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Course Syllabus

2025/2026

English for Specific Purposes. Legal English - 1

Type: Optional course
Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages
Where: School of Foreign Languages
When: 1, 2 module
Open to: students of one campus
Instructors: Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Borzova, Elena V. Paramonova
Language: English
Contact hours: 48

Course Syllabus

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Abstract

The program is for the 1st-year students (Bachelor's degree program "Jurisprudence" and "Digital Lawyer""). The program is designed to develop foreign-language communicative and professional competencies that is based on the “The Conceptual Framework for Developing Students' Foreign Language Competencies in Bachelor's, Specialist's, and Master's Degree Programs at National Research University Higher School of Economics” and adheres to the "Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessments of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics”. The course is focused on basic professional terminology and knowledge of legal professions, litigation and arbitration, criminal law and company law within the framework of Anglo-Saxon and American law. The course supports both classroom and home assignments (online course). There are no blocking points of assessment. The prerequisites are: the students should pass a placement test and have 70 points minimum.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • - to improve student’s ability to read and understand law journal articles, commercial legislation, legal texts, legal correspondence;
  • - to increase student’s comprehension of spoken English (legal topics in lectures, presentations, interviews, discussions, etc);
  • - to strengthen student’s speaking and writing skills in a range of situations typical of the study of law and the practice of law (client interview, act out in court etc.);
  • - to develop an understanding of the law and consolidate language skills;
  • - to engage in designing a contract or employment contract;
  • - to read or listen to legal articles, letters, proposals, client interviews or presentations.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • One knows the general overview of university law courses as its starting point and practical skills required for careers in law, and different routes to legal profession;
  • One distinguishes the main types of legal professions and lawyers, especially in common law countries;
  • One knows the main areas of law in common law;
  • One improves the presentation skills; and uses legal English in discussions and presentations confident in their ability and knowledge.
  • One distinguishes crimes and torts (civil wrongs);
  • One knows the range of crimes and their categories;
  • One distinguishes street crimes and white-collar crimes, identity theft and its types;
  • One knows the purpose of punishment and types of punishment;
  • One organizes and presents ideas and statements in a clear, logical and appropriate way; and detects logical fallacies in arguments.
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • U1 A Career in Law
  • U2 Litigation and Arbitration
  • U3 Criminal Law
  • U4 Company Law
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Home Assignment
  • non-blocking Written Assessment
  • non-blocking Oral Assessment
  • non-blocking Final assessment
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2025/2026 2nd module
    0.3 * Final assessment + 0.25 * Home Assignment + 0.2 * Oral Assessment + 0.25 * Written Assessment
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Gary B. Born, & Peter B. Rutledge. (2007). International Civil Litigation in United States Courts. Aspen Publishers.
  • Legal English : how to understand and master the language of law, McKay, W. R., 2011
  • Лезёва, Т. И. Essential Legal English: Civil Law : учебно-методическое пособие / Т. И. Лезёва, Н. И. Еремкина. — Москва : РТУ МИРЭА, 2022. — 112 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/256613 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
  • Устинова, Е. В., Юридический английский для международного права = Legal English for International Law : учебное пособие / Е. В. Устинова, Ю. А. Егорова, С. И. Кузьминская. — Москва : КноРус, 2022. — 141 с. — ISBN 978-5-406-09094-7. — URL: https://book.ru/book/943599 (дата обращения: 04.07.2025). — Текст : электронный.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Civil litigation in comparative context, , 2017
  • Cole, T., & Ortolani, P. (2020). Understanding International Arbitration. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2275042
  • Company Law : Fundamental Principles, Griffin, S., 2000
  • Company law : fundamental principles, Griffin, S., 2006
  • Handbook of arbitration practice, Bernstein, R., 2000
  • Lawyers' Liabilities, Evans, H., 1996
  • Legal English for University Students : учебное пособие / О. А. Чепак, Е. М. Каурова, М. В. Черниговский [и др.]. — Улан-Удэ : БГУ, 2016. — 200 с. — ISBN 978-5-9793-0951-4. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/166866 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
  • Лезёва, Т. И. English for Law Students: Criminal Law : учебно-методическое пособие / Т. И. Лезёва, Е. Н. Арсентьева, Н. Г. Мишина. — Москва : РТУ МИРЭА, 2022. — 190 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/265769 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.

Authors

  • Burimskaia DIANA VALENTINOVNA
  • PARAMONOVA ELENA VLADIMIROVNA