- Docente: Gianrico Carofiglio
- Credits: 3
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 9233)
Course contents
The laboratory will be divided into three segments.
In the first segment, a general reflection on the language of jurists will be developed with the identification of the communicative defects of writing (and speaking) of legal professionals.
In the second segment, texts taken from judicial practice, jurisprudence and doctrine will be examined, identifying logical weaknesses, expository errors, useless obscurities.
In the third segment the fundamental rules of good legal writing will be set out.
Readings/Bibliography
Con parole precise. Breviario di scrittura civile
Gianrico Carofiglio
Laterza
The bibliography of the textbook contains all the indications for any further information.
Assessment methods
A text will be submitted containing the writing defects indicated and examined in the first two segments of the course. Students will have to identify such defects, write them down and rewrite the passages in question according to the rules of good legal writing set out in the third segment.
During the verification it will be allowed to consult the textbook, any notes, the dictionary.
Office hours
See the website of Gianrico Carofiglio