- •International Law.
- •Unit 1. The main legal features of the international community
- •Introduction
- •The nature of international legal subjects
- •Traditional and new subjects
- •Vocabulary work
- •I. Find English equivalents to these word combinations
- •Complete these sentences with prepositions.
- •Match the words making pairs used in the text and use them in sentences of your own.
- •Grammar revision
- •IV. Translate these sentences into Russian. Pay attention to the underlined words.
- •Speaking
- •V. Answer the questions, using the information from the text
- •Insurgents
- •National liberation movements
- •VI. Find answers to the questions.
- •VIII. Render the text “Что понимается под субъектом международного права”into English.
- •IX. Using the diagram speak on the International Legal Subjects
- •International Law - Antonio Cassese
- •First edition 2001 - p.3-11, 46-55, 66-77
- •Unit 2. The fundamental principles governing international relations
- •Introduction
- •Immunities and other limitations on sovereignty
- •Rights and immunities of foreign states
- •General
- •New forms of intervention
- •Prohibition of the threat or use of force
- •Peaceful settlement of disputes
- •Sovereignty
- •Legal equality
- •Self-determination of peoples
- •Vocabulary work
- •Find English equivalents to these word combinations
- •Find words and expressions similar in their meaning to the following ones
- •Complete the sentences below with the words and phrases you have found in task II.
- •Complete these sentences with prepositions.
- •Use these nouns and verbs in sentences of your own, mind the stress.
- •Translate the sentences paying attention to the meaning of ‘subject’
- •Grammar revision
- •Translate these sentences into Russian. Pay attention to the underlined words.
- •Speaking.
- •Make up the plan of the text in the form of statements and develop it into a summary.
- •Read the text “Immunities of diplomatic agents” and answer the questions.
- •Immunities of diplomatic agents
- •What are the two classes of privileges and immunities which diplomatic agents enjoy?
- •Read the text “Immunities of consular agents” and say what activities consular agents perform and what immunities consular agents enjoy.
- •Immunities of consular agents
- •Render the text into English.
- •International Law - Antonio Cassese
- •First edition 2001 - p.86-113
- •Unit 3.
- •International lawmaking: custom and treaties traditional law
- •New trends
- •The role of usus and opinio in international humanitarian law
- •Do customary rules need, at their birth, the support of all states?
- •Treaties
- •Interpretation
- •Codification
- •The introduction of jus cogens in the 1960s the emergence of jus cogens.
- •The effects of jus cogens
- •Vocabulary work.
- •II. Match the words making pairs used in the text, and use them in sentences of your own.
- •III. Match these Latin words with their definitions.
- •IV. Match the synonyms and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •Grammar revision.
- •V. Translate the sentences into Russian. Pay attention to the underlined words.
- •Speaking
- •VI. Continue the sentences, using the phrases, given below.
- •VII. Answer the questions using the information from the text.
- •VIII. Complete diagrams a and b with the words and phrases given below. Then using these diagrams retell this part of the text “International Lawmaking.”(Custom and Treaties).
- •IX. Working in pairs make up one more diagram covering such parts of the text as “Codification” or “Jus Cogens. Other Law-Creating processes.”
- •X. Read the text and answer the questions.
- •International lawmaking: other law-creating processes (part I)
- •XI. Read the text and decide whether the statements are true or false.
- •International lawmaking: other law-creating processes (part II)
- •XII. Render the text into English.
- •International Law, Antonio Cassese
- •Unit 4. State responsibility
- •1 The current regulation of state responsibility: an overview
- •2 'Ordinary' state responsibility
- •3 'Aggravated' state responsibility
- •Vocabulary work
- •I. Give the English equivalents of the following word combinations
- •II. Match these words making pairs used in the text
- •III. Complete the sentences with prepositions
- •IV. Choose the right word
- •I. Translate into Russian the sentences
- •Decide whether the statements are true or false. Discuss the answers in groups.
- •II. Give extensive answers to the questions making use of the following expressions
- •III. Summarizing
- •IV. Render the text into English ответственность в международном праве Что понимается под международно-правовой ответственностью и когда она наступает?
- •Несут ли субъекты международного права международно-правовую ответственность за деяния своих органов и должностных лиц?
