
- •Введение
- •Contents
- •Introduction to legal english Before you start
- •Concept
- •Part 1.Terminology basics
- •Fundamentals
- •I. Origin of some basic words
- •1. Law and Legal
- •3. The word jury has a different origin
- •2. Impersonal sentences
- •3. Passive constructions
- •Development Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Part 2.The concept of law and areas of law fundamentals
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Areas of law
- •Exercise 5
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7 Business Law
- •Part 3. How to look up words in a dictionary
- •Unit II state structure: legislative branch of power Before you start
- •Part 1. Legislation process in the united kingdom fundamentals The uk Parliament
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 4
- •How laws are made in the uk Parliament
- •Exercise 5
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7
- •Exercise 8
- •Video script
- •Uk Executive Branch of Power
- •How Bill Becomes Law in the usa
- •Exercise 10
- •Exercise 14
- •Internet Search. Visiting the site of the Congress.
- •The Executive Branch of Power in the usa
- •The russian federation chapter
- •Part 3. How to make presentations
- •Presentation
- •Introduction
- •Unit III state structure: judicial branch of power Before you start
- •Part 1. The uk justice system
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7
- •Development Exercise 8
- •Part 2. The us justice system
- •Fundamentals
- •Exercise 9
- •Exercise 10
- •Development State court system
- •Exercise 11
- •Exercise 12
- •Exercise 13
- •Internet research
- •Exercise 14
- •The russian federation chapter
- •Part 3. How to conduct discussions and hold meetings
- •1. Chairperson conducts a meeting or discussion
- •2. Audience’s interaction with the speaker
- •3. The speaker’s reaction to the questions and comments.
- •Sequencing and connecting ideas
- •Unit IV legal systems Before you start
- •Exercise 2
- •Henry II of England
- •The third criterion
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7
- •Exercise 8
- •Exercise 9
- •Sources of Civil Law Exercise 10
- •Part 2. Precedent
- •Fundamentals
- •Exercise 11
- •Development Exercise 12
- •Exercise 13
- •Exercise 14
- •Miranda V. Arizona (1966)
- •Gideon V Wainwright (1963)
- •Brown V. Board of Education, 347 u.S. 483 (1954)
- •The russian federation chapter
- •Information that law students search in Internet
- •Unit V. Wrongs and offences. Before you start
- •Part 1. Torts as civil wrongs fundamentals Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Intentional torts
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 7
- •Exercise 8
- •Exercise 9
- •Internet research
- •Exercise 12
- •Exercise 13
- •Exercise 14
- •Exercise 15
- •Development Exercise 16
- •Exercise 17
- •4. Note hate crime – преступление на почве ненависти; преступление на почве этнической ненависти
- •Exercise 18
- •Internet research
- •The russian federation chapter
- •Part 3. How to provide arguments in a dispute
- •Unit VI legal education Before you start
- •Part 1. Becoming an attorney (us) fundamentals
- •How to become a lawyer in the usa
- •Interview with an American attorney
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Development Exercise 5
- •Internet Research
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7.
- •Part 2. Becoming a solicitor or barrister (uk) fundamentals
- •Exercise 8
- •Exercise 9
- •Exercise 10
- •Internet research.
- •Exercise 11
- •The russian federation chapter
- •Part 3. How law students keep up legal correspondence
- •Internship advertisement
- •Unit VII legal professionals Before you start
- •Concept
- •Part 1. Law and law-related professions
- •Exercise 1
- •Fundamentals
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Development Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7
- •Interview with a Finance Lawyer
- •Exercise 8
- •Part 2. Law firms and legal departments Exercise 9
- •Exercise 10
- •Exercise 11
- •Exercise 12
- •Exercise 13
- •Exercise 14
- •1. Providing legal advice and guidance
- •2. Prosecution of cases in courts and litigation management
- •3. Documentation preparation and drafting
- •The russian federation chapter
- •Part 3. How law professionals keep up legal correspondence
- •Correspondence phrase bank basics
- •The russian federation chapter
- •Bibliography
- •Заключение
Exercise 14
Internet Search. Visiting the site of the Congress.
http://www.house.gov/
1) Look through the movable menu under the headline Legislative Activity to find out what bills are scheduled for the hearings.
2) Down the page to the right you will see a funny link Kids in the House. When you click here you will find an educational and entertaining website about the House for students of all age levels.
