论法律英语写作教学:方法、内容与观点

On the Teaching Method,Content and Opinion of Legal English Writing

法律英语写作是法律专业学生必修的一门课程,它要求学生具有深厚的法学知识和良好的英语表达能力,两者缺一不可。而如何用英语来表达自己的法律观点,如何用英语撰写好各类法律英语应用文体是法律英语写作教学过程中必须要处理好的一个重要问题。该文从法律英语写作的方法着手,分析了法律英语写作中法律思维的培养、法律概念和原理的掌握与词汇、短语、句型的运用以及篇章的布局和安排;探讨了法律英语应用文的写作格式;列举了法律英语写作的内容,在此基础上提出了改革和完善法律英语写作教学内容,提高学生法律英语写作水平的建议。

Legal English writing is a very important course to be taken by Law majors in China,which demands that the students be good at legal knowledge and English expression.This article researches into how the law majors learn to express their legal opinions in English,how to write non-literary articles by analyzing the writing methods first,then it is pointed out that the writing methods are achieved on the basis of the development of legal logic,the grasp of legal concepts,principles as well as legal vocabulary,phrase,sentence patterns and so on.At last,the author makes a list of the content of legal English writing and suggestions are also made to improve the content of legal Eng lish writing.