- Enseignant-e: Fathi Ahmed
This course will attempt to cover key legal subjects, including, but not limited to treaty law and the international human rights law. Rather than being a tutorial in legal studies proper, this course is an endeavour to understand, from a linguist's standpoint, the key concepts in this knowledge area, but also the main writing techniques and distinctive features of the legal discourse. The material will be drawn from a wide variety of sources ranging from magazine articles to publications of international organizations. Students will be encouraged to do their own research and share their findings with the rest of the class.
At the end of this course, students should be able to translate, with fair confidence, different types of legal texts that come their way.. They shall have decent knowledge of the constituent elements of the legal discourse and a broad understanding of most common legal terminology.