2. Answer the following questions.

1. What is public law about?

2. What role does the public law play in civil-law and common-law countries?

3. What does administrative law deal with?

4. Why is a judicial review important?

5. How is the public law nature of criminal law emphasized?

3. Decide whether the statements are true or false.

1. There is a clear distinction between public law and private law in Great Britain and the U.S.

2. The U.S. has no written constitution.

3. The development of administrative law has a long history.

4. Crimes are defined similarly in Great Britain and in the USA.

5. The government intervention in areas where moral attitudes are in significant conflict has always been debated.

4. Match the terms to their definitions.

codify litigate 3.adjudicate 4.allocate 5.invalidate 6.custom 7.judicial decision 8.judicial opinion 9.constitution 10.equality

to officially decide who is right in a disagreement and decide what should be done; to arrange laws, principles, acts in a system; long established habit or tradition; to take a claim or complaint against someone to a court of law; to make a document, ticket, claim, etc. no longer legally or officially acceptable f) to use smth. for a particular purpose, give smth. to a particular person, etc. especially after an official decision has been made; judgement of court; when people have the same legal rights; a court's written statement explaining its decision in a given case; a set of basic laws or principles for a country that describe the rights and duties of its citizens and the way in which it is governed.

5. Choose the correct word.

1. Students study … at university.

a. law b. legal c. legislature d. lawful

2. Laws … behaviour between people in all societies.

a. ensure b. establish c. govern d. protect

3. If you … the law, you may go to prison.

a. obey b. apply c. break d. pass

4. Is it against the law to help somebody to … a crime?

a. make b. commit c. occur d. do

5. Continental systems are known as … legal systems.

a. codified b. coded c. codification d. codificate

6. In order to separate the roles of the legislature and …, it was necessary to make laws that were clear and comprehensive.

a. judiciary b. jurisprudence c. judicial d. judicial

7.Contract law is a branch of law relating to legally … agreements between people or companies .

a. bind b. bound c. binding d. bond

8. The court … doesn’t satisfy us.

a. rule b. ruling c. regulation d. law

9. It is… to sell tobacco to someone under 16.

a. illegal b. unjust c. against d. untrue

10. Judges have to … existing precedents to each new case.

a. apply b. enforce c. execute d. accept