Instructor: Judith L. Holdsworth
Rechtsanwältin
deKieffer & Horgan
Saarbrücken
http://www.dhlaw.de
English Legal Terminology
University of the Saarland
Summer Semester 2004
Course Schedule and Materials
Course Manuscript (in Adope Acrobat *.pdf format, 130 k)
Appendix 1 to Manuscript, Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1893]
Supplementary Materials to Course Manuscript
I. Characteristics of Anglo-American Legal Language
II. Law and Language
Plain Language in Law
Legal Writing 201
Gender-Free Legal Writing
III. Guidelines for Clear and Effective Use of Legal English
IV. Organization of the Judiciary in the United States
The United States
Constitution
Geographic Boundaries of U.S. Federal Courts
Organization of the Judiciary in Massachusetts
U.S. Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure
V. Judicial Procedure in the United States
Discovery Request - Jones' Second Set of Questions for Clinton
Pleadings in Anderson v. Beatrice Foods
Sample
Jury Instructions (*.pdf format, 620 k)
1970 Hague Convention on the Taking of
Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters
Société Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale v. U.S. District
Court for the South District of Iowa
VI. Reading U.S. Cases
Writing a Case Brief (*.pdf format, 90 k)
Complete Text of Fuentes v. Tucker
Instructions for Case Briefs (*.pdf format, 60 k)
Get Smart About the Case Method -
LawNerds
How
to Brief a Case - C J Ed
How to Brief a Case - John Jay
College of Criminal Justice
How to Brief a Case - Prof. E. C.
Martin
Instructions for Research Papers
(Papers that do not comply with these instructions will be rejected)
Research Topics
Last edited 02/04/04 by Christopher Deutsch