Sumários

Unit 3 - What is law? What is Common Law?

25 Outubro 2017, 10:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA

 

Watching and dicussing two lectures ('What is law?' and ' What is Common Law?') by professor Dame Hazel Genn.
Discussing how far English history has contributed to the English legal system (from William the Conqueror to Henry II and other Angevin monarchs, the curia regis, the jury system, the circuit ystem and how it developed)

Sources of English law.  

The solicitor route

23 Outubro 2017, 10:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA


The solicitor route. Watching one barrister and three solicitors explain why they chose to be a barrister or solicitor.
Watching Gemma Harris, a solicitor, explain what it takes to become a solicitor and describe a day at work.

Reading and discussing 'Almost half of solicitors in England and Wales are women, study says' (The Guardian. 17 May 2016)

Reading and discussing 'A one nation policy', a speech delivered at the Legatum Institute by Michael Gove
the (then) Secretary of State for Justice (June 23, 2015): understanding cultural and historic references.
The rule of law.

Watching BBC documentary "The Barristers"

18 Outubro 2017, 10:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA


Watching and discussing BBC documentary "The Barristers", part 1 and 2
Vocabulary building (e.g. criminal law; civil law; silk, QC, senior barrister, , blue bag, red bag; advocacy; advocate, BVC, pupillage, chambers, robing room)
The 3 rounds of debates weighing 20% of final assessment have been now replaced  by one debate and two individual oral presentations.
The debate shall be held on November 29 and will debate the law-making process in the UK.
The oral presentations shall be held on the Inns of Court (November 15) and the UK Parliament (December 13).
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Starting Unit 2

16 Outubro 2017, 10:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA


The English legal profession
Listening comprehension exercises :
a) legal practitioners (page 21): terms, definition, usage;
b) the Bar (page 22) : the German Bar examination against the US Bar examination (comparing and contrasting civil-law systems and common-law systems)
c) job interview (page 22) : what is a law boutique, structure of the law boutique (departments, senior partners, full partners, associates, paralegals).

The legal profession : "BBC2 to broadcast an intimate portrait of life at the bar" (pages 23-24).Vocabualry expansion: Circuits, Inns of Court, pupillage, tenancy, QC. 

Law clinics n England and why law fairs matter

11 Outubro 2017, 10:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA

Law clinics in England and why law fairs matter (pages 16-19 Student's Workbook).
The Barker Rose Graduate Recruitment Programme (Listening Comprehension exercises 1 and 2, Unit 1) (page 20)
Discussing the listening comprehension exercises and the speech structure.
Speakers on behalf of AIESEC, the world's largest non-profit youth-run organization, talk about international volunteer programmes.