Introduction 1
Chapter One The Different Features of Legal English 3
Unit 1 Overview of Legal English Vocabulary 5
Typical Features of Legal English Vocabulary 5
The Common Prefix and Suffix of Legal English 12
Unit 2 Overview of Legal English Sentence 14
Characteristics of the Syntactic Structure of Legal English 14
Typical Legal English Sentence Translation 18
Chapter Two Introduction to American Legal System 25
Unit 1 Legal Systems 27
Text:Legal Systems 27
Supplementary Reading:Civil Law System 31
Unit 2 Legal Education 34
Text:American Legal Education 34
Supplementary Reading:Legal Education in the U.S 38
Unit 3 Legal Profession 44
Text:American Legal Profession 44
Supplementary Reading:Judges 49
Unit 4 Constitution Ⅰ 51
Text:The Contents of American Constitution 51
Supplementary Reading:The Amendments 64
Unit 5 Constitution Ⅱ 74
Text:The Theories of American Constitution 74
Supplementary Reading:British Constitution 81
Unit 6 Court System 87
Text:American Court System 87
Supplementary Reading:British Court System 92
Unit 7 Jury System 95
Text:Jury System 95
Supplementary Reading:The Supreme Court of the United States 100
Unit 8 Administrative Law 104
Text:American Administrative Law 104
Supplementary Reading:Administrative Law 112
Unit 9 Civil Law 116
Text:Copyright Law 116
Supplementary Reading:Civil Rights Act of 1964 121
Unit 10 Contract Law 144
Text:Contract Law 144
Supplementary Reading:Real Property Law 151
Unit 11 Criminal Law 161
Text:American Criminal Law 161
Supplementary Reading:American Criminal Procedure Law 167
Chapter Three Case Studies 175
Unit 1 Case Study Methods 177
How to Understand English Case 177
How to Brief a Case 179
Case Terms Abbreviated 184
Unit 2 Typical Case Studies 189
Case 1 Marbury v.Madison(1803) 189
Case 2 Brown v.Board of Education(1954) 199
Case 3 Miranda v.Arizona(1966) 206
Case 4 Gibbons v.Ogden(1824) 212
Case 5 United States v.Nixon(1974) 234
Case 6 World-wide Volkswagen Corp.v.Woodson(1980) 239
Case 7 Pennoyer v.Neff(1877) 248
Case 8 Milliken v.Meyer(1940) 262
Case 9 International Shoe Co.v.State of Washington(1945) 267
Case 10 United States et al.v.Locke et al.(1985) 276
Appendix Moot Court 293
References 297