本教程旨在让读者认识“真正的”为“法律人”（Lawyer）所运用的法律语言，帮助读者提高法律英语水平，让他们*终能掌握和比较熟练地运用法律英语，开展相关工作和进行研究。书中所收材料的文体包括正式的法律条文、案例、合同、判决、书评、论文等各个方面，内容涉及法律语言学以及许多法律部门，多属于*新的知识领域范畴。 临于课文的语篇、语义及语用结构等均属中等以上难度，故编者对不少课文都作有比较详尽的注释。此外，每课课文之后还附有大理的涉及法律英语的词汇、语法、阅读理解等练习。更具特色的是每课练习均设有一定的法律英语翻译知识及技巧简介，并配有相关的翻译练习，以期帮助读者提高法律英语的翻译能力。

LESSON ONE Test Law, Language, and Thinking like a Lawyer SCOPE AND PURPOSE “We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true”, said Holmes. Holmes left in at that, an isolated ornament dropped to float in no readily discernible context of an address at a bar association meeting. In this less frequently quoted of his legacy of magisterial pronouncements, he touched upon a broad range of age-old conundrums of philosophy, psychology, and education: the“reality”consisting of what he called facts and things, and the relationship between this reality and the process of “thinking”. Even more intriguing is the relationship of language to both facts and thinking. As usual, Holmes did not stop for side trips of interminable definition of philosophical subtleties, including such questions as the extent to which one can think at all except in language.

Lesson One Law, Language, and Thinking Like a Lawyer
Lesson Two Law, Democracy, and Moral Disagreement
Lesson Three Something About Securities Exchange
Lesson Four Sales Agency Agreement with Dealer
Lesson Five Terms and Conditions of Commercial Letter of Credit and Security Agreement
Lesson Six Partnership Ordinance
Lesson Seven Import and Export Ordinance
Lesson Eight California Rules of Professional Conduct
Lesson Nine Introduction to International Law
Lesson Ten Rules of Interpretation