Maestría
Matices de estilo, variedades del inglés, humor, ironía y lenguaje literario.
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Legal English, Part 1 of 3: legalese vs plain English
How legal and administrative English works: hereby, herein, thereof, pursuant to, notwithstanding, subject to, and why contracts repeat nouns instead of using pronouns.
Legal English, Part 2 of 3: shall, may and must in legal drafting
Modal verbs in contracts and regulations: shall for obligation, may for permission, shall not and may not for prohibition, and the plain-language move to must.
Legal English, Part 3 of 3: who's who in a case
The people in a court case and what they are called in the US and the UK, plus the false friends process, sentence, magistrate and «abogado».
Word web: the courtroom and its people
The vocabulary of a court case mapped by people, actions and outcomes, with the verb + noun collocations that Spanish speakers usually get wrong.
Transformations: from legalese to plain English and back
Rewrite legal formulas in everyday English and plain sentences as precise formal drafting: nominalization, agentless passives, and formulas such as without prejudice to and for the avoidance of doubt.
Mastery vocabulary: Latin in legal and academic English
Latin phrases in legal, academic and press English: "bona fide", "de facto", "pro bono", "ad hoc", "per se", "inter alia", "prima facie", "sub judice", "ex officio" and "quid pro quo", with their English pronunciation.
Contrast: sue, prosecute, charge, accuse
Near-synonyms that Spanish tends to merge: sue, prosecute, charge and accuse with their prepositions; crime, offense and misdemeanor; law, act, bill and statute; guilty, liable and responsible.
Spiral review: passives and the mandative subjunctive in official texts
Review passive reporting structures and the mandative subjunctive in legal contexts: It is hereby ordered that the defendant be released.
Mastery check: legal English
A hint-free check of the whole unit: legal formulas, modals in drafting, the people of a court case, Latin terms, near-synonyms, a notice to read closely and a plain-English rewrite.
Drill: Legal Formulas, Drafting Modals and the People in a Case
Read and produce legal formulas such as hereby, pursuant to and notwithstanding, use shall, may and must exactly as drafters do, and name the people and steps of a court case without the Spanish false friends.
Drill: Rewrites, Latin, Near-Synonyms and Official Grammar
Move between legalese and plain English, use Latin terms with their real English meaning, choose between sue, prosecute, charge and accuse or guilty and liable, and write official passives and subjunctives, mixing the whole unit.
Unit 1 review: Legal and Administrative English
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in "Legal and Administrative English", then translate three sentences.
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