3) Your next step will be High Schoolers
You are on the page Meet the Clerk. Read and prepare to speak about the role and functions of the clerk.
4) Use the opening menu Additional Topics and find there the link How a Bill becomes a Law
While scanning the text find out what information is familiar to you and what facts are quite new. Use a Glossary – link to the left - to help you. Prepare to speak about the legislation process as it is presented on the site.
(If you find the texts difficult you can always go to a lower stage – Middle or Grade where the same topics are given in a simpler way).
The Executive Branch of Power in the usa
/From the White House site
http://www.whitehouse.gov/our-government/executive-branch/
The power of the Executive Branch is vested in the President of the United States, who also acts as head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. The President is responsible for implementing and enforcing the laws written by Congress and, to that end, appoints the heads of the federal agencies, including the Cabinet. The Vice President is also part of the Executive Branch, ready to assume the Presidency should the need arise.
Under Article II of the Constitution, the President is responsible for the execution and enforcement of the laws created by Congress. Fifteen executive departments — each led by an appointed member of the President's Cabinet — carry out the day-to-day administration of the federal government. They are joined in this by other executive agencies such as the CIA and Environmental Protection Agency, the heads of which are not part of the Cabinet, but who are under the full authority of the President.
The Cabinet and independent federal agencies are responsible for the day-to-day enforcement and administration of federal laws. These departments and agencies have missions and responsibilities as widely divergent as those of the Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency, the Social Security Administration and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Including members of the armed forces, the Executive Branch employs more than 4 million Americans.
The russian federation chapter
Legislation Process in the Russian Federation
Render the following material in English making full expanded sentences and using the previous active vocabulary.
Special vocabulary
законопроект – draft law (bill concerns only English or American legislation terminology)
Государственная Дума – the State Duma
Совет Федерации – the Federation Council
Конституционный Суд – Constitutional Court
Верховный Суд – Supreme Court
Высший Арбитражный суд – Supreme Arbitrazh Court
субъект федерации – constituent entity
пленарное заседание – plenary meeting
обнародование - publication
по истечении 10 дней - upon 10 days expiration
Законодательный процесс в Российской Федерации.
Основная задача Федерального Собрания – это принятие законов.
Принятие федерального закона.
I этап: Внесение законопроекта в Государственную Думу
II этап: Обсуждение и принятие законопроекта в Государственной Думе;
III этап: Обсуждение и принятие законопроекта в Совете Федерации.
IV этап: Подписание законопроекта Президентом РФ.
I этап: Внесение законопроекта в Государственную Думу
Президент РФ, Совет Федерации, Государственная Дума, Правительство РФ, законодательные
органы субъектов федерации, Конституционный суд, Верховный Суд, Высший Арбитражный суд по вопросам ведения процессов.
II этап: обсуждение законопроекта в Государственной Думе:
Делится на несколько стадий:
I стадия: разработка законопроекта в комитете или комиссии Государственной Думы.
II стадия – обсуждение и принятие законопроекта на пленарном заседании Государственной Думы, которое проходит в трёх чтениях:
Первое чтение – при этом депутаты принимают решение о необходимости принятия закона;
Второе чтение – при этом депутаты решают вопрос о принятии законопроекта за основу, предварительно законопроект обсуждается, рассматривается детально и постатейно;
Третье чтение – окончательное принятие законопроекта Государственной Думой – федеральный закон считается принятым, если за него проголосовало большинство членов Государственной Думы (т.е. более 226 человек).
III этап: принятие и обсуждение законопроекта в Совете Федерации.
Закон считается принятым Советом Федерации, если за него проголосовало большинство членов.
Если Совет Федерации не рассмотрел законопроект в течение 14 дней, то он считается автоматически принятым
IV этап: подписание закона Президентом РФ.
Президент РФ подписывает закон в течение 14 дней. Если он не подписывает законопроект в течение этого времени, то он передает его на рассмотрение в Государственную Думу и Совет Федерации.
Если при повторном рассмотрении федеральный закон будет одобрен Советом Федерации и Государственной Думой большинством не менее 2/3 от общего числа членов Совета Федерации и Государственной Думы, он подлежит подписанию Президентом РФ в течение 7 дней и опубликование полного текста закона в «Российской газете» или «Собрании Законодательства РФ». Закон вступает в силу одновременно на всей территории РФ по истечении 10 дней после опубликования.