Company Law

UNIVERSIDAD REGIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE LOS ANDES

LAW SCHOOL

CAREER: LAW

FORMATIVE MODULE

LAW ENGLISH IV

FOURTH LEVEL

INDICE

Contenido

UNIVERSIDAD REGIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE LOS ANDES 1

University’s vision and mission 2

Career’s vision and mission 4

6. LEVEL´S LEARNING OUTCOMES 8

CAREER´S LEARNING OUTCOMES 8

ARTICULATION I 9

THE PRACTICE OF LAW 9

PART I THE LEGAL SYSTEM 9

Bodies of law 9

Types of Law in Ecuador 10

TYPES OF LAWS 12

Speaking 1: Explaining what a law says. 13

Types of court 14

The court system in Ecuador 15

Speaking 2: Civil court systems 15

Listening 1: Documents in court 17

Legal Latin 19

Part II: A career in the law 20

Listening 2: Lawyers 20

Legal education: A call to the bar 21

Lawyer´s curriculum vitae 22

Listening 3: Law firm structure 24

Speaking 3: Describing a law firm 25

27 Look at the following phrases used by Mr. Nichols to describe the firm. Which can be used to speak of a department or company, and which of a person? Which can be used for both? 25

Is/ are headed by ……. 25

Is / are assisted by …… 25

Listening 4: Practice areas. 25

Listening 5: Law firm culture. 27

ARTICULATION II 29

Company law: company formation and management 29

Reading 1: Introduction to company law 29

Key terms: Roles in company management 30

Listening 1: Company formation 31

Reading 2: Memorandum of association 34

Language use: Shall and may 35

Listening 2: forming a business in the UK 35

Speaking: Informal presentation: a type of company 37

Reading 3: Corporate governance 37

Homework activities 41

ARTICULATION IV 72

Contracts: contract formation 72

Reading 1: Introduction to contract formation 72

Key terms: Defenses to contract formation 74

Text analysis: Understanding contract 74

4 .Contracts andAgreements definitions. 76

Listening : Negotiating . 76

Writing: An informative memo 77

Listening 2 : Contract negotiation 79

LANGUAGE USE 2 : Negotiating expressions 79

Language use Adverbs 84

CONTRACTS: REMEDIES. 86

Legal Remedies for the Protection of Fundamental Rights 87

Key terms: Types of damages. 88

Language use: Talking about court actions and rulings 88

Listening: A Danish remedy 88

Speaking 1: Contract remedies. 89

Listening 2: Remedies 89

Text analysis: Initial interview with a client. 90

Speaking 2: Initial interview with a client 93

GLOSARY 98

University’s vision and mission

MISSION

To form professionals of the right with critic and reflexive spirit, competitive ethical with freedom thinking and identified ideological pluralism with the social sectors requirements through knowledge and development of the juridical sciences and of the administration of justice in their modalities to contribute to the necessities of the regional ,national and local development with responsibility , humanism, respect to the validity from the democratic order to the guarantees of the civic human rights and of the nature it makes aware solidary and social participation.

VISION

The law Science career will be recognized in the national and international environment by a quality and academic formation, relevance with educational of fourth level linked with the productive and social sectors of the formative researching and of the artificial science tending to the development of the universal thought and deploy of the scientific production to contribute to the constitutional state of rights and justice in the mark from the intercultural equality of opportunities, respect to the human rights and good living of citizens.

Career’s vision and mission

MISSION

To form professionals of the law with critic and reflexive spirit, competitive ethical with freedom thinking and identified ideological pluralism with the social sectors requirements through knowledge and development of the juridical sciences and of the administration of justice in their modalities to contribute to the necessities of the regional ,national and local development with responsibility , humanism, respect to the validity from the democratic order to the guarantees of the civic human rights and of the nature it makes aware solidary and social participation.

VISION

The law Science career will be recognized in the national and international environment by a quality and academic formation, relevance with educational of fourth level linked with the productive and social sectors of the formative researching and of the artificial science tending to the development of the universal thought and deploy of the scientific production to contribute to the constitutional state of rights and justice in the mark from the intercultural equality of opportunities, respect to the human rights and good living of citizens.

PRESENTATION

English is spoken as first or second language, by more people in the world than any other language. English has become the language of science and technology and is used by scientists throughout the world to communicate. English is also the most exact language in the world; it is possible to write about something without there being any possible misinterpretation of its meaning. English also has the largest vocabulary of any language and so it has the greatest descriptive power, nevertheless a large quantity of professionals don´t realize of this fact.

The use of language is crucial to any legal system, not only in the same way that it is crucial to politics in general, but in the special respect that lawmakers typically use language to make the law, and courts typically use language to state their grounds of decision. So law students need a good philosophical understanding of the meaning and use of language.

This module is aimed to allow students to take and become familiar with the legal English with the intention of communicate in a proper way and strengthen communication skills in the legal context.

In this module students are going to identify, compare, apply, analyze and debate about different topics and situations in the legal system, as well identifying and use different grammar structures in order to build correct written

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