INGLÉS JURÍDICO

Contracts in Plain Language

Drafting and Editing Business Structures Contracts (Corporations; Partnerships; LLCs) in Plain Language

Professor: Rita Tineo

English Level necessary for the course: Advanced (B1 / B2)

COURSE GENERAL AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

This course is aimed at providing the theoretical background necessary to understand the basic concepts of Plain Language according to the legislation passed in the U.S. and other English speaking countries. It shall also provide the terminology currently used in documents and bibliography with which the student may be faced if investigating those subjects. Through the revision of basic concepts, the students are going to be encouraged to make a comparison - whenever possible - with the Argentine aw system. It will provide a wide range of specific vocabulary which the student may find useful to work with. This course is aimed at students who are deeply interested in commercial and corporate as well as financial and banking subjects.

Likewise, the course is aimed at providing a basic frame which will be useful to understand legal writing  within the Common Law system and the  conceptual differences as compared to Civil Law Countries.

 

THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

- To review Plain Language Standards for legal documents

- To review Contract formation in the Common Law System

- To analyze terminology connected to contract law

- To compare contract formation in Continental Law vs. Common Law Systems

- To practice drafting of contracts

- To incorporate Editing Skills

- Revisiting Text Structure: Super, macro and micro structures

- Analyze the typical contract clauses. Boilerplate Clauses

- The typical structure of a contract.

- How to organize information in long and short contracts

- Use of tenses in contracts

PRACTICE

- Redraft sentences, paragraphs 

- Design of an editing protocol

- Edit and design your own contracts.

- Contract redrafting