HANOI LAW UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

APPROVAL OF PRINCIPAL

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HÀ NỘI - 2025
 HANOI LAW UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

Program: Bachelor of High quality Laws (fulltime)

Course title: Presentation skills in adversarial context
Credit points: 02
Type of the course: Optional
1. INFORMATION OF LECTURERS
1.1 Tô Văn Hoà (Assoc. Prof., PhD.) - Lecturer
Email: [email protected]
1.2 Hoàng Xuân Châu (PhD.) - Lecturer
Email:
1.3 Trần Thị Quang Hồng (PhD.) – Lecturer
Email:
1.4 Lê Nguyễn Duy Hậu (PhD.) – Lecturer
Email:
1.5 Mai Thị Mai (PhD.) – Lecturer
Email: [email protected]
1.6 Đậu Công Hiệp (LLM) – Lecturer
Email: [email protected]
1.7 Nguyễn Thu Trang (LLM) – Lecturer
Email: [email protected]
1.8 Phạm Minh Trang (LLM) – Lecturer
Email:
Office: Room 502, Building A, Hanoi Law University
No. 87, Nguyễn Chí Thanh Str., Hanoi.
Telephone: 04 38352357
Open hours: 8h00 - 16h00 week-days.
2. PREREQUISITE COURSES
- Constitutional law (Vietnamese)
- Advanced legal English.
- Legal reasoning and legal writing for law professionals
3. SUMMARY OF THE COURSE
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“Presentation skills in adversarial context” is a legal methodological
training course rather than a substantive law course. The course provides
the students with the ablity to present legal reasoning in adversarial
context, including writing legal memos and presenting oral arguments in
trial context. The students will get to work with real cases and in the
context which is intimate to lawyers.
The course is composed of five issues, which focus on two main topics:
- Writing legal memos to argue on a case.
- Presenting oral arguments to the benefit of a client in a contested case.
4. CONTENT OF THE COURSE
Issue 1. Introduction to legal presentation in adversarial context
Issue 2. Writing legal memos
Issue 3. Writing legal advice letter
Issue 4. Oral argument in a court room
5. OUTPUT STANDARDS OF THE COURSE AND MEET THE
OUTPUT STANDARDS OF THE TRAINING PROGRAM
5.1 The Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)
* Knowledges:
K1: Eventhough it is not its prime purpose, after this course, the students
will be able to gain in depth knowledge on a certain issues of substantive
law, which are touch upon by the cases used during the course.
* Skills:
After this course, the student is expected to:
S2: Be able to write legal memos and advice letter on a case.
S3: Be able to present effective oral argument in court room context.
* Self-control ability and self-responsibility:
T4: After this course, the student will be more aware of some ethical rules
of the legal professions, particularly the rule of loyalty to the client, critical
thinking etc.
5.2. The matrix demonstrating the compatibility of the CLOs with the
TPLOs

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 The ability LOs of
The Knowledge LOs of the The Skill LOs of
Learning the training
training program the training program
outcomes program
K4 K5 K6 K10 K11 K12 K13 S17 S18 S19 S20 S25 S26 S27 S28 T33 T34 T35 T36

K1 X X X X X X X X X X
S2 X X X X X X X X X
S3 X X X X X X X X X
T4 X X X X

6. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
6.1. Detailed learning objectives
Obj.
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Iss.
Issue 1. 1A1. Understand the 1B1. Recognize the
Introdu- differences between the different
ction to styles of legal writing. components of a
legal 1A2. Understand the writing process.
presentati connection between legal
on in writings and oral
adversa- presentation.
rial 1A3. Understand the
context differences between the
types of legal argument in
resolving questions of law.
Issue 2. 2A1. Understand the 2B1. Be able to 2C1. Be
Writing definition of legal memos recognize the able to
office (office memos). differences write a
memos 2A2. Understand the role of between the proper
office memos in legal different types of office
correspondence. office memos. memo on
2A3. Understand the role of an actual
office memos in the daily case.
business of a legal office.
Issue 3. 3A1. Understand the 3B1. Be able to 3C1. Be
Writing definition of legal advice recognize the able to

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 legal letter. components of a write a
advice 3A2. Understand the role of legal advice letter. proper
letter legal advice letter in legal legal
correspondence. advice
3A3. Understand the role of letter on
legal advice letter in the an actual
daily business of a legal case.
office.
Issue 4. 4A1. Understand the 4C1. Be
Oral context of a court-room able to
argument trial. present
in a court 4A2. Understand the role of oral
room orgal argument in a court- argument
room context. on an
4A3. Understand the role of actual case
oral argument vis-à-vis effectively
legal profession.
6.2. Total learning objectives
Obj.
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
Iss.
Issue No. 1 3 1 0 4
Issue No. 2 3 1 1 5
Issue No. 3 3 1 1 5
Issue No. 4 3 0 1 4
Tổng 12 3 3 18
7. THE MATRIX DEMONSTRATING THE COMPATIBILITY OF
THE DETAILED LEARNING OBJECTIVES WITH CLOs
Knowledges Skills Abilities
Objective
K1 S2 S3 T4
1A1. X X X X
1A2. X X X
1A3 X X X

