English proficiency level: Intermediate to Advanced.
The course is technology-enhanced; students are required to have an e-mail account and computer literacy.

The aim of the course is to ensure that students acquire the skills, tools and terminology needed to operate in a context of legal innovation in a technologized and globalized world, and enhance students' ability to analyze the language used in legal innovation, based on a functional approach to the English language, and the linguistic competence needed to understand and produce texts that are used in the legal profession.
At the end of the course, students will be able to read and understand specialized texts related to the legal professional practice, write a short report on a case study in English, and give a presentation on a case study in English.

8 ECTS PROGRAMME

The course aims at providing advanced English legal knowledge and skills required to successfully navigate the most dynamic aspects of innovation in legal services and practice. The language of a legal system will be analyzed in terms of its terminology and phraseology, and the characterizing aspects of English in legal contexts will be highlighted, in terms of collocation, colligation, semantic preference and semantic prosody. The translation of legal texts will raise students' awareness of the stylistics, lexical, grammatical and cultural characteristics of legal language across cultures.

Related contents will refer to the following core areas:
MODULE A - ENGLISH IN CONTRACT LAW
MODULE B - ENGLISH IN COMPANY LAW
MODULE C - ENGLISH IN COMPETITION LAW
MODULE D - ENGLISH IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
MODULE E - ENGLISH IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
MODULE F - ENGLISH IN NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS
MODULE G - ENGLISH IN SECURED TRANSACTIONS
MODULE H - ENGLISH IN TECHNOLOGY AND FRAUD
MODULE I - ENGLISH IN THE LAW OF THE SEA

3 ECTS PROGRAMME

The course aims at providing advanced English legal knowledge and skills required to successfully navigate the most dynamic aspects of innovation in legal services and practice. The language of a legal system will be analyzed in terms of its terminology and phraseology, and the characterizing aspects of English in legal contexts will be highlighted, in terms of collocation, colligation, semantic preference and semantic prosody. The translation of legal texts will raise students' awareness of the stylistics, lexical, grammatical and cultural characteristics of legal language across cultures.

Related contents will refer to the following core areas:
MODULE A - ENGLISH IN CONTRACT LAW
MODULE B - ENGLISH IN COMPANY LAW
MODULE C - ENGLISH IN COMPETITION LAW

• 1.  (A) A. Krois-Lindner, Translegal International Legal English. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011 » Pagine/Capitoli: 336
• 2.  (C) M. Chartrand, C. Millar, E. Wiltshire English for Contract and Company Law Thomson Reuters, London, 2009 » Pagine/Capitoli: 155

The course programme, whether 8 ECTS or 3 ECTS, equally applies to all students, who are all considered to be attending. The study materials and related activities are available on a specific platform, on which students will register at the beginning of the course.

• Teaching and learning are organized according to ILV methodology (Information / Laboratory / Verification), which provides informative moments, followed by analysis and reconstruction workshops that allow students to turn theory into practice, and develop reflective thinking on their own learning processes and products.

• 8 ECTS PROGRAMME
  
  At the end of the course students will have to take a final test with closed-ended questions, aimed to assess knowledge of the core concepts of the specialized language, and work on a project work resulting in the written report on a case study (to be agreed with the instructor) and its oral presentation in English. The test and the project work will each be worth 50% of the final exam score. The overall evaluation of the exam will take into account the key concepts learnt, the problem-solving and critical thinking applied to the project work carried out, and the ability to discursively organize knowledge.
  
  3 ECTS PROGRAMME
  
  Assessment of the student's understanding of the assigned modules will be made based on a final test with closed-ended questions.
  

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