APT - English Legal Terminology - Prof. Robert Turk
APT - English Legal Terminology - Prof. Robert TurkNote: our first course meeting will be on Tuesday 31 January 2012; then our next (second) meeting of our course will be on Thursday 9 February; (we will not meet on Thursday 2 Feb. and not on Tuesday 7 Feb.). Watch for any schedule changes.
Sometimes we will have certain writing or reading assignments in connection with our various course topics; Prof. Turk is compiling that list of APT assignments, the first of which is described below.)
All APT students (both redni & izredni) are invited to our first class meeting on:
Tuesday (torek) 31 Jan. 2011 at 12:oo noon in the Red Room
(but please watch for any late changes to our day/hour/room).
To prepare, students should print the English text of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
at www.un.org/en/documents/udhr
and the Slovenian text of the Declaration, which can be obtained at the above internet site, by clicking 'resources'.
For your first APT assignment (which you can deliver at our next course meeting on Thursday 9 February)...
1. Compare the English and Slovenian texts of the Declaration. Then make a list of all English words which are unfamiliar to you. Print that list on your computer if possible (rather than hand-writing your list), and deliver it at our next class (9 Feb.). Note that you need only to make your list of unfamiliar English words: you do not need to define those words, etc. for Prof. Turk, but hopefully you will look for the meaning of those unfamiliar words, and so try to build your own vocabulary.
2. Then on a separate printed page, answer these questions:
-What is a 'preamble' and what is its purpose in this Declaration?
-How many articles are in this Declaration?
-How could you sub-divide these articles into various groups to help you remember the kind of rights involved? Write how.
-Can you think of more than one way to sub-divide these articles into different groups? How?
-Since this was designed to be a 'universal' declaration for 'Everyone, Everywhere', can you imagine which words or ideas could have been the most problematic in finding agreement among many different peoples/states in the United Nations? Try to give some examples.
At the top of any/all assignments that you deliver to Prof. Turk, please put these 3 lines at the top of the first page only:
Your PRIIMEK, your IME (Redni or Izredni Program)
Date Delivered: _______
English Legal Terminology (Prof. Robert Turk) Spring/Summer Term 2012
University of Ljubljana Law Faculty Assignment # 1
(Note that by using the above format, you will facilitate reading/handling of your assignments. Write all 3 lines exactly as above on the top left & top right) of your page one of your assignment, except filling-in your own name and hand-writing your delivery date.)
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