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 March
8-12, 2010
- Practice your listening and speaking skills
- Enhance your legal reading and writing
- Ideal for busy legal practitioners who need
immediate results
-Practice your American Legal English
with professors of American University's Washington
College of Law.
-Enhance your legal writing,
negotiation, and speaking skills with English for
Legal Purposes specialists.
What is the Legal English
Institute?
The WCL Legal English Institute at Sergio Arboleda
is designed to introduce practitioners to legal
English concepts. Through daily lectures, written
assignments and in-class exercises, participants
whose native language is not English will practice a
wide array of legal English skills ranging from
legal reading and writing strategies to oral
presentation of substantive legal issues in American
contract law.
Sessions will meet from 9:00 - 3:00 Monday through
Friday. There will be breaks in the morning and for
lunch. Participants are expected to take part in
class exercises and complete homework assignments.
The small class size and student-teacher meetings
ensure individual attention.
Participants in the WCL Legal English Institute at
Sergio Arboleda will receive a Certificate of
Attendance upon successful completion of the legal
English program.
Institute Overview
Program Outline
The
program covers the basics of the US Legal system and
US contract law. The lessons could include:
- Introduction to American Legal Institutions
- Fundamentals of U.S Contract Law
- Effective Legal Drafting Workshop
Listening and Speaking
With the aim of preparing participants for
real-world situations such as client meetings,
conference calls, and negotiations, the WCL Legal
English Institute at Sergio Arboleda incorporates
exercises that focus on listening, speaking and
writing skills, while immersing the
participants in legal English language.
Legal Writing
Writing exercises will focus on clear and accurate
expression, effective legal style, and organization.
Participants will draft short legal summaries,
business letters, contract provisions and
professional e-mails. Brief exercises throughout
the course will lay the foundation for an intensive
workshop on the last day of the course that will put
the participants’ legal writing skills into
practice.
Teachers
The teachers of the WCL Legal English Institute at
Sergio Arboleda are adjunct professors at the
American University's Washington College of Law and
have been working with international students for
many years at all levels of proficiency. They have
taught many different kinds of legal English courses
both in Washington, DC and abroad.
LEI
Program Information
Tuition fee: $1´900.000
Deadline: March 1, 2010
Tuition Fee for Early registration
and alumni: $1´710.000
Deadline: February 19, 2010.
Payment
is due upon registration. Payment can be made by
credit card or by direct deposit to the University´s
account. Please note that the tuition fee is
non-refundable.
Questions:
If you have any questions about the
program, please contact us at:
legalenglish@usa.edu.co
Phone Contac: (571) 3216406
For more information please contact:
WCL Legal English Institute -
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Calle 74 #14-14 - Bogotá - Colombia
REGISTRATION [+]
Teachers Bios
Donna Bain Butler is adjunct
associate professor, American University’s
International Legal Studies Program, English for
Legal Purposes (8 years). She is completing her
Ph.D. in Second Language Education and Culture at
the University of Maryland College Park,
specializing in discourse for international lawyers.
Relevant U.S. experience includes work as English
oral proficiency tester with the U.S. Department of
Justice, FBI Language Services Unit (1998-2004) and
work as advisor with the American Councils for
International Education for legal English fellows
from Russia and Georgia in the Junior Faculty
Development Program (2002-2003 and 2010). Professor
Bain Butler is co-editor of recent editions of
Teaching and Learning to Near-Native Levels of
Language Proficiency: Proceedings of the Fall
Conferences of the Coalition of Distinguished
Language Centers.
Kevin J. Fandl is a federal
attorney and the Director of the Executive
Secretariat for U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement. He has been an adjunct law professor
at the American University Washington College of Law
since 2004, teaching courses on international trade
and development law, intellectual property, and
advanced legal writing. He has taught many courses
on subjects such as international business, economic
development, and introduction to the U.S. legal
system in places such as the Universidad de Chile
(Santiago), la Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá),
and for the International Law Institute in the
Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo). |
