USLawEssentials Law & Language

In this special episode of the USLawEssentials Law & Language Podcast, we speak with two experts who share insights into whether an LL.M. Program is right for you. Our guests today are Professor Brian Sites and Vasudha Krishnamurthy . Professor Brian, among other things, is a nationally recognized expert on the bar examination and directs the LL.M. Program at Georgia State College of Law. Vasu...

The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its series of interviews with multilingual lawyers as Stephen Horowitz interviews Seongryeol ‘Ryan’ Park . This interview was recorded much earlier in 2023 and Ryan, who already has a fascinating story, just embarked on a new career as South Korea’s Assistant Secretary to the President for International Public Relations. At the time of this...

Episode 59 The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its series of interviews with multilingual lawyers as Stephen Horowitz interviews Tanya Primiani . Tanya is Co-Director for the WJP Rule of Law Index at the World Justice Project and manages planning and implementation of the Index team’s global, thematic, and country-specific research projects. She is fluent in Spanish, French, a...

The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its series of interviews with multilingual lawyers as Stephen Horowitz interviews Iaroslav Gregirchak . Mr. Gregirchak serves as the Deputy Business Ombudsman on the Business Ombudsmen Council. The Council is a specialized alternative dispute resolution (ADR) platform enabling businesses to challenge various instances of business malpractice...

The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its series of interviews with multilingual lawyers as Stephen Horowitz interviews Professors Jonah Perlin and Eun Hee Han . This is a fascinating discussion among three professors at Georgetown University Law Centre. Jonah and Eun Hee are Legal Practice professors, meaning they teach legal writing, but they also both have significant experie...

Episode 56 The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its Legal English vocabulary series as Stephen Horowitz and Daniel Edelson discuss the legal and non-legal meanings of the word produce. Fun fact: produce is a heteronym! Change its pronunciation and the meaning changes.

 Episode 55 The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast welcomes you to 2023 with a very special interview with multilingual lawyer Vitaliia Yurchak . Vitaliia is earned her first law degree in her home country of Ukraine. In addition, Vitaliia holds a Ph. D. Political Science and published 15 articles addressing political problems of international systems and global development. After coming t...

Episode 54 The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast presents the latest episode in the What’s New in the Legal News series. In today’s episode, Stephen Horowitz discusses with Daniel Edelson a recent article detailing a proposed class action lawsuit by a woman who claims she was deceived by the packaging for a Macaroni and Cheese microwavable meal. When you’re hungry and have a keen sense of...

The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its series of interviews with multilingual legal professionals as Daniel Edelson interviews translator Stephen Rifkind . Stephen is originally from the United States and lives in Israel. In addition to translating a wide range of legal documents, he teaches English at Ort Braude College of Engineering.   Fluent in English, Hebrew, French, an...

The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its series of interviews with multilingual lawyers as Stephen Horowitz interviews Nory Dianne Miano . Dianne is a lawyer originally from the Philippines and graduated from Georgetown Law with a Masters of Laws in Taxation and a Certificate in International Taxation as well as a Certificate in Legal English. She also graduated from Georgetown...

Episode 51  The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its What’s New in the Legal News Series as Stephen Horowitz and Daniel Edelson discuss a recent decision by a federal court to dismiss the lawsuit of a former Yale University professor who sued the University after she lost her faculty position.  Among other things, she alleged that her contract with the University prohibited her...

Episode 50 The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its Legal English vocabulary series in which our hosts discuss a word that has both a regular meaning and a legal English meaning. Today, Stephen Horowitz and Daniel Edelson discuss the word Action . What kind of action did you undertake today to improve your legal English? Start with this episode!

Episode 49 The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its series of interviews with multilingual lawyers as Stephen Horowitz interviews Professor    Paula Arturo-Klammer .  Paula is a legal English Lecturer & Research Fellow at the Georgetown Center for Legal English. Currently earning her Ph. D. in Law from Universidad de Palermo in Argentina, Paula is an experienced lawyer and...

  Episode 48 The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its new series on analogies. In this series, your hosts, Stephen Horowitz and Daniel Edelson, don’t actually talk about law and legal English vocabulary. Instead, they discuss how international students & attorneys can improve their legal English vocabulary and analytical skills by practicing and explaining analogies.   Toda...

Episode 47 The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its Legal English Vocabulary series as your hosts, Stephen Horowitz and Daniel Edelson, discuss the word “consortium”. As with other words in the Legal English Vocabulary series, consortium has both a legal English meaning and a more general meaning. Please connect with USLawEssentials on   LinkedIn   and   Facebook .  

Episode 46 The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast presents its 46th episode with a brand new series on analogies. This episode is a bit different from other episodes because your hosts, Stephen Horowitz and Daniel Edelson, don’t actually talk about law and legal English vocabulary. Instead, they discuss how international students & attorneys can improve their legal English vocabulary a...

Episode 45 The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its series of interviews with multilingual lawyers as Stephen Horowitz interviews immigration attorney Nick Harling . Nick speaks Japanese and lived for several years in Japan teaching English with the JET Program. In Japan, Nick gained first-hand experience of what it is like to work overseas and to experience the pressures of na...

Episode 44 The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues with a brand new series on legal English vocabulary. In this series your hosts Stephen Horowitz and Daniel Edelson discuss vocabulary words that have both a legal English definition and meanings not associated with legal English. Today’s vocabulary word is: Impeach Please connect with USLawEssentials on LinkedIn and Facebook .

Episode 43 The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its series of interviews with multilingual lawyers as Stephen Horowitz interviews Ellis Duncan , Director of the Graduate Tax Program at the Georgetown University Law Center. Eliis is modest about his multilingual abilities but he can also speak tax – – which everyone knows is a language all its own.  This is an enormously informa...

Episode 42 Intrigue! Betrayal! A friendship on the line! The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its Law Exam Essentials series as Stephen Horowitz & Daniel A. Edelson discuss promissory estoppel. The doctrine of promissory estoppel provides that a promise, unsupported by consideration, may still be enforceable where a party reasonably relies on the promise to its detriment. ...

Episode 41 The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast continues its series of interviews with multilingual lawyers as Stephen Horowitz interviews Professor Karen Lundquist.  Karen Lundquist is an assistant professor of ESL and English skills at the University of Minnesota Law School, where, among other things she teaches legal writing, lawyering skills, and US law for LL.M. students.  She spea...

Episode 40 The USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast presents the next episode in our Law Exam Essentials series. In today’s episode, Stephen Horowitz & Daniel Edelson focus particularly on the element of consideration and have some fun with different meanings of the word. You can watch a USLawEssentials video on consideration here : https://youtu.be/PLStHYD1eCk and a video on “past consi...