Unit One Legal System
Listening
I. c a d a b
II. statutes, constitutions, cite, interpreted, civil, cas, liability, created, modified, repealed
Text A.
Building up your vocabulary
I. Match the items in the following two columns
A-civil law b-code c-validity d-jurisdiction e-cluster
f-decree g-codification h-statute i-parliament j-legislature
II. Fill in the blanks:
1. subdivision 2. maxim 3. federal 4. enforcement 5. statutes
6. precedent 7. Legislation 8.Stare decisis 9. legal ,legal 10. judicial , judicial
Cloze
Documents lawsuit trial attorneys 月光族是什么意思啊 advisors,
Clients juries alternative practice reprentation
刘恕Translation
1. 根据美国宪法，联邦政府分为行政、立法和司法三大部门，每个部门都被认为是独立的，并且能够相互制衡。
2. 通常有三类案件可以到达最高法院，即：牵涉到诉讼当事人分属不同的州的案件，牵涉到解释联邦法案的案件和解释美国宪法的案件。
3. 大律师事务所的律师平均收入最高；他们常常代理那些最有钱且最有社会地位的当事人；
而且同高层次的法官和政府官员有着密切的联系。个人执业者和小律师事务所的律师收入最低，代理那些既没钱又没社会地位的当事人，而且主要同最低级别的法院和行政机构打交道。
4. 州立大学的法学院倾向于集中在一些传统的法律课程上：契约、侵权行为、宪法、诉讼程序、财产、遗嘱、信托与遗产、公司、合伙、代理、国际法、海商法、劳动法、行政法；私立法学院由于规模略小且师生人数比例一般较大，故有条件开设品种更多的课程，在新的、开拓中的领域尤其如此。这些私立法学院的课程目录中都列有诸如精神病学与法学、法学与社会学、城市法、贫困法、环境法、城市财政、土地规划等方面的课程或小楷心经研讨班。
5. 英美法系的法官比起他们大陆法系的同行们来威信更高，其部分原因在于人们一般都觉得只有较优秀的律师才能当得上法官。尽管任命和遴选有其政治背景，这一结论恐怕还是大致符合实际情况的。
恍恍Text B
Check Your Understanding.
1. T 2. F 3. F 4.T 5.F 6.T 7.T 8.F 9.F 10.T
Building up your vocabulary.
I. Give the corresponding translation of each of the following terms.
English | Chine |
有仓设计jurisdiction | 司法权 |
writ of certiorari | 食尚大转盘诉讼文件[案卷]调取令 |
ssion | 开庭 |
Circuit court | 巡回法庭 |
Claims Court | 求偿法院 |
petition | 诉状 |
arbiter | 仲裁者 |
felony | 重罪 |
Appellate Courts | 上诉法院 |
conviction | 定罪 |
misdemeanors | 轻罪 |
| |
II. Put the following terms into Chine.
Probate or surrogate’s courts遗嘱检验法庭 juvenile courts少年法庭
Tax Court税务法院 Court of International Trade国际贸易法院
Bankrupcy Courts破产法院 时间有关的名言appellate court巡回法院
Attorney General司法部长 Court of Military Appeals军事上诉法院
The Corut of Veterans Appeals退伍上诉法院 Trial court受理法院
Translation
1.The National People's Congress (NPC) is the highest institution of state power and together with its permanent body --- the Standing Committee of the NPC, exercis the legislative power of the state.
2.The NPC Standing Committee's power of legislation is not without restraints. Compared
with the legislative power of the NPC, the Standing Committee may not amend the Constitution. But it is authorized:
(1) to interpret the Constitution and supervi its enforcement;
(2) to enact and amend laws, with the exception of tho which should be enacted by the NPC;
(3) to partially supplement and amend, when the NPC is not in ssion, laws enacted by the NPC provided that the basic principles of the laws are not contravened;
(4) to interpret laws.
3.In accordance with the structure of the lawmaking powers, Chine law can be divided into four levels, i.e., the Constitution, laws adopted by the NPC and its Standing Committee, administrative regulations adopted by the State Council and local regulations by the people's congress of provinces, autonomous regions and cities.
4.General laws include the Constitution, the General Principles of Civil Law, the Civil Procedure Law, and the Criminal Law etc. Special legislation include legislation dealing with foreign investments, such as the Joint Venture Law, the Wholly Foreign-owned Enterpris Law, the Foreign Economic Contract Law, and legislation governing matters such as registration of business, labor and management, taxation, exchange control, financial matters, customs duties etc.
Unit Two CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Listening
I.Spot dictation.
Declaration, human, political, assume, nature, impel, lf-evident,
Creator, unalienable, institute, Prudence, abolishing , throw off , usurpations
II. Compound dictation.
a fundamental right
the right to be left alone
no explicit guarantee of privacy in the Constitution
source of privacy cured by the First Amendment冒的成语
unreasonable arches and izures
TEXT A
Building up your vocabulary
I. Match the items in the following two columns.
1.k 2..g 3.b 4.f 5.j 6.l 7.h 8.a 9.e 10.d 11.c 12.i
II.Fill in the blanks
1. ascertaining,
2. statutory interpretation.
3. prolixity, a ready solution
4. power of the pur, commander-in-chief
5. checks and balances
6. unreasonable arches and izures
7. standing
8. elimination of racial discrimination, accommodation, badges of rvitude
