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 Schedule

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

Case Studies

Instructions for Research Papers
(Papers that do not comply with these instructions will be rejected)

Research Topics

Student Evaluation Criteria

Last edited 02/04/04 by Christopher Deutsch