
- •I. Lead-in. Brainstorming section:
- •Reading:
- •Read the text, paying attention to the translation of italicized words and word combinations. Answer the check-up questions: preview
- •Part I the definition and the scope of international law
- •What is international law?
- •In international law, a “state” is a recognized and independent country
- •Enforcement:
- •Part II functions of international law
- •Complete the following sentences using the required information from the text above:
- •Define if the following sentences are true or false. Use the required information from the text above and correct the false statements:
- •Vocabulary section/ language focus:
- •Study the definitions of the following terms and find examples of its practical use:
- •Fill in the blanks with the prepositions:
- •Study the use of the phrases with “law” and translate the sentences given below into Ukrainian:
- •Legal Latin. Match each Latin word or expression with its English equivalent:
- •Grammar focus:
- •1. Use the verbs in the correct form:
- •Complete the sentences below using the correct form of the verbs from the box:
- •Project:
- •Explaining legal terms. Match the halves of these sentences, which contain phrases for explaining legal terms to non-lawyers:
- •Complete the following sentences using the prepositions from the box: between by by for hereby herein in
Define if the following sentences are true or false. Use the required information from the text above and correct the false statements:
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1. The modern system of international law developed in Europe from the 15th century onwards and is now accepted by all countries around the world. |
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2. Like any legal system, international law is designed to regulate and shape behavior, to prevent violations, and to provide remedies for violations when they occur. |
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3. Private international law concerns itself only with questions of rights between several nations or nations and the citizens or subjects of other nations. |
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4. The substantial part of international law, therefore, concerns dispute resolution but dispute avoidance, it focuses on the day-to-day regulation of international relations. |
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5. Domestic (municipal or national) law, the law within a State, is concerned with the rights and duties of legal persons within the State. |
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6. Monism can adequately explain the relationship between international and domestic law. |
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7. Social functions of International Law- stabilization and strengthening of relations between subjects of international law. |
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8. The rules and principles of international law are increasingly important to the functioning of our interdependent world and include area such as: - voting system in different countries. |
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9. International law differs from domestic law in two |
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central respects: law-making process and enforcement. |
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10. Dualism holds that international law and domestic law are separate bodies of law, operating independently of each other. |
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11. National laws and courts are often an important means through which international law is implemented in practice. |
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12. In international law, a ‘state’ is a recognized and independent country or nation. |
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13. The theories of monism and dualism are not the two main theories that explain the relationship between international and domestic law. |
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Vocabulary section/ language focus:
Study the definitions of the following terms and find examples of its practical use:
Private person - 1. any individual who is a citizen or national of a state; 2. any corporation, partnership, association, or other legal entity organized or existing under the law of any state, whether for profit or not for profit;
International dispute - a disagreement that arises between states concerning their relations with one another and with other states;
Non-state actors - are categorized as entities that participating or acting in the sphere of international relations; organizations with sufficient power to influence and cause change in politics which are not belonging to or existing as a state-structure or established institution of a state; are not holding the characteristics of this, these being legal sovereignty and some measure of control over a countries people and territories;
Corporation - the most common form of business organization, and one which is chartered by a state and given many legal rights as an entity separate from
its owners;
Armed militant groups - vigorously active, combative, aggressive and favouring confrontational or violent methods in support of a political or social cause armed groups of people;
Indigenous peoples - are ethnic groups that are defined as "indigenous" according to one of the various definitions of the term, though there is no universally accepted definition;
Intellectual property - describes a wide variety of property created by musicians, authors, artists, and inventors;
Extradition - the surrender of an alleged offender or fugitive to the state in whose territory the alleged offence was committed;
Human rights - The basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law;
Refugee protection - protecting the rights of the persecuted;
Violation - entry to another's property without right or permission;
Remedy - a legal order of preventing or redressing a wrong or enforcing a
right;
Domestic, municipal- issued on the authority of a local or state government;
Law-making process- the act of making or enacting laws;
Law-making body- a lawmaking body is called a "legislature";
Resolution - a court decision;
Enforcement - ensuring obedience to the laws;
Mediation - is a form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), a way of resolving disputes between two or more parties with concrete effects;
International Court of Justice - a court established to settle disputes between members of the United Nations;
UN Security Council - the permanent peacekeeping organ of the United Nations, composed of five permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and ten elected members;
UN Charter - is the foundational treaty of the international organization called the United Nations. It was signed at the San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building and Performing Arts Center in San Francisco, United States, on 26 June 1945, by 50 of the 51 original member countries (Poland, the other original member, which was not represented at the conference, signed it two months later);
Arbitration - a process in which a disagreement between two or more parties is resolved by impartial individuals, called arbitrators, in order to avoid costly and lengthy litigation;
International tribunal - international court of justice;
Implementation - an act of implementing or putting into effect; fulfillment.