Legal English - Oral Skills

EN 026 - Summer 2010

 

Joseph Pettigrew

CELOP 207

617-353-7838

jpettigr@bu.edu

 

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Oral Presentation Assignment #1:  Legal Issue in Your Country

• Class handout:  Legal Issue in Your Country _1st Presentation_.pdf

 

 

High & Low Context Cultures (PowerPoint)

• High & Low Context Cultures (Legal English).pps

 

High & Low Context Cultures - Links to interesting sites

• CHARACTERISTICS OF HALL'S HIGH- AND LOW-CONTEXT CULTURES (chart)
• High-context and Low-context Culture Styles (textbook chapter summary)
• High Context vs. Low Context Communication (blog post)

• Hall's cultural factors (summary with charts)

• A Quick Guide to Cultural Competency  (short pdf)

• Individualism, Collectivism, High And Low Context (online PPT)

   

 

Oral Presentation Assignment #2:  Group Presentation

  

Supreme Court Decisions	Link to the Full SC Decision (downloadable pdf)	Related NPR Stories (most with transcripts)
Gun Rights	http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-1521.pdf	http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128182208
Limits on Campaign Spending by Corporations	http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf	http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122805666   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128085787
Petition Signers' Identity	http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/09-559.pdf	http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126290385

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

 

SJC-10617 - Commonweath v. Fernandez

 

Case Docket on the SJC Website

http://www.ma-appellatecourts.org/display_docket.php?dno=SJC-10617

 

Definition of Curtilage

http://definitions.uslegal.com/c/curtilage

 

Appellant Fernandez Brief

http://www.ma-appellatecourts.org/?brief=SJC-10617_01_Appellant_Fernandez_Brief\pdf

  

Appellee Commonwealth Brief

http://www.ma-appellatecourts.org/?brief=SJC-10617_03_Appellee_Commonwealth_Brief.pdf

 

Video of the Oral Argument before the SJC

http://www.suffolk.edu/sjc/archive/2010/SJC_10617.html