictionaries:
legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com
B) Bilingual
M. Gačić, English-Croatian Dictionary of Law, Naklada Ljevak, Zagreb, 2004
V. Ivir, Croatian-English Dictionary of Business and Government, Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1998

8. Course syllabus MODULE I: Introduction to Law Unit 1: Language and Law
Unit 2: About Law
Unit 3: Branches of Law
Unit 4: The Historical Development of Law
Unit 5: Legal Systems of the World
Unit 6: State Governance and Administration of
Justice

9. Participation and Attendance
PARTICIPATION in the lecture – OBLIGATORY !
ATTENDANCE – obligatory -
no more than 3 absences
SEMINAR PAPER – additional task

10. Requirements for the examination
Tested knowledge:
A) vocabulary
B) content (presented in the coursebook and during the lecture)
1. Written qualifying exam
(focus on terminology and relevant grammar)
END-TERM EXAM – second half of January
(for those with 3 or fewer absences)
2. Oral exam
(speaking about the topics covered by the curriculum – using relevant legal terms)

11. Additional information
STUDENT MENTORS
- students with excellent command of
English assisting their weaker colleagues
TEMPUS STUDY ROOM
Trg Republike Hrvatske (in the basement)
Monday – Friday = 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
- a variety of useful resources (dictionaries, legal books on different topics)
- free Internet access