- •Unit 5. Legal attemps at narrowing the north-south gap
- •1 The action of the world community: general
- •2 The role of international economic institutions
- •Vocabulary work
- •I. Give the English equivalents of the following word combinations
- •II. Match the words making pairs used in the text
- •III. Complete the sentences with prepositions
- •IV. Choose the right word
- •I. Translate from English into Russian
- •I. Match the parts of the sentences
- •II. Give extensive answers to the questions making use of the following expressions
- •1 Multilateral co-operation for development
- •Unit 6. The implementation of international rules within national systems relationship between international and national law
- •Modalities of implementation
- •Vocabulary work
- •I. Give the English equivalents to the following word combinations
- •Match these words making pairs used in the text, use them in the sentences of your own
- •Complete the sentences with prepositions.
- •IV. Analyse the meanings of the words. Complete the sentences by choosing the correct word in each case.
- •I. The formal subject expressed by ‘it’. Translate into Russian the sentences with impersonal ‘it’.
- •II. Translate into Russian. Pay attention to the underlined word combinations.
- •I. Decide whether these statements are true or false. Discuss the answers in groups.
- •Give extensive answers to the questions making use of the following expressions.
- •III. Summarizing. Write the plan of the text in the form of statements. Develop your plan into a summary.
- •IV. Render the text into English using the active vocabulary
- •Supplementary reading the rank of international rules within domestic legal orders
- •I. Comment on the diagram. Make use of the helpful phrases.
- •Trends emerging among the legal systems of states
- •1 . Modalities of implementation
- •2 . The rank of international rules, within domestic legal orders
- •Exigencies motivating states in their choice of the
- •Incorporation system
- •Techniques of implementation
- •Treaty law
- •I. Analyse the ways of implementing rules within the frame of international public law using the given phrases. Complete the missing information on the mind map.
- •Techniques of implimentation
- •Information for reports, presentations, discussions:
Vocabulary work
Find English equivalents to these word combinations
p.1-3
общественные связи, отношения;
основные директивы, руководящие указания;
накладывать обязательства;
излагать , объяснять направление политики;
увеличение, прирастание новых норм;
острая необходимость;
твердо придерживаться определенных правил игры;
кроме того, к тому же;
тщательное исследование юридических стандартов;
подход невмешательства;
согласно этому подходу;
неограниченная свобода;
удовлетворять требования;
безоговорочное согласие;
широкие полномочия;
исполнение публичных функций;
выполнять принудительные действия;
принимать предупредительные меры;
принимать меры принуждения;
проведение внешней политики;
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принцип невмешательства
исполнять некоторые виды деятельности;
запрещать вторгаться;
посягать на внутренние дела;
воздержаться от подстрекательства;
действия, наносящие вред зарубежным странам;
экономическое принуждение, насилие;
насильственный;
урегулировать международные споры мирным путем;
прибегать к переговорам;
спорящие стороны;
принудить противоположную сторону достичь мирного урегулирования спора;
самоопределение народов;
быть закрепленным;
проливать свет на;
подчиняться;
объявить вне закона экономическое насилие;
Find words and expressions similar in their meaning to the following ones
p.1-3
social relations, links;
to come into being, to appear, to emerge;
increase, expansion;
research, investigation;
in brief;
to result in, to cause;
to announce;
political point of view;
to break down;
to encompass;
to result from;
behaviour;
to perform public actions;
to be based on;
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to imperil;
to intrude;
to force;
to turn to;
to ban;
to obey;
harmful;
to state as a necessary condition;
logical outcome, consequence;
to choose
prescribe.
Complete the sentences below with the words and phrases you have found in task II.
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Moreover, if states __________ new situations by force, the law gives its blessing to these situations.
Numerous new members joined the world community whose ___________ _______ differed from that of older states.
The fundamental principles regulating ________________ are laid down in written constitutions of most states.
When this community ________________, no member state had enough power to impose standards of behavior on all other members.
After ______________ of the Soviet Union and most other socialist countries, states are divided economically and politically.
Close _________ of the legal standards shows that states substantially acted upon at least three postulates: freedom, equality and effectiveness.
As the principle ___________ two logically distinct notions, it makes sense to consider them separately.
The judiciary should not interfere with the ________ foreign
policy.
The three postulates are clearly the synthesis of what could be ________ defined as the “laissez – faire” approach of classical international law.
The adoption of the UN charter in 1945 __________ a very significant change.
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Another rule _________ states from ____________ the international affairs of other states.
One of the purposes of peaceful counter-measures may be ________ the counter party to reach an amicable settlement of the dispute.
In the UN “collective” sanctions may be ___________ which tend to be more effective than individual (peaceful) counter measures.
Peoples under colonial domination have the right to external self-determination, that is to ________ for the establishment of a sovereign state…
International subjects must ______________ the principles of International Law.
One state may not _________ a foreign State agent to discharge certain activities or accomplish a certain act.