
- •International law
- •Contents
- •Передмова
- •International Law
- •1. Read the following proverbs. Each of them contains deep sense. Comment on them and try to give their Ukrainian equivalents.
- •Section b Reading and speaking
- •2. What do you suppose the international law is about?
- •3. Read through the text and find answers to the questions that follow it.
- •International Legal System
- •4. Word study: Key Terms
- •5. Answer the following questions to the text. Do it in pairs.
- •6. Use the information in the excerpt that follows to describe where and when contemporary International law has its origin and when an embryonic sovereign state system was established in Europe.
- •7. In groups of 3 or 4 consider the following situations, try to refer each of them to a definite legal system.
- •Section c Language study
- •Vocabulary
- •8. Match each term on the left with explanation on the right.
- •9. Make up as many word-groups as you can think of using words from lines a and b in the sentences of your own.
- •10. Match key terms in line a with their English equivalents in line b.
- •11. Translate the sentences into English using the key terms.
- •12. Fill in the missing prepositions:
- •13. Complete the following table and translate the words into Ukrainian. The first one is given like a model to you.
- •14. Choose the correct form of the word in brackets to complete the following sentences. Make a point of using the Passives. The Acceptance of Community Law
- •15. Fill in the missing prepositions from the list:
- •16. Translate the sentences into English using the key terms given in the unit.
- •Section d Listening
- •16. You are going to hear the text about Roman Law, which is the foundation of many legal systems of the world.
- •18. The text given below deals with the history and present state of the international law. Skim the text and arrange the numbers of its topics in the right order.
- •History of International Law
- •19. Answer the following questions:
- •Scanning reading
- •20. Scan the text "International Law and State Systems'' and speak:
- •International Law and State Systems
- •Section f Case study
- •21. The Arab-Israeli conflict
- •Section g Test (Time limit - 45 minutes)
- •International Law and National Law
- •Evaluation Scale
- •Section a
- •1. Read the following quotations. Try to understand their deep sense. Convey it to your classmates.
- •Section b Reading and speaking
- •2. Memorize the phrases below.
- •3. Read through the text and be ready to do comprehension check. Text 1 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- •4. Answer the following questions to the text. Do it in pairs.
- •5. Read the text, note all the words and phrases that are law terms. Text 2 The European Convention on Human Rights
- •6. Word study: Key Terms
- •7. Read through the text again and find answers to the questions that follow.
- •Ukraine is a party of the following international treaties
- •Ukraine signed but not yet ratified
- •Ukraine is a party of the following European treaties
- •Section c Language Study
- •Vocabulary
- •12. Match the expressions. Make up 5-6 sentences using them.
- •13. Find the equivalents of the definitions from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Articles 1-9)
- •14. Complete the following table and translate the words into Ukrainian.
- •19. Form nouns of the following verbs adding corresponding suffixes: -tion,
- •20. Choose the correct verb or noun form of the given words to complete each of the following statements.
- •22. Choose the appropriate connective from the list to complete the following text; use each connective once only:
- •Права людини
- •Стаття 2 ("Угода про створення співдружності незалежних держав")
- •Section d Listening
- •24. You are going to hear the text about the development of international human rights law.
- •Listening
- •Section e Skimming reading
- •25. Before you skim the text try to answer the questions:
- •26. Read through the words and phrases and try to memorize them.
- •27. Skim through the text fairly quickly and give the logical plan
- •Democracy
- •Scanning reading
- •27. Scan the text "The Court Judgement on the Tyrer's Case" and be ready to do the exercise that follow it.
- •The Court Judgement on the Tyrer’s Case
- •28. Decide which of the following statements are true, and correct any statements that are wrong.
- •30. Freedom of Expression
- •Section g Test (Time limit - 45 minutes)
- •Human Rights Violation
- •Evaluation Scale
- •International c riminal Law
- •1. How would you express the quotation in your own words?
- •Section b Reading and speaking
- •2. Do your best to understand the meaning of the terms “international criminal law”, “crimes against humanity”, “crimes against peace”, “war crimes”, “transnational crimes”.
- •3. Reading tasks:
- •International Criminal Law
- •4. Word study: Key Terms
- •5. Comprehension check
- •6. Use all the information you have learnt in this Unit so far to describe the distinction between genocide and crime against humanity.
- •Section c Language study
- •Vocabulary
- •7. Vocabulary: distinguishing meaning.
