Inglés Jurídico

Drafting and Editing Contracts in Plain Language

 

TIMETABLE: TUESDAY 5:00 T0 6:30 PM

Professor: RITA TINEO

English Level necessary for the course: Advanced

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 law 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

- Revisiting Plain Language Standards.

- Revisiting Text Structure: Super, macro and micro structures

- Revisiting the concept of "contract" in the Common Law System"

- 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.

T.P. RITA TINEO