Course: Legal Spanish

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Course title Legal Spanish
Course code KRS/PSTP
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Spanish
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Klabal Ondřej, Mgr. et Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Zámec Radim, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The course coveres the following topics: 1) Fundamental characteristics of legal Spanish (Rasgos del espa?ol jurídico) 2) Fundamental legal concepts (Conceptos básicos de derecho) 3) Sources of law (Fuentes de derecho) 4) Contract law (Contratos) 5) Civil procedure (Enjuiciamiento civil) 6) Business law (Derecho mercantil) 7) Criminal law (Derecho penal) 8) Criminal procedure (Enjuiciamiento penal) 9) Notarial deeds (Acta notarial) 10) Family law (Derecho de familia) Not all of the above topic will be necessarily covered depending on the time available and the preferences of students.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
Learning outcomes
This course provides a contrastive overview of selected legal branches and related Spanish and Czech legal and administrative terminology. The course focuses both on translation from Czech to Spanish and from Spanish to Czech. Students are assigned translation tasks involving real-life documents, mainly from Spain. Grammatical pecularities of legal Spanish are also discussed as well as the theory and practice of legal translation in general.
Students acquire basic knowledge of the lexis of legal and administrative texts in Spanish. Students are able to translate selected (not only) legal documents from and to Spanish and use online and lexicographic resources available to translators.
Prerequisites
Active knowledge of Czech is required.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
1) Regular attendance (a maximum of 2 missed classes in a semester) 2) Active participation in classes and completion of any tasks assigned. 3) Final test focusing on terminology and phraseology (pass mark: 75%)
Recommended literature
  • ? Aguado Renedo, Ce?sar a Alfredo Montoya Melgar. (2016). Diccionario juri?dico. Cizur Menor.
  • ? Alacaraz Varó, Enrique, Brian Hughes a Adelina Gómez. (2014). El espan?ol juri?dico. Barcelona.
  • Brynda, Jiří. (2013). Česko-španělský právnický a ekonomický slovník: Diccionario jurídico y económico checo-espa?ol. Brno.
  • Brynda, Jiří. (2007). Španělsko-český právnický a ekonomický slovník. Praha.
  • Font Barrot, Alfred a Jose? Lui?s Pérez Trivi?o. (2009). El derecho para no juristas: una gui?a para entender el sistema juri?dico. Barcelona.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Spanish philology with specialization in translation and interpreting (2020) Category: Philological sciences 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter