- •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:
IV. Choose the right word
a demand-a requirement
1. The UN offered emergent States a crucial forum where they could put forward ….. and try to reach some sort of compromise with the industrialized States. 2. The first obligation is ….. that each member grant all other parties most-favoured-nation treatment in the field of imports or exports, that is, treat other GATT member in the same manner as the country to which it grants the most favourable conditions.
to be geared to-to be aimed at
1. The IMF also ….. promoting the development of international trade, by ensuring the stability of foreign exchange. 2. The financial support of the Fund is essentially ….. alleviating the cost of crises and averting competitive devaluation or protectionism measures disruptive of international trade.
to be adjusted to-to be attuned to
1. All three international institutions ….. their policy, at least in part, ….. the North-South question, albeit in a manner which developing countries still consider inadequate. 2. Developing countries have repeatedly endeavoured to prompt the financial and economic institutions established in the aftermath of World War II …… their policies … special conditions.
An obligation-an undertaking
1. Another ….. prescribes that imported goods be treated no worse than domestic good under internal taxation or regulation measures. 2. ….. it is plain, strikes at the very heart of the protectionist tendency of most States. 3. Contracting Parties to GATT 1947 that accept all the undertakings deriving from the Uruguay Round automatically become original members of the WTO.
to ensure-to guarantee
The international community has adopted the establishment of mechanism designed ….. foreign investments in developing countries. 2. The Fund was established ….. monetary and financial stability in international relations.
Grammar revision.
I. Translate from English into Russian
To meet the needs of poor countries the Bank changed its lending techniques, with regard tp the countries concerned.
The Bank has made leans that are primarily designed to protect the environment in developing countries.
The International Bank for Reconstruction and development made loan terms longer, and differentiated between the interest rates charged to industrialized States and those to developing nations.
The Bank is corporate in form, all its capital stock being owned by its member States; the amount of their shares is established on the basis of the quotas set for participating in the IMF.
The Bank’s primary statutory goals, namely, ‘the restoration of economies destroyed or disrupted by war’ and the ‘reconversion of productive facilities to peaceful needs’ were primary attained through activities carried out directly by the USA.
If the borrower is not a government, the loan must be guaranteed by the government in whose territory the project financed by the loan is located.
Loans made only for technically and economically valid projects, are long term and incur current interest rate.
Loans are made in instalments payment of which can be held up whenever the essential economic objectives of the adjustment programme are not fulfilled.
To meet the specific needs of developing countries the Find set up mechanisms designed to increase the lending of financial resources to those countries.
The lending of financial resources to developing countries has come about through the increase in the maximum limit on authorized drawing, and through the establishment of special resources designed to take into account the wide range of causes of disequilibria in the balance of payment.
Initially loans were made in the form of stand-by-arrangements, in order promptly to intervene in the event of balance of payment crises; they were granted for short periods and were to be repaid within a brief time span.
The Agreement, unlike the Articles instituting the Bank and the IMF, did not create an international organization; however over the years an international organization; however over the years an organizational structure did evolve, operating between the sessions of the contracting parties, held twice a year in Geneva.
Another obligation prescribes that imported goods be treated no worse than domestic goods under internal taxation or regulation measures.
While the most-favoured-nation clause is designed to provide non-discriminatory treatment for imports from different foreign countries, this obligation puts foreign goods on the same footing as those produced domestically.
In practice the structure of the WTO has formalized that with which the GATT had progressively endowed itself.
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