The Principle of the Rule of Law

ИНОСТРАННЫЙ ЯЗЫК

В ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОЙ СФЕРЕ

УЧЕБНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКОЕ ПОСОБИЕ

для магистрантов заочной формы

обучения по направлению подготовки

030900 Юриспруденция

(квалификация (степень) «магистр»)

Нижний Новгород, 2015

ВЕРХОВНЫЙ СУД РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ

ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОЕ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ БЮДЖЕТНОЕ

ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ

ВЫСШЕГО ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ

«РОССИЙСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ

УНИВЕРСИТЕТ ПРАВОСУДИЯ»

ПРИВОЛСКИЙ ФИЛИАЛ

Кафедра языкознания и иностранных языков

ИНОСТРАННЫЙ ЯЗЫК

В ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОЙ СФЕРЕ

УЧЕБНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКОЕ ПОСОБИЕ

ПО АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ

для магистрантов заочной формы

обучения по направлению подготовки

030900 Юриспруденция

(квалификация (степень) «магистр»)

Нижний Новгород, 2015

ББК 81.2 Англ

Автор-составитель: С.Г. Ватлецов, к.ф.н., доцент, доцент кафедры языкознания и иностранных языков ФГБОУВПО ПФ «РГУП».

Рецензент: Храмова Ю.Н.,к. пед. н., доцент, доцент кафедры языкознания и иностранных языков ПФ «РГУП».

Учебно-методическое пособие по дисциплине «Иностранный язык в профессиональной сфере» (английский язык) для магистрантов заочной формы обучения по направлению подготовки Юриспруденция (квалификация (степень) «магистр»). – Н. Новгород, 2015. – 16 с.

© ФГБОУВПО ПФ «РГУП», 2015.

© Ватлецов С.Г., 2015.

ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ

Assignment 1. Read the text The Principle ‘The Rule of Law’………………………5

Assignment 2. Answer the questions…………………………………………………7

Assignment 3. Read the text A Crime Mystery. It's Going down,

But No One Really Knows Why ……………………………………………………...8

Assignment 4. Choose any passage and translate it ………………………………..12

Assignment 5. Retell the text using the plan ………………………………………..12

Контрольное задание..............................................................................................13

Вопросы для подготовки к зачету……………………………………………....15

The Principle of the Rule of Law

1. The notion of “rule of law”, conceived by European nations as a common value and fundamental principle for greater unity, was recognised in the Statute of the Council of Europe of 1949 (ETS No. 1). This principle, together with those of democracy and human rights, plays a significant role today in the Council of Europe and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in particular.

2. The European Union, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and their member states are also committed to the principles of the “rule of law”, democracy and human rights. Explicit reference to the “rule of law” can be found, inter alia, in European Union/European Community treaties, the case law of the European Court of Justice, as well as in the Copenhagen criteria of 1993 for accession to the European Union.

3. Despite a general commitment to this principle, the variability in terminology and understanding of the term, both within the Council of Europe and in its member states, has elicited confusion. In particular, the French expression Etat de droit (being perhaps the translation of the term Rechtsstaat known in the German legal tradition and in many others) has often been used but does not always reflect the English language notion of “rule of law” as adequately as the expression prééminence du droit, which is reflected in the French version of the Statute of the Council of Europe, in the preamble to the European Convention on Human Rights (ETS No. 5) and in the Strasbourg Court’s case law.

4. The Parliamentary Assembly draws attention to the fact that in some recent democracies in eastern Europe, the main trends in legal thinking foster an understanding of the “rule of law” as “supremacy of statute law”, in Russian verkhovensto zakona. “Rule of law” should, however, be translated into Russian as verkhovensto prava, just as “rule of law” is correctly translated into French as prééminence du droit and not as prééminence de la loi. (Similarly the words Recht and droit in Rechtsstaat/Etat de droit should be translated into Russian as prava.) Translating “rule of law” as verkhovensto zakona gives rise to great concern, since in some of these countries certain traditions of the totalitarian state, contrary to the “rule of law”, are still present both in theory and in practice. Such a formalistic interpretation of the terms “rule of law” and Etat de droit (as well as of Rechtsstaat) runs contrary to the essence of both “rule of law” and prééminence du droit. Certainly in these cases there is an inappropriate lack of consistency and clarity when translating into the legal terms used in member states.

5. The Assembly emphasises the need to ensure the unification that encompasses the principles of legality and of due process, which has the same basic elements, found in particular in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, by whatever name this concept is now used in the Council of Europe.

6. Consequently, the Assembly:

6.1. stresses that the terms “rule of law” and prééminence du droit are substantive legal concepts which are synonymous, and which should be considered as such in all English and French language versions of documents issued by the Assembly as well as in the member states in their official translations;

6.2. believes that the subject merits further reflection with the assistance of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission).

Assignment 2. Answer the questions.

1. How is the notion ‘rule of law’ understood in EU?

2. Is there any difference between the English language notion and the continent language notions?

3. Do you see a difference between rule of law and rule of statute law and supply the Russian equivalents accordingly?

4. How is the principle ‘rule of law’ interpreted in a totalitarian, authoritarian, and democratic societies?

5. How is the notion law understood in English and on the continental languages?

6. What is the Parliamentary Assembly’s concern about the terminological unification?