English for Law Undergraduates: A Stepping-Stone Course

ENGLISH FOR LAW UNDERGRADUATES. A STEPPING-STONE COURSE is a preliminary stage in Lomonosov MSU course of legal English for academic purposes. Its objectives and materials are focused on the enhancement of reading, writing, speaking, listening and critical thinking skills through the tasks based on multifold relations between processes of speech and thinking. It includes authentic texts in the most general law-related areas, such as definitions of law; positive law, state, church and law; common law and civil law; becoming a lawyer; judges and society; law and morality; civil law and criminal law; youth justice; substantive and procedural law; capital punishment. ENGLISH FOR LAW UNDERGRADUATES. A STEPPING-STONE COURSE integrates and applies the achievements in linguistic research concerning discourse analysis, combinability and choice of words, language for special purposes, cognitive linguistics, to name but a few. All the above makes it challenging and useful for those who are interested in law, economics, history, sociology, politics, languages, etc. no matter whether they are taking Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree programmes or postgraduate course.