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PLATFORMA BLACKBOARD
Codul cursului:
Tip curs: obligatoriu pentru Facultatea de Drept şi Administraţie Publică, Anul II (semestrul II), Zi/ID/FR.
Manuale recomandate: Rădulescu Adina – A Practical English Handbook for Law Students, Ed. Fundaţiei
România de Mâine, Bucureşti, 2006
Lavinia Nădrag, Manuela Stroescu – English for Law Students, Ed. Fundaţiei România de Mâine,
Bucureşti, 2002/6.
Modul de stabilire a notei finale: Învăţământ cursuri de zi: test grila Blackboard
Învăţământ cursuri ID/FR: test grilă Blackboard
Consultaţii pentru studenţi: în fiecare marti între orele 12-14, Facultatea de Drept si Administratie Publica,
Sediul Central din str. Ion Ghica Nr. 13, et. 5.
Titularul cursului: Seria Zi/ID/FR: Lector univ. drd. Adina Rădulescu – adina.radulescu@yahoo.com
Adresa facultate: Str. Ion Ghica Nr. 13
Consultaţii: în fiecare marti între orele 12-14, Facultatea de Drept si Administratie Publica, Sediul Central
din str. Ion Ghica Nr. 13, et. 5.
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Role of Federal Courts in Balancing Liberties and Safety; United States Constitution: Amendments;
Disclosure of Classified Information; Health Care Fraud; Identity Theft.
3. Bibliografia minimă obligatorie: Rădulescu Adina – A Practical English Handbook for Law Students,
Ed. Fundaţiei România de Mâine, Bucureşti, 2006
Lavinia Nădrag, Manuela Stroescu – English for Law Students, Ed. Fundaţiei România de Mâine,
Bucureşti, 2002/6.
Vladimir Hanga, Rodica Calciu – Dicţionar juridic englez - român şi român- englez, ed. Lumina Lex,
Bucureşti, 1994.
4, Bibliografie facultativă: Blackstone’s EC Legislation, Sixth Edition, Edited by Nigel G. Foster, BA,
LLM, Dip German, Blackstone Press Limited, 1995.
Collins, L. – European Community Law in the United Kingdom, 4th edition, London, Butterworths, 1990.
Weatherill, Stephen and Beaumont, Paul – EC LAW, Second Edition, Penguin Books, 1995.
Prezentarea cursului/Rezumatul cursului: This practical English course is an advanced form of dealing
with specialized language in the law field. The first communicational skills in a specialized field (juridical
sciences) achieved in the first year of study are now taken to the next level of communicational
competence. The course focuses on new targets: a) using English fluently in artificially created situational
contexts – Role playing (enacting a trial, presenting a case, pleading for or against a defendant, reaching a
verdict etc.); b) introducing arguments for or against in a juridical debate (practising linking words and
expressions); c) commenting on a case using expressions of personal opinion; d) summarizing a case by
making contrasting points. Though the focus has now shifted to practising advanced speaking skills, there
are still some text related skills that students need to develop: a) extracting English expressions from a text
to match their Romanian equivalents; b) matching Latin legal terms with their corresponding English
definitions; c) asking and answering questions selecting information from a given text. The grammatical
aspects consolidated in this course – conditional clauses, the infinitive and gerund, the subjunctive and
phrasal verbs – will be checked in multiple choice, gap filling, matching and translation exercises.
Students will be encouraged to show initiative and propose new topics for debate and to assert themselves
as future professionals ready to pursue a career in the law field.
Aplicaţii
Teste pentru autoevaluare la tema tratată
a. Branzburg was called to Court to be investigated in the two cases of drug use. ___
b. The prosecutors ordered Branzburg to reveal the names of his sources. ___
c. Branzburg refused to name his sources on the grounds that they were important public figures. ___
2. În conformitate cu legea, dacă un jurnalist este adus în faţa Curţii, el va trebui să depună mărturie în
legătură cu cazurile despre care deţine informaţii neoficial.
3. Este datoria presei să semnaleze Curţii acele cazuri suspecte care ar face obiectul jurisdicţiei sale?
3. Choose the correct versions, paying attention to the use of verbal tenses, conditionals and modal
verbs in conditional clauses:
1. If the defendant has a prior criminal record, his sentence ……………… harsher.
2. If the writ of habeas corpus ……………….. , the prisoner will be brought into court.
3. Judges ……… the authority to hold journalists in contempt of court, if reporters …….. to comply with
an order to reveal the identity of unnamed sources.
a) had, refused b) have, refuse c) have, would refuse d) have, will have refused
4. If the grand jury …………… its proceedings in secret, requiring a journalist to reveal confidential
sources would have been considered prosecutorial abuse.
5. If a journalist’s source is engaged in illegal activities and ……… that the journalist could be required to
identify him/her, the source ………….. hesitant to talk.
Can you help me find (find) better accomodation and a new job? The judges seem …………….. (1. grant)
me parole due to my good behaviour in prison. But my parole officer doesn’t appear …………. (2. share)
their opinion. Every time something bad happens in my neighbourhood, he expects me ………. (3.
confess) to a crime I did not commit. Sometimes he comes unexpectedly to check upon me. For instance,
yesterday, he pretended ………………. (4. forget) to give me an application form which had .……… (5.
sign) for my job interview. In other words, things appear …………….. (6. go) from bad to worse and
sometimes I think I would rather ……… (7. serve) the rest of my sentence in prison than ………… (8.
enjoy) a so-called freedom.
Amendment IV prohibits:
b) any unauthorized searches and seizures without a valid warrant, legally issued for a specific purpose;
c) people’s rights to offer resistance to having their houses serched without a valid warrant.
a) no person shall be held responsible for a crime without the right to speak in front of the Grand Jury;
b) no person shall be forced to answer for a crime in front of the Grand Jury;
2. The judge insisted that the verdict ……………… before the Court adjourns for lunch.
a) should be pronounced b) being pronounced c) be pronouncing
d) will be pronounced
4. ………… it to say that she is terribly sorry for what she did.
a) Sufficient b) Suffice c) Suffices d) Sufficed
5. …………. what may, I shall not drop the charges against him!
a) Comes b) Coming c) Come d) To come
10. Choose the right version to form phrasal verbs that fit in the context:
1. I don’t know how you can put …. ….. such an unbearable situation.
a) by with b) up of c) up with
3. I guess the printer has either run ……….. paper or has broken ……….
a) away with, down b) out of, down c) off with, off
4. Several companies have decided to lay …. employees and call ….. all investment projects.
a) off, off b) out, off c) up, down
5. You have to learn how to ……….. if you are suffering from high stress levels.
a) draw back b) wind down c) hold up
Rezolvări şi răspunsuri
1.a. F; b. T; c. F
3. 1. a; 2.b; 3. b; 4. a; 5. b.
4. 1. to have granted; 2. to share/to be sharing; 3. to confess; 4. to have forgotten; 5. to be signed; 6. to be
going; 7. serve.
5.b
6.c
7.a
8. 1. c; 2. a; 3. c; 4. b; 5. c
9. 1. a; 2. a; 3. b; 4. b; 5. c
10. 1. c; 2. c; 3. b; 4. a; 5. b
Teme de casă
• Translate the texts of Units 1-7 in writing.
• Find 10 more Latin legal terms and use them in sentences of your own.
• Choose a different Amendment and comment on it.
• Choose a recent case from British or American on-line newspapers and make its summary.