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Course Title |
Legal English in a White Collar Crime Context |
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Course Overview |
This course will make the students read "The Art of the Steal" in order to familiarize students with legal English terminology. |
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履修条件 |
Confidence to read and discuss legal issues in English. |
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授業の目的 |
This class will introduce students to reading, understanding, summarizing and presenting texts in English. To achieve this goal, we will use the book “The Art of the Steal”. This book is a popular account of a cartel concluded between two auction houses: Sotheby’s and Christie’s. The fact that it is a popular account means that students are not confronted with a “dry” legal text, but with a vivid description of the background behind a serious economic crime: cartel formation.
Since this is a class for students of a law faculty, a secondary aim of the class is to identify and understand legal terminology. |
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授業の概要・計画 |
The book “The Art of the Steal” consists of 30 chapters. Each week two chapters will be discussed.
Chapter 1: The life of Mr. Taubman
Chapter 2: Mr. Taubman and Sotheby’s
Chapter 3: The life of Dede Brooks
Chapter 4: Turning Sotheby’s Profitable
Chapter 5: Mr. Taubman’s ambassadorial role for Sotheby’s
Chapter 6: The life of Mr. Davidge
Chapter 7: Christie’s and Sotheby’s early antitrust experience
Chapter 8: Mrs. Brooks’ rise at Sotheby’s
Chapter 9: Mr. Tennant as Chairman of Christie’s
Chapter 10: The meetings between Mr. Tennant and Mr. Taubman
Chapter 11: Mr. Tennant’s push for conspiracy, Mr. Davidge seeking to protect himself
Chapter 12: The content of the price-fixing scheme & Mr. Tennant’s failure as chairman
Chapter 13: Christie’s is realizing the first part of the price-fixing scheme
Chapter 14: Sotheby’s agrees to follow Christie’s price setting
Chapter 15: Deal making continues, but competition is sometimes fierce
Chapter 16: Antitrust Issues Surface
Chapter 17: Informal Antitrust Investigation
Chapter 18: Christie’s Under Investigation
Chapter 19: Brooks, Davidge and Rumors about the Price Fixing Scheme
Chapter 20: Davidge’s Struggle within Christie’s & The Price Fixing Scheme Revealed
Chapter 21: Christies & Davidge Determine their Legal Strategies
Chapter 22: The Investigation Expands to Sotheby’s
Chapter 23: Taubman and Brooks Determine their Strategy
Chapter 24: Private Enforcement
Chapter 25: The Main Characters: An Intermezzo
Chapter 26: US vs. Taubman: The Criminal Case
Chapter 27: Taubman: Guilty
Chapter 28: Criminal Sentence for Taubman and Brooks
Chapter 29: Brooks House Arrest and Taubman’s Reflections on
Chapter 30: Taubman in Prison
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授業の進め方 |
Each week, (two) different students are expected to present two chapters out of the book “The Art of the Steal”. Each chapter is about 4 to 7 pages. During the class we will discuss the content of each chapter and pick up on vocabulary important in legal discourse. |
| 教科書・参考書等 |
Christopher Mason, The Art of the Steal (Berkley Books, 2004) |
| 成績評価の方法・基準 |
The evaluation will be based upon 1) a presentation; 2) class participation and 3) a short book review. |
| その他（質問・相談方法等） |
授業について聞きたいことがありましたら、メールでも受け付けています。（メールアドレス：uytsel【アットマーク】law.kyushu-u.ac.jp） |
| 事前／事後学修 |
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