Legal English

Author: Sha Lijin
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: With the further deepening of China's reform and opening-up, especially after China's accession to the WTO, the demand for high-quality compound talents who are proficient in foreign languages and familiar with legal knowledge has been increasing. To meet this requirement, teachers with rich experience in English teaching and a background in legal education have jointly compiled this book, hoping to contribute to the cultivation of talents in the country. The compilation of this book follows the laws of language learning and the characteristics of legal English, striving to make it scientific, practical, and targeted. In terms of content, it primarily introduces major legal systems and branches of law worldwide, with each unit aiming to reflect the main content of a specific branch of law and cover related legal terms. In terms of exercise arrangement, it focuses on cultivating students' skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation, using legal knowledge as the content, to comprehensively improve the legal English proficiency of students and other learners of legal English. The exercise sections include: reading comprehension, terminology exercises, cloze, short passage translation, dictation, supplementary reading, word meaning differentiation, and discussion. This book is intended for first-year graduate students in law and learners of similar proficiency levels. The book consists of a total of 20 units.