- •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
I. Give the English equivalents of the following word combinations
1. Ликвидация колониальных империй. 2. Закрыть глаза на ч-л. 3. Открыто требовать помощи. 4. Выбрать 3-х компонентную стратегию. 5. Быть чутким к нуждам развивающихся стран. 6. Многостороннее сотрудничество, направленное на развитие стран. 7. Последствия. 8. По просьбе. 9. Вдохновленные идеями свободного рынка и конкуренции. 10. Предпочтительное отношение. 11. Подстраивать политический курс к ч-л. 12. Преследовать цель. 13. Способы кредитования. 14. Ссудный процент, взимаемый с. 15. Меры, подрывающие международную торговлю. 16. Экономическое урегулирование/корректировка. 17. В рассрочку. 18. Финансово-бюджетная и денежно-кредитная политика. 19. Зависеть от осуществления конструктивных программ. 20. Соглашение о праве на использование кредита. 21. Временная нехватка/недостаток денежных поступлений. 22. Акционерный капитал. 23. Пропорциональная система голосования. 24. Платежный баланс. 25. Облегчить издержки кризиса. 26. Отсталые страны. 27. Продлить срок займа.
II. Match the words making pairs used in the text
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emergent
a
duties
a three-pronged
b
span
a crucial
c
assistance
economic
d
goals
positive
e
strategy
productive
f
forum
lending
g
institutions
loan
h
States
statutory
i
discrimination
time
j
facilities
emergency
k
terms
customs
l
techniques
III. Complete the sentences with prepositions
1. To appraise the demands ….. developing countries ….. an international economic order more responsive ……their needs, it may prove useful first compendiously to describe the philosophy and motivations …… the establishment of international economic institutions.
2. The US economic expansion …… European territory and in the Far East was salutary, at least ….. the short run, ….. the countries disrupted …… war.
3. The IMF was designed ….. the behest of the USA to ensure international monetary stability.
4. The World Bank draws its lending resources …… money it borrows ….. private sources …… the sale of Bank obligations ….. investors in capital markets, stock transactions, the earning of interest ….. its lending and the commissions and charges arising ….. the granting of loans.
5. With regard ….. the problems of developing countries, as stated above the GATT’s goal of progressively bringing ….. the elimination of trade barriers could prove detrimental ….. their economy.
6. Third World countries therefore needed some protection ….. their economy, in the form of trade barriers ….. their imports and preferential treatment ….. their exports.
7. The need ….. a preferential treatment of developing countries was first acknowledged ….. the revision, brought about ….. the Review Session ….. 1954.
8. The WTO is a single institutional framework encompassing the GATT and other agreements relating ….. trade ….. goods.
9. The GATT was intended to abolish traditional tariff restrictions ….. free trade which greatly hampered free competition ….. the world market.
10. International institutions established ….. the purpose of creating the necessary international mechanisms ….. realizing the philosophy ….. a multilateral stable, and continuing basis were to a large extent imbued ….. a free market and free competition philosophy.
11. States undertook to refrain ….. introducing restrictions ….. payments or transfers ….. current international transactions as defined by the Articles of Agreement instituting the IMF.
12. As a kind of countervailing measure ….. the limitations ….. their sovereignty in monetary matters, member States had a right to draw the currency of another member ….. the Fund whenever they needed it to correct temporary disequilibria ….. their balance of payment.
13. The IMF’s powers are vested ….. the Board of Governers, which can delegate them ….. the Executive Board.
14. The first group of exceptions is aimed ….. general situations. Thus Article XIX provides ….. the use of temporary restraints ….. imports if the latter are causing serious injuries ….. domestic industry.
15. The Global Environment Facility is financed ….. contributions ….. over 60 countries.