Course Title : Legal English

Course Regular Lecture Seminar Lab

Code Credits ECTS
Type Semester (hours/week) (hours/week) (hours/week)

LAW 205 E 3 3 0 0 3.00 5

Lecturer and Office Hours Gentian Skara, Msc

Teaching Assistant and Office Hours

Language English

Course Level Bachelor

This course aims at giving participants an overview of the constitutional &

institutional law of the legal terminology using all the relevant English legal
Description terminology. Students will become familiar with the language of the treaties
and the institutions as well as introducing them to the most important
themes in law.

Having completed this class, participants should be able to communicate

freely in English about all of the major issues in legal English. Although legal
English is diverse having in mind the distinction between common law and
Objectives
civil law, knowledge of all relevant issues and terms in English is
indespensible to all lawyers. Providing this ability will be the main object of
this class.

Course Outline
Week Topics

1 Presentation of Module

2 Legal Systems

3 Albanian Legal System

4 People in Law

5 Types of courts and dispute resolution

6 Business Law

7 Contracts: Formation and Remedies

8 Midterm Exam

9 Employment Law and Human Resources

10 Company law

11 Human Rights (a case from ECHR)

12 Criminal Law

13 Punishment and Penalties

14 Legal latin and Legal referencing

15 European Union Law

16 Final Exam

Prerequisites

• Rawdon Wyatt, Check your English Vocabulary for Law, (London, A&C
Black 2006)
Textbook
• Gillian D. Brown and Sally Rice, Professional English in Use Law, (1 edition,
Cambridge University Press 2007)

• Rupert Haigh, Legal English(2nd edition), Routledge Cavendish, London,

Other References 2009
• Edward A. Nolfi, Legal Terminology Explained (McGraw-Hill 2009)

1
 Laboratory Work

Computer Usage

Other

Learning Outcomes and Competences

Upon the completion of the course the students should be able to demonstrate the ability to use legal
1
terms and expression

Upon the completion of the course the students should be able to demonstrate the ability to enhance
2
both their general and legal vocabulary

Upon the completion of the course the students should be able to demonstrate the ability to get,
3
analyze and evaluate important points in legal cases present in the text

Upon the completion of the course the students should be able to demonstrate the ability to
4
communicate both in speaking and writing in legal context Writes summaries of the legal cases

Course Evaluation Methods

In-term studies Quantity Percentage

Midterms 1 35

Quizzes 4 20

Projects 0 0

Term Projects 0 0

Laboratory 0 0

Attendance 0 0

Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade 55

Contribution of final examination to overall grade 45

Total 100

ECTS (Allocated Based on Student) Workload

Duration Total Workload
Activities Quantity
(hours) (hours)

Course Duration (Including the exam week : 16 x Total course

16 3 48
hours)

Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) 14 3 42

Assignments 0 0 0

Midterms 1 15 15

Final examination 1 20 20

Other 0 0 0

Total Work Load 125

Total Work Load / 25 (hours) 5

ECTS 5