- •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
- •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
- •Immunities and other limitations on sovereignty
- •Rights and immunities of foreign states
- •Non-intervention in the internal or external affairs of other 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
- •Grammar revision
- •Speaking.
- •Immunities of diplomatic agents
- •What are the two classes of privileges and immunities which diplomatic agents enjoy?
- •Immunities of consular agents
- •International Law - Antonio Cassese
- •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
- •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
- •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.
- •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:
Grammar revision
Translate these sentences into Russian. Pay attention to the underlined words.
All States are equally free to do what they like provided they abide by certain rules of the game.
It should not be thought that the mere fact of being included in the list proclaimed in the Declaration upgrades a standard of behavior to the rank and status of a universal and fundamental principle.
It also is necessary for the standard to be laid down in a set of norms of general import.
Of the various fundamental principles regulating international relations, this is unquestionably the only one on which there is unqualified agreement.
This being so, what is its present purport?
Consequently individuals cannot be brought to trial and punished by foreign states for any official act, if such happens to be contrary to international law.
It follows that it is not for courts, but for the organs responsible for foreign affairs, to take matters relating to foreign acts into their hands and use diplomatic channels to discuss, or argue over, them with the foreign state concerned.
Yet another rule enjoins states to refrain from instigating, organizing, or officially supporting the organization on their territory of activities prejudicial to foreign countries.
Another customary rule stipulates that whenever a civil war breaks out in a foreign country, states are duty-bound to refrain from assisting insurgents, unless they qualify for the status of national liberation movements.
Arguably, economic force is proscribed when used as a means of compelling a state to adopt a course of action contrary to its will and advantageous to the coercive state.
That this principle was proclaimed and strongly emphasized in 1945 is hardly surprising.
The UN Charter obliges member states to settle their international disputes peacefully so as generally to prevent peace and security, as well as justice, being imperiled.
Consequently, the principle is breached whenever a state willfully and mali fide refuses to resort to negotiations or other peaceful means or procedures proposed by the counter-party, or after the failure of a particular means or procedure, agreed upon by the contending parties refuses to continue to seek a settlement, or takes action that is likely to aggravate the dispute or jeopardize peace.
Speaking.
Answer the questions.
p. 1-3
What serves as basic guidelines for the life of the whole community?
How did a body of law evolve?
What three postulates did states act upon?
What does the “laissez-faire approach” imply?
What were the principles by which all the members were to abide in 1945?
How did the situation change in the 1960s?
Are international relations smooth in the present world community?
Which fundamental principle is unquestionably the only one on which there is unqualified agreement?
What sweeping powers and rights does sovereignty include?
What does legal equality imply?
May a state exercise its sovereign power over actions legally performed by foreign states on its territory?
Which acts may a state not carry out?
p. 3-5
In which customary rules has the principle of non-intervention in the internal or external affair of other states been concretely enshrined? Are these rules still in force?
What questions arise concerning new forms of intervention?
Under what circumstances is the principle of peaceful settlement of disputes breached?
Why do States prefer to bring the issue of gross disregard for human nights before international organizations?
In what areas does self-determination appear firmly entrenched in the corpus of international law?
What does the right to external self- determination mean?
What is the difference between external and internal self- determination?
Are the principles of international law independent from each other? Why?
Make up the plan of the text in the form of statements and develop it into a summary.
Phrases which might be used in presenting the summary: to start with, one should bear in mind; I’d like to draw your attention to; it’s worth mentioning; it’s suffice to stress; in addition; as I pointed out; in conclusion.
Read the text “Immunities of diplomatic agents” and answer the questions.