GLOBAL LAW

PROGRAM FOR 2015-2016 ACADEMIC YEAR

LECTURERS: MARK VITULLO, SUZANNE PERAINO,
RON KOOLS, AND ANDREW CARTWRIGHT

WEEK

WRITING

Introduction to
Course
The Legal
Writer and
Legal Prose
Legal and
Academic Style
and Register

Correspondence
I: Form and
Function of
Legal Letters
Argumentative
Writing: Topic
Focusing and
Issue
Formulation
Grammar 101:
Verb Tense
Argumentative
Writing II:
Thesis and
Introduction
Grammar:
Passive Voice
and Perspective
Argumentative
Writing III:
Introduction to
Compositional
Paragraphing

SPEAKING AND
PRESENTATION

Introduction to Academic Oral

Communication in English

Introduction to Public Speaking:

Speaking as a Medium
(Considerations on Speaking vs.
Writing)
The Fear Factor and the first
ninety seconds

7
8
9
10
11
12
13/14

Grammar:
Reported
Speech +
Attribution
Argumentative
Writing IV:
Argumentative
structure +
Argument
Fallacies and
Rhetorical
strategies
Future Tense
and Expression
Points for
revision
Conclusions and
reference
Grammar:
Condition and
Mode
Correspondence
II: The Letter as
a legal tool
A Special Topic
in Legal Writing:
The Attic versus
the Asiatic
Peer Review:
Writer, edit
thyself
Final Written
Test Preparation

Pet Peeve Exercise: Five minute

of Legal Aggravation and Remedy

Adaptation I: Learning to adapt

from written material into a
presentation
Accent reduction and
Improvement of Delivery

Adaptation II: Practicing your final

presentation
Focusing on key points and
improvisation (Q and A)

The Great Debate

(review condition and mode)

Presentations

FINAL GRADE ELEMENTS

FINAL PAPER

50% OF FINAL GRADE

FINAL PRESENTATION

30% OF FINAL GRADE

LANGUAGE USE EXAM 20% OF FINAL GRADE