- •8. Match the terms in line “a” with their English equivalents in line “b”
- •9. Use the words and words combinations from the exercise above to complete the sentences below.
- •10. Match the terms in line “a” with their Ukrainian equivalents in line “b”
- •11. Choose the best word from the box given below to fill in each sentence.
- •12. Fill in the missing prepositions:
- •13. Translate the sentences into English using the key terms given in the unit.
- •Forming the Passive
- •14. Make the sentences passive:
- •15. Choose the appropriate form of the verb (active or passive):
- •16. Choose the correct form of the verb in brackets to complete the following sentences.
- •17. Translate the following sentences from Ukrainian into English.
- •Section d Listening
- •18. You are going to hear the text “Human Trafficking and Migration”.
- •Listening
- •Section e Skimming reading
- •19. The text given below deals with international crimes. Skim the text and find out the mistakes which are presented in ex. 20.
- •Legal Aspects of the Rainbow Warrior Affair
- •20. Twelve of the facts stated are wrong - can you find the mistakes? The Rainbow Warrior Affair: Summary of the Facts
- •22. Which of the following do you think are examples of “low-level use of force”?
- •Scanning reading
- •23. Scan the text “Extradition” and find out the information concerned:
- •Extradition
- •24. You are now going to hold an International Law moot.
- •Section g Test (Time Limit – 45 minutes)
- •Evaluation Scale
- •I nternational Humanitarian Law
- •1. How would you express the quotation in your own words?
- •Section b Reading and speaking
- •2. Read this poem and answer the following questions:
- •Imagine
- •3. Read through the text and find answers to the questions that follow it.
- •International Humanitarian Law
- •4. Word study: Key Terms
- •5. Answer the following questions. Do it in pairs.
- •Section c Language study
- •Vocabulary
- •7. Match the terms in line “a” with their Ukrainian equivalents in line “b”
- •8. Use the words and words combinations from the exercise above to complete the sentences below.
- •9. Match each term on the left with its explanation on the right. Try to memorize the meaning of the terms.
- •10. Choose the best word from the box given below to fill in each gap.
- •11. Fill in the missing prepositions from the list:
- •Un forces
- •12. Translate the sentences into English using the key terms given in the unit.
- •13. Reread the text and find out the examples of using adverb clauses of condition “whether or not”.
- •14. Use the given information to complete the sentences.
- •15. Complete the sentences with your own words.
- •I have to go to work tomorrow whether I feel better or not.
- •16. Choose the correct form of the verb in brackets to complete the following sentences. Nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
- •17. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Section d Listening
- •18. You are going to hear the text about “International Committee of the Red Cross” ( icrc), one of the most important organization of the ihl.
- •Listening
- •Section e Skimming reading
- •19. The text given below deals with “The international legal framework in humanitarian areas”. Skim the text and make the logical plan of the text.
- •The international legal framework in humanitarian areas
- •20. Answer the following questions:
- •Scanning reading
- •21. Scan the text “Preventing genocide and other violations of human rights” and find out information concerning:
- •Preventing Genocide and Other Violations of Human Rights
- •Section f Case study
- •22. Crimes against humanity.
- •Section g Test (Time Limit – 45 minutes)
- •Un forces
- •Evaluation Scale
- •Section b Reading and speaking
- •International Economic Law
- •5. Word study: Key Terms
- •6. Work in pairs. Answer the following questions to the text:
- •7. Read the text and use the information of the text to answer the questions on the international economic law that follow.
- •Section c Language study
- •Vocabulary
- •8. Make up as many word groups as you can, think of using words from Lines a and b. Use them in the sentences of your own.
- •9. Fill in the missing propositions:
- •10. Complete the following table and translate the words into Ukrainian. See the model.
- •11. Match key terms in line a with their English equivalents in line b.
- •12. Translate the sentences into English using the key terms.
- •13. Expressing quantity
- •14. Underline the correct word.
- •15. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Section d Listening
- •16. You will hear part of the program about the historical evolution of trade and the international economic laws which regulate it on the worldwide arena.
- •Listening
- •Section e Skimming reading
- •18. The text given below deals with the general principles of economic development.
