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Апрель

Mentor's seminar of the track "International Dispute Resolution"

2021/2022
Учебный год
ENG
Обучение ведется на английском языке
5
Кредиты
Статус:
Курс обязательный
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 1, 3, 4 модуль

Преподаватели

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The seminar is devoted to the development of legal research skills, team-building and team-working skills, critical thinking, legal drafting and time-management. The specific feature of the seminar is that it creates a unique platform for the regular discussion on the latest international cases, on-going projects in the sphere of international law and policy, recent developments and trends. The course also helps students to choose the topic of the master thesis and work on it together with other students.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • Main purpose of the course is to make students able to deal with the typical cases resolved in international litigation and arbitration, make research, prepare and represent legal argumentation. As the result of the course students will obtain knowledge on legal mechanism of international dispute resolution, recent developments in the sphere.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Skills and abilities: ─ Use specific terms and sources of international litigation; ─ Practical abilities of research, analysis of cases and commentaries; ─ Skills to analyze and solve cases, building up of the legal position and composition of procedural documents; ─ Oral skills and rhetoric; ─ Effective work in professional group; ─ Preparation for participation in real procedures, representing parties.
  • Students must gain knowledge on: ─ International litigation and arbitration, regulatory framework of international dispute resolution, forms and essential characteristics of international dispute resolution, cooperation between international tribunals and national courts; ─ Applicable procedures used by the international tribunals, providing of legal positions, taking of evidence, types, nature and consequences of judgements of international tribunals as well as their implementation.
  • Students should gain the following competences: - Ability to find most effective and appropriate legal decision of the problem, develop problem-oriented and client-oriented approaches; - Ability to search, analyze, and work with legally relevant information by using the juridical, comparative and other specific methods, - Ability to describe legal problems and situations occurring in professional sphere.
  • Students should gain the following competences: - Ability to work with information (search, evaluate, criticize, use information, necessary for fulfilment of scientific and professional tasks, from various sources, including application of the systematic approach); - Ability to work in international legal environment, use international law in day-to-day legal activity.
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Application and interpretation of the international law by the court and tribunals
  • Legal argumentation in international litigation and arbitration
  • Ratio decidendi in the decisions of international courts
  • Forum shopping issues in international dispute resolution
  • National and international courts: competition and interaction
  • Execution and implementation of the international judgements in national legal systems
  • Legal remedies used by international tribunals
  • “Fake evidence” problem in international tribunals
  • “Political factor” in international dispute resolution system
  • States in international tribunals
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Active work on the seminars
  • non-blocking Presentation of the case
  • non-blocking Case study (examination)
    Graded assessment of the level of acquired knowledge and developed skills during the Course; includes questions covering syllabus material, i.e. theoretical and practical dimensions and oral representation (case study). Parameters: 60-minute exam (case study, mini moot court).
  • non-blocking Active work on the seminars
  • non-blocking Presentation of the case
  • non-blocking Case study (examination)
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2021/2022 4th module
    0.25 * Active work on the seminars + 0.25 * Presentation of the case + 0.5 * Case study (examination)
  • 2022/2023 2nd module
    0.25 * Presentation of the case + 0.5 * Case study (examination) + 0.25 * Active work on the seminars
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • International commercial disputes