- •Unit I the definition of international law lead-in
- •I. Answer the questions
- •II. Comment on the following
- •Reading
- •I. Read the text. The nature of international law1
- •Is international law “law” in the true sense of the word?
- •V. Read the text. The nature and function of international law2
- •II. Answer the questions.
- •III. Complete the following sentences. Use the required information from the text above.
- •IV. Define if the following sentences are true or false. Use the required information from the text above and correct the false statements.
- •What is International Law
- •VI. Answer the questions.
- •VII. Complete the following sentences. Use the required information from the text above.
- •VIII. Define if the following sentences are true or false. Use the required information from the text above and correct the false statements.
- •IV. Read the text and translate the phrases in brackets into English. Render the information close to the text.
- •International human rights law
- •Project
- •Термін “міжнародне право”7
- •Поняття міжнародного права
- •Writing
- •I. Find possible definitions of the term “international law”. Compare them.
- •II. Make a list of positive or negative effects of globalization and its impact on the international legal order and compare it with your peer’s list/ ideas. Listening
- •I. Listen to the Lecture “What is General International Law?”
- •II. Answer the questions.
- •III. Further listening.
- •I. Brainstorm the given statement about international law and discuss it with your peer or group.
- •I. Read the text and study the information about the main principles and sources of international law.
- •II. Answer the questions.
- •III. Complete the following sentences using the required information from the text above.
- •IV. 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:
- •I. Vocabulary notes
- •II. Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right.
- •III. Fill in the gaps with the words from the vocabulary notes:
- •IV. Legal Latin:
- •Project
- •Writing
- •I. Choose the words that correspond to the following definitions:
- •II. Word formation. Complete the following tables:
- •Listening
- •II. Answer the questions.
- •Appendix
- •III. Use the information in the excerpt that follows and match each Latin term (1-10) with its English equivalent (a-j):
- •Grammar and language study section
- •I. Word formation. Complete the following tables:
- •II. Translate the sentences into English using the key terms:
- •Project Міжнародний договір як джерело міжнародного права.
- •Writing
- •Unit III system of international law lead-in
- •I. Answer the questions:
- •II. Comment on the following:
- •Reading
- •I. Read the text.
- •The conception of international law as a legal system9
- •The Systemic Vision as a Delegation of Authority
- •Achievements and Challenges for the Systemic Vision of International Law
- •II. Answer the questions.
- •II. Complete the following sentences using the required information from the text above.
- •III. Define if the following sentences are true or false. Use the required information from the text above and correct the false statements.
- •Language focus
- •I. Vocabulary notes
- •II. Fill in the gaps. Use the above words and expressions:
- •IV. Translate into English.
- •V. Provide the English and Ukrainian equivalents of the following expressions:
- •VI. Match the Latin expressions with their English equivalents:
- •VII. Match terms on the left with their definitions on the right:
- •VIII. Translate into English:
- •Project
- •Система міжнародного права10
- •Система галузей, інститутів та норм міжнародного права
- •Види галузей системи міжнародного права
- •1. Summarize the peculiarities of a branch of international law: define the subject, main principles and institutions thereof.
- •2. Make a list of cases when norms of the branch shall be applied.
- •I. Answer the questions:
- •II. Comment on the following:
- •Reading
- •I. Read the text. Main principles of international law
- •II. Answer the questions.
- •III. Complete the following sentences. Use the required information from the text above.
- •IV. Define if the following sentences are true or false. Use the required information from the text above and correct the false statements:
- •Language focus
- •I. Vocabulary notes.
- •II. Fill in the gaps. Use the above words and expressions:
- •III. Study the use of the phrases with “principle” and translate the sentences given below into Ukrainian: principle
- •IV. Render the following sentences into Ukrainian.
- •V. Match terms on the left with their definitions on the right:
- •VI. Translate into English.
- •VII. Fill in the gaps. Translate into Ukrainian:
- •Project
- •Case concerning the military and paramilitary activities in and against nicaragua (nicaragua V. United states of america)
- •II. Translate into Ukrainian:
- •III. Translate into English:
- •IV. Translate the following:
- •V. Answer the following questions concerning the case:
- •VI. In groups of three-four discuss this information and get ready to present the position of Nicaragua, United States of America and arguments of the International Court of Justice.
- •I. Give examples of cases concerning violation of fundamental principles of international law in current international relations.
- •II. Make a list of pros and cons of actions of international actors in the situation.
- •I. Answer the questions
- •Reading
- •I. Read the text. Legal personality in international law11
- •Introduction
- •II. Comment on the following
- •Conceptions
- •II. Answer the questions.
- •III. Complete the following sentences using the required information from the text above.
- •IV. Define if the following sentences are true or false. Use the required information from the text above and correct the false statements.
- •V. Read the text. The state12
- •Recognition
- •VI. Translate into Ukrainian.
- •VII. Read the text. The role of international organizations13
- •International Organization Legal Rules
- •VIII. Read the text. The individual14
- •Language focus
- •I. Study the use of the phrases with “subject”
- •II. Translate into English
- •III. Study the use of the phrases with “state” and translate the sentences given below into Ukrainian:
- •IV. Use the verbs in the correct form:
- •V. Complete the sentences below using the correct form of the verbs in the box:
- •Project
- •Суб'єкти міжнародного права15 Поняття суб’єктa міжнародного права
- •Основні риси і особливості міжнародної правосуб’єктності
- •Інститут міжнародної правосуб’єктності
- •Держава - основний суб’єкт міжнародного права
- •Міжнародна правосуб’єктність міжнародних організацій
- •Міжнародна правосуб’єктність фізичної особи
- •Визнання держав
- •Writing
- •Self-control
- •III. Match these words with prefixes (1-6) with their definitions (a-f):
- •Unit VI
- •International law and national law(s) lead-in
- •I. Answer the questions
- •II. Comment on the following
- •Reading
- •I. Read the text.
- •International law and national law16
- •Theories Monism
- •Dualism
- •Different subject matter
- •II. Answer the questions.
- •III. Complete the following sentences. Use the required information from the text above.
- •IV. Define if the following sentences are true or false. Use the required information from the text above and correct the false statements.
- •Language focus
- •I. Vocabulary notes.
- •II. Fill in the gaps with the suitable forms of the following words:
- •III. Fill in the blanks with: in, of, upon, to, into, within, therein, by, between, under, while or no preposition
- •IV. Translate into English:
- •1. Render the following text into English. In groups of three-four discuss this information and get ready to inform the students of other groups about your findings/conclusions:
- •Writing
- •I. Write an essay on the following topic “Monism or Dualism in Ukraine”.
- •II. Make a list of pros and cons of strengthening domestic institutions in our country and compare it with your peer’s list/ideas. Self-control
- •I. Word formation:
- •I. Listen to the Lecture “The Relationship between International Law and Municipal Law”
- •II. Answer the questions.
- •III. Further listening.
Writing
Write an essay on sources and main principles of international law. First, refer to Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice (also known as the World Court) to investigate what it has to say about the sources of international law. Afterwards, follow with describing other possible sources of legalization. In conclusion, express your opinion on the sources of international law and their role in solving international disputes.
ЛІТЕРАТУРА:
Aquamar, S.A. v. Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc., 179 F.3d 1279, 1295 (11th Cir. 1999).
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/291011/international-law/233500/Custom
"Beck's Law Dictionary": A Compendium of International Law Terms and Phrases
Malcolm N. Shaw “International law”, 6th edition, Cambridge, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legal_Latin_terms
И.И. Лукашук, Международное право Особенная часть, Москва, Волтерс Клувер 2005
А.І.Дмитрієв, В.І.Муравйов, Міжнародне публічне право, Київ, Юрінком Інтер 2000
http://www.google.ru/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=джерела%20міжнародного%20права&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CEsQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lnu.edu.ua%2Ffaculty%2Fpravo%2Fmpp%2Fs1%2FT_2.doc&ei=PlIjUtXiCsXWtAaE3oGAAg&usg=AFQjCNE3xJYdpA-P7MJAqGqgv9-qAAst0g&bvm=bv.51495398,d.Yms&cad=rjt
Unit III system of international law lead-in
I. Answer the questions:
1. How can the term “system” be defined?
2. What are the elements of the system of national law? Give definition of the latter.
3. What is the difference between institution and branch of national law?
4. What are the branches of national law?
II. Comment on the following:
1. We may define a system as a mechanical or theoretical organization of components, distinct from its environment, that adds something new, and often unexpected, to our understanding of the ensemble of components out of which it was constructed (International Law as a Unitary System by A. D’Amato).
2. Law is a system of legal relations which condition social action to serve the common interest (The concept of international law by P. Allot).
Reading
I. Read the text.
The idea of law. In spite of everything, seems still
to be stronger than any ideology of power.
H. Kelsen
The conception of international law as a legal system9
[…] The systematic approach - “the emphatically academic and scientific spirit of legal scholarship with its struggle for rationality, systematic coherence, logical consistency, building on first principles, obsession with taxonomy, abstractness, precision and clarity of concepts that characterizes German legal culture” - has been particularly helpful in constructing a global world view of law that delimits national sovereignty and governs inter-state relations. “[T]he traditional approach of English law with its virtual absence of clear divisions of the law and a ‘tradition of working disorder’ where lawyers categorized and compartmentalized only at a relatively low level of abstraction” could not compete in this endeavor. The systemic vision organizes the diverse types of communications between states - actions, agreements, declarations, even silence - as legal obligations arranged within a certain hierarchy and internal coherence. That today most contemporary students, scholars and practitioners envision international law as a legal system is arguably the outcome of German public law scholarship.
The systemic vision of international law, developed during the nineteenth century by German (or German-speaking) scholars such as Georg Friedrich von Martens, August Wilhelm Heffter and Johann Caspar Bluntschli, contributed to the evolving legal order, because it provided room for both continuity and change: continuity of the basic principles of a legal system, with its rules of recognition, coupled with the appreciation of the role of judges in developing the law through interpretation, and change through the ample opportunities state actors have to adjust specific norms by their practice. The accommodation, by this vision, of both continuity and change pays its respects both to the notion of state sovereignty and to the fundamental goals of the community of states, as they evolve over the years.
The vision of international law as a legal system is not the only possible vision. A recent trend in international law scholarship, particularly in the United States, challenges this view, offering a vision of international law as nothing more than a mix of solitary treaties hovering over the abyss of international anarchy in no particular hierarchy. Even the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, according to this view, is a document designed to clarify treaty obligations, rather than an instrument identifying key rules of recognition of the legal system. Under this vision, state sovereignty reigns supreme, and the international obligations of states - which are not necessarily legal obligations - fluctuate with the ebb and flow of world events.
Fortunately for the proponents of the vision of international law as a legal system, the German approach has been influential also beyond Germany. It was introduced to the Anglo-American world through the writings of German and German-speaking ?migr?s such as Francis Lieber, Lassa Oppenheim, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, Georg Schwarzenberger, Hans Kelsen, and many others. In the works of all of these scholars, there is a pronounced endeavor to create a coherent system of laws, one that resolves potentially contradictory outcomes and allows lawyers and courts to bridge across the archipelago of treaties and disparate state practice to fill legal voids. The recent International Law Commission report on fragmentation, with its suggestion that no international undertaking is beyond the reach of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, and the increasing resort by international tribunals and domestic courts to the concepts of erga onmes and jus cogens obligations are evidence of the durability of this approach.