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 1B1 X X
2A1 X X
2A2 X X
2A3 X X
2B1 X X X
2C1 X X X
3A1 X X X
3A2 X X X
3A3 X X
3B1 X X X
3C1 X X
4A1 X X
4A2 X X X
4A3 X X X
4C1 X X X
8. MATERIALS
1. Helene Sapo, Marilyn Walter, Elizabeth Fajans, Writing and analysis in
the law, 6th edition, Foundation press, 2013.
2. Cathy Glaser, Jethro Lieberman et al., The lawyer’s craft – An
introduction of legal analysis, writing, research, and advocacy, LexisNexis,
2002.
3. Robin Slocum, Legal resoning, writing, and other lawyering skills, 3rd
edition, LexisNexis, 2011.
4. Linda Edwards, Legal writing and analysis, 3rd edition, Aspen
Coursebook Series, Wolters Kluwer, 2011.
9. TEACHING – LEARNING FORMS
9.1. General schedule
Forms of teaching and learning
Week Issue Team Self Total
Lecture Seminar Assessment
work study
1 1 4 0 8 8 Participation in seminar
2 2 2 4 8 8 Participation in seminar

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 Course paper
3 3 2 4 8 8
Partificpation in seminar
4 4 2 4 8 8 Participation in seminar
Team assignment
5 5 2 4 8 8
Participation in seminar
Total of
12 16 40 40 108
sessions
Notes: - Mid-term exam will be taken during a seminar class.
- Team assignment will be presented in a seminar class.
9.2. Detailed schedule
Week 1: Issue 1
Numb
Teaching – er Requirements for
Learning of Main contents students’
form sessin preparation
ons
Lecture 4 - Introduction to legal presentation - Selected pages
- Introduction to advesarial context. from Sapo (2013),
The process of legal writing. Glaser (2002).
Persuassive and predictive writing in
different context of legal profession.
Team 8
work
Self study 8 - Reading assigned materials.
Tutoring - Content: Answering student’s questions off the class,
introducing new reference materials etc
- Time: 8.30 to 11.00 every Tuesday
- Venue: Room 502, A Building or via email.
Week 2: Issue 2
Numb
Teaching – er
Requirements for students’
Learning of Main contents
preparation
form sessin
ons
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 Lecture 2 Office memos. - Selected pages from Sapo
Types of office memos (2013), Slocum (2011).
and roles.
Seminar 4 - Practicing writing - Assigned cases, excercise.
office memos.
Team 8 - Reading assigned materials.
work
Self study 8 - Practicing writing - Doing excercise.
office memos.
Tutoring - Content: Answering student’s questions off the class,
introducing new reference materials etc
- Time: 8.30 to 11.00 every Tuesday
- Venue: Room 502, A Building or via email.
Week 3: Issue 3
Numb
Teaching – er
Requirements for
Learning of Main contents
students’ preparation
form sessin
ons
Lecture 2 - Writing legal advice letter. - Selected pages from
- Components of a legal advice Claser (2002), Slocum
letter (2011).
Seminar 2 - Practicing writing legal - Assigned cases.
advice on an actual case.
Team 8 - Practicing writing legal - Assigned cases.
work advice on an actual case.
Self study 8 - Practicing writing legal - Assigned cases.
advice on an actual case.
Tutoring - Content: Answering student’s questions off the class,
introducing new reference materials etc
- Time: 8.30 to 11.00 every Tuesday
- Venue: Room 502, A Building or via email.
Week 4+5: Issue 4

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 Numb
Teaching – er
Requirements for students’
Learning of Main contents
preparation
form sessin
ons
Lecture 4 - Oral argument in a - Selected pages from Claser
court room (2002)
- Rules on effective
orgal argument.
Seminar 8 - Preparing and Actual cases asigned in the
presenting oral argument class.
on an actual case.
Team 16 - Preparing and Actual cases asigned in the
work presenting oral argument class.
on an actual case.
Self study 16 - Preparing and Actual cases asigned in the
presenting oral argument class.
on an actual case.
Tutoring - Content: Answering student’s questions off the class,
introducing new reference materials etc
- Time: 8.30 to 11.00 every Tuesday
- Venue: Room 502, A Building or via email.
10. COURSE POLICY
- In accordance with the applicable regulations of the Hanoi Law
University.
11. LEARNING ASSESSMENT
11.1. Frequent assessment
- Inspections: Students participate in 75% or more of the prescribed hours
for each theory or seminar part.
- Participation in seminars and team assignment.
11.2. Periodical assessment

Type of assignment Ratio

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 Assessing knowledge and attitudes to participate in seminar 10%
Group project 30%
Final exam 60%

11.3. Criteria for assessment

 Assessing knowledge and attitudes to participate in seminar
- Assessing knowledge: Self-study and understand the lesson (1-7 mark)
- Attitudes to participate in seminar: negative/ positive (1-3 mark)
- Total: 10 mark
 Team assignment:
- Each team will be assigned a case to practice oral argument.
 Individual exam/paper:
- The student will be a topic or questions to do at home in form of a paper.
It could be to write a simple legal advice letter or to spot flaws in a
given legal advice letter
 - Alternatively, the student may be asked to conduct a 1-hour written
exam in the class. For this alternative, the student will be given a simple
case and asked to
 Final exam
- Condition to participate in the final exam:
+ Students participate in 75% or more of the prescribed hours for
each theory or seminar part.
+ Team assignment or individual exam must be greater than 0
- The final exam is also taken in the from of a writen exam, which the
student have to complete in 2 hours. The student will be assigned a case to
write office memos on.
- Criteria to assess the final exam:
+ Showing good understanding of the knowlege learned during the
course;
+ Understandable argumentation;
+ Clearness in the language used.
LEADER OF SUBJECT

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

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1. Information of lecturers 2
2. Prerequisite courses 2
3. Summary of the course 3
4. Content of the course 3
5. Output standards of the course 3
6. Learning objectives 4
7. The matrix learning objectives with CLOs 6
8. Materials 7
9. Teaching – learning forms 7
10. Policies of the course 9
11. Assessment methods 9

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