Teaching of Civil Law Reasoning to Common Law Students

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Teaching of Civil Law Reasoning to Common Law
Students
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Objectives

• Audience
• Mindset
• Terminology
• Codes
• Doctrine
• Judicial Branch
• Judicial Procedure
• Personal Experience

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Audience

• Service
• Identifying their needs
• Background
• The Course is so Extensive
• Students approach/think
• Diversity the Best!

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Mindset

• Reminder new Legal System
• Tendency to think the same way
• History How and Why

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Terminology

• Regardless of the language
• Different references
• Civil Law/Civil Procedure
• Discovery
• Amparo

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Codes

• Source of Law
• Body of Law
• Codes/Codes v. Cases/Cases
• Vast, extensive and detailed
• Abstract/Concepts/Categories
• General down to specific
• Slow pace of changing

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Doctrine

• Source of Law
• Legal Scholars Opinion
• Deference
• Writing/Researching/Citing

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Judicial Branch

• Role
• Stare Decisis Doctrine
• Dynamism
• Flexible
• Jurisprudence

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Judicial Procedure

• Civil and Criminal
• Subject Matter
• Civil main process in US
• Discovery

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Personal Experience

• Cultural shock
• Non US Students/Lawyers tend to know a little bit
  more of the US Legal System than the US to Civil
  Law System
• Common Law knowledge helps
• Adjust/Adapt the teaching process