- •General Principles of International Economic Law
- •19. Scan through the text “International Cooperation in Search of Energy Resources” and be ready to give information:
- •International Cooperation in Search of Energy Resources
- •20. Additional tasks
- •Section f Case Study
- •21. Trade Deals are Slowed by Bureaucracy
- •Section g
- •Global Regulation for a Global Industry
- •Evaluation Scale
- •International Environmental Law
- •1. Interpret the meaning of this quotation:
- •2. The relationship between man and nature has become one of the most vital problems facing civilization today.
- •Fire and Ice
- •Section b Reading and speaking
- •7. Try to remember the meaning of the following abbreviations. They will be used in the text below.
- •8. Do your best to understand the meaning of the terms and try to remember them
- •9. Read through the text and find answers to the questions that follow it.
- •International Environmental Law
- •10. Word study: Key terms
- •11. Work in pairs. Answer the following questions to the text:
- •12. Complete the sentences with the principles of environmental law listed in the text.
- •13. Complete these sentences using information from the text.
- •14. Think over the proper Ukrainian equivalents to the following word-combinations:
- •Section c Language study
- •Vocabulary
- •15. Match each term on the left with explanations on the right:
- •17. Complete these sentences with the correct derivative of the words at the end of the sentence.
- •18. Complete the collocations below by adding an appropriate noun. Some can combine with more than one noun.
- •19. Fill in the spaces using a suitable form of the word given at the end of the lines. The first is given as an example.
- •21. Render the text in English using given word-combinations. Гроші зі сміття
- •22. Which verb ending in –ify means:
- •23. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Section d Listening
- •24. You are going to hear the text about “Global Warming”
- •Listening
- •Section e Skimming reading
- •25. The text below deals with legal basis for biodiversity in Ukraine.
- •Legal Basis for Biodiversity Conservation
- •Scanning reading
- •26. Scan the text about the Kyoto Protocol in order to find answers to the following questions as quickly as possible.
- •The Kyoto Protocol
- •Section f Case study
- •27. Making the Donbas environmentally safe
- •Section g Test (Time Limit – 45 min.)
- •Evaluation Scale
- •International organizations
- •1. Translate the names of the following international organizations and try to explain their main task.
- •Reading and speaking
- •2. Read and express your own opinion on the following quotations by Sir Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of Great Britain 1874 -1965).
- •3. Try to guess the etymology of the word “organize“:
- •5. Match each term on the left with explanation on the right.
- •6. Read through the text and find answers to the questions that follow it:
- •International Organizations
- •7. Word Study: Key Terms
- •8. Work in pairs. Answer the following questions to the text:
- •9. Read and give your own vision of the following statement made by Nelson Mandela, Golda Meir, Markus Tullius Cicero, Adolf Hitler, Peter Druckner, Norman Douglas.
- •10. You are a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the International Conference devoted to problems of uno effectiveness in handling the international conflicts.
- •11. Brainstorming
- •Section c Language study
- •Vocabulary
- •12. Match a verb in a with the word combinations in b.
- •13. List “a” contains the names of International organizations and agencies. Choose an io or agency to fit each definition in List “b”.
- •14. Dependent prepositions. Read the text and fill in the missing prepositions.
- •16. Match key terms in line a with their English equivalents in line b.
- •18. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian and name the Passive Voice.
- •19. Translate the following sentences into English paying attention to the Passive Voice.
- •20. Look through the text and find examples of passive voice. Write these examples in your note-books. Section d Listening
- •21. You are going to hear the text about Interpol.
- •Listening
- •Section e Skimming reading
- •International Court of Justice
- •23. Answer the following questions:
- •Scanning reading
- •The United Nations
- •Section f Case study
- •25. European Union and Ukraine
- •Section g Test (Time limit - 45 minutes)
- •Evaluation Scale
- •1. Discuss the following statement. Express your own vision of this problem.
- •Section b Reading and speaking
- •2. Find as much information as possible about the European Union.
- •3. Discuss your idea as to the reasons for the development of a single Europe.
- •4. Read through the text and be ready to do comprehension check. The European Union
- •5. Word study: Key Terms
- •6. Comprehension check
- •7. Fill the table with the suitable information about the role, membership, presidency and voting of such legal institutions.
- •8. Use the context to work out the probable meaning of the following words and phrases in the text.
- •Section c Language study
- •Vocabulary
- •10. Choose the right prepositions in brackets according to the content of the sentences.
- •11. Try to memorize the following word combinations and use them to complete the sentences given below. There is more than one possibility.
