Summer School: Legal Language Training in Cooperation in Human Rights - SS/2019/03

Start Date: Monday, July 01, 2019
End Date: Friday, July 05, 2019
Category: Linguistics
Venue: EJTN, Brussels, Belgium
Language(s): English, French
Training level: Advanced
Type EJTN-funded activities

APPLICATION PROCEDURES ARE HANDLED BY EJTN'S MEMBER ORGANISATIONS 

TRAINING CONTENT AND TARGET AUDIENCE

 

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Description: 

A five-day, face-to-face course designed for EU trainee judges and prosecutors working within judicial cooperation in human rights.

It aims at developing both legal and linguistics skills of the participants by combining legal information and language exercises in a practical and dynamic way.

Participants are divided in three small groups, two to be developed in English and one to be carried out in French.

Each group is trained for the entire week by a team composed of a linguist expert and a legal expert acting simultaneously.

The course combines theoretical and practical sessions of the four basic language skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening, within legal terminology.

 

Target audience: 

Trainee judges and prosecutors, or judges and prosecutors in a maximum 3rd year of their career from all EU Member States and having either the B1 in English or B2 in English or French language level as per Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Language regime: 

English and French

Level:

  • Intermediate B1
  • Upper Intermediate B2
 

Application procedure: 

All applications must be submitted through the candidates' national EJTN member institution.

Participation:

Upon invitation by EJTN, participants register via EJTN online  platform to which they receive access.
After the event, reimbursement is processed via EJTN online platform.

Useful documents:

Terms and conditions of participation

Frequently Asked Questions

Number of participants: 

36

Deadline for application:

8 April 2019

PROGRAMME AND DOCUMENTATION

 

CONTACT(S)

 

 

 

EJTN Secretariat:

Georgios Klis
georgios.klis@ejtn.eu