FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEGAL FRENCH

knowledge and comprehension Through the reading and the detailed comprehension of the original version of some fundamental texts of French law, including the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, the preamble to the Constitution of 1946, the first articles of the 1958 Constitution and the 2004 Charter of environment, students will be encouraged to reflect on law as a linguistic fact: the morphological and syntactic features will be underlined, the specific vocabulary, terminology and phraseology will be presented and the different legal and administrative text types – such as the declaration, the constitution, the chart, law, law decrees, circulars, contracts, which will be shown in several examples – will be identified. ability to put knowledge and comprehension into practice The reading and detailed understanding of legal instruction documents, such as newspaper articles, encyclopedia entries, informational texts, will also aim to identify the peculiarities of French institutions and system (PACS, parcours de citoyenneté, loi de 1905 loi Toubon, Conseil des prud'hommes, abolition de la peine de mort ...) thus providing a comparison between French and Italian societies in the legal, social and political aspects and providing a pre-text to class interaction and reflection.

Fondamental texts of the french republic

Topics of actuallity in France (fredom, equality, brotherhood, secularism law,

Yougs and the law

Law and death

Values ans symbols of the french republi

Values ans symbols of the UE

"Pour une approche du français du droit" di R Curreri (c.u.e.c.m.)

All the newspapers articles'book must be updated with news newspapers'articles of this year about actuallity.