- •12. Match each term in Line a with their Ukrainian equivalent in Line b.
- •13. Rearrange the underlined letters to make words in the extracts below.
- •14. Translate the following sentences into English using the key terms given in the unit.
- •15. Fill in the Article where necessary:
- •16. Fill in the Article where necessary:
- •17. Choose the correct form of the verb in brackets to complete the following sentences. Make a point of using the Passives.
- •18. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Section d Listening
- •19. You are going to hear the text about the main bodies of the eu.
- •Listening
- •Section e Skimming reading
- •20. Before you skim the text try to answer the following questions:
- •21. Skim the text “The Sources of the European Community Law” and make the logical plan of the text.
- •The Sources of European Community Law
- •22. Answer the questions:
- •Scanning reading
- •23. Scan the text “The legislative process of the eu” and find out the information concerning:
- •The Legislative Process of the eu
- •Section f Case study
- •24. The free movement of workers
- •Relevant documents
- •Section g Test (Time limit – 45 minutes)
- •Evaluation Scale
- •1. Express your ideas on the following quotations:
- •Section b Reading and Speaking
- •2. Based on the title write 3-4 questions which you think you will find the answers to in the text.
- •3. Read through the text to find the answers to your predicted questions.
- •4. Work at the word-combinations to understand the text better
- •5. Work in pairs. Answer the following questions to the text:
- •Section c Language study
- •Vocabulary
- •6. Match each term on the left with its explanation on the right. Try and memorize the meanings of the terms.
- •7. Make up as many word-combinations as you can (lines a and b). Use them in sentences of your own. Do it as in the model: 3 - g
- •8. Complete the following table as in the model: number1. Translate the words into Ukrainian.
- •9. Read through the abstract concerning the foreign ships which exercise the Right of Innocent Passage and express your opinion on the situation:
- •10. Match Ukrainian key-terms in line a with their English equivalents in line b as in the model: 1-c
- •11. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian.
- •13. Learning grammar theory bits about Sentence – Adverbs (certainly, normally, fairly) and their functions will help you to express your opinion:
- •14. Mind sentence- adverbs of a compound character.
- •15. Translate sentence- adverbs in the following text.
- •16. Use sentence - adverbs in the following sentences.
- •Section d Listening
- •17. You are going to hear the text “Criminals at Sea”.
- •Listening
- •18. Listen to the text “Criminals at Sea”.
- •19. Post listening task
- •Section e Skimming reading
- •International Maritime Organizations (imo)
- •Scanning reading
- •20. The text given below deals with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established to solve maritime disputes.
- •International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
- •Section f Case Study
- •21. Protest Flotilla to Intercept Plutonium Shipment in the Channel
- •Section g Test (time limit – 45 minutes)
- •The Juridical Nature of the Territorial Sea
- •For in on of from by to
- •Evaluation Scale
- •International Trade Law
- •1. How would you express the quotation in your own words?
- •Section b Reading and speaking
- •2. Do your best to understand the meaning of the terms “international economic law”, “international trade”, “industrialization”, “globalization”, “multinational corporation”.
- •3. Read the text and find answers to the questions that follow it.
- •International Trade Law
- •4. Word study: Key Terms
- •5. Answer the following questions. Do it in pairs.
- •6. Use all the information you have learnt so far in this Unit to describe the distinction between international economic law and international trade law.
- •Section c Language study
- •Vocabulary
- •8. Find logical links: which noun in b can go with the verb in a?
- •9. List ‘a’ contains some basic terms in the field of business. Choose a term to fit each definition in List ‘b’.
- •10. Fill in the missing prepositions:
- •11. Match the key terms in Line a with their English equivalents in Line b.
- •12. Translate the sentences into English using the key terms given in the unit.
- •13. Fill in the missing words in the definitions below. Choose from the following:
- •14. Adverbs can go in three positions, depending on their type.
- •15. Put the adverbs in the right place in the sentences.
- •16. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Section d Listening
- •17. You are going to hear the text “North American Free Trade Agreement (nafta)”. Before listening to the text, discuss the following questions:
- •Listening
- •Section e Skimming reading
- •18. The text given below deals with “The World Trade Organization”
- •The World Trade Organization
- •Scanning reading
- •19. Scan the text “International Monetary Fund” and find out information for the discussion of the following issues:
- •International Monetary Fund
- •Section f Case study
- •20. Planning to improve the economic and investment climate
- •Section g Test (Time limit – 45 minutes)
- •Human trafficking and migration
- •International Committee of the Red Cross (icrc)
- •Interpol
- •WordList
- •Abbreviations
- •Reference List
Evaluation Scale
Points |
Mark(s) |
ECTS mark(s) |
45-50 |
5 |
A |
40-44 |
4 |
B |
35-39 |
4 |
C |
31-34 |
3 |
D |
26-30 |
3 |
E |
16-25 |
2 |
F |
0-15 |
2 |
FX |
Unit Nine
The
Law of the Sea
Section A
Warmer:
1. Express your ideas on the following quotations:
a. “Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law”.
Sophocles, ancient Greek dramatist (496-406 B.C.)
b. “To say that only practice can breed perfection in any art is not to deny the value of law precept and example”.
John W. Davis, American politician, diplomat and lawyer.
Notes: sacred – священний, святий
breed – виховувати, піднімати, навчати
precept – настанова, правило, акт
Section b Reading and Speaking
Before you read:
2. Based on the title write 3-4 questions which you think you will find the answers to in the text.
3. Read through the text to find the answers to your predicted questions.
The Law of the Sea
The seas have historically performed two important functions: firstly, as a medium of communication, and secondly, as a reservoir of resources, both living and non-living. Both of these functions stimulated the development of legal rules.
The seas were at one time thought capable of subjection to national sovereignties. The Portuguese, in particular, in the seventeenth century proclaimed huge tracts of the high seas as part of the their territorial domain, but these claims stimulated a response by Grotius who elaborated the doctrine of the open seas, whereby the oceans were to be accessible to all nations but incapable of appropriation. This view prevailed, partly because it accorded with the interest of the North European states, which demanded freedom of the seas for the purposes of exploration and expanding commercial intercourse with the East.
The freedom of the high seas rapidly became a basic principle of international law, but not all the seas were so characterized. Much of the history of the law of the sea has centered on the extent of the territorial sea or the precise location of the dividing line between it and the high seas and other recognized zones.
But the present century has witnessed continual pressure by states to enlarge the maritime belt and thus subject more of the oceans to their exclusive jurisdiction.
Beyond the territorial sea, other jurisdictional zones have been in process of development. Coastal states may now exercise particular jurisdictional functions in the contiguous zone, and the trend of international law today is moving rapidly in favour of even larger zones in which the coastal state may enjoy certain to the exclusion of other nations, such as fishery zones, continental shelves and, more recently, exclusive economic zones. However, in each case whether a state is entitled to a territorial sea, continental shelf or exclusive economic zone is a question to be decided by the law of the sea.
This gradual shift in the law of the sea towards the enlargement of the territorial sea (the accepted limit is now a width of 12 miles in contrast to 3 miles some thirty years ago), coupled with the continual assertion of jurisdiction rights over portions of what were regarded as high seas, reflects a basic change in emphasis in the attitude of states to the sea.
The law relating to the seas, therefore, has been in a state of flux for several decades as the conflicting principles have manifested themselves.
A series of conferences have been held, which led to the four 1958 Conventions on the law of the Sea and then to the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea. The 1958 Convention on the High Seas was stated in its preamble to be ‘generally declaratory of established principles of international law’, while the other three 1958 instruments can be generally accepted as containing both reiterations of existing rules and new rules.
The pressures leading to the Law of the Sea Conference, which lasted between 1974 and 1982 and involved a very wide range of states and international organizations, included a variety of economic, political and strategic factors. Many Third World states wished to develop the exclusive economic zone idea, by which coastal states would have extensive rights over a 200-mile zone beyond the territorial sea, and were keen to establish international control over the deep seabed, so as to prevent the technologically advanced states from being able to extract minerals from this vital and vast source freely and without political constraint.
The 1982 Convention contains 320 articles and 9 Annexes. It was adopted by 130 votes to 4, with 17 abstentions. The Convention entered into force on 16 November 1994, twelve months after the required 60 ratifications.
A merchant ship in foreign internal waters is automatically subject to the local jurisdiction although where purely disciplinarian issues related to the ship's crew are involved, which do not concern the maintenance of peace within the territory of the coastal state, then such matters would by courtesy be left to the authorities of the flag ship to regulate. Although some writers have pointed to theoretical differences between the common law and French approaches, in practice the same fundamental proposition applies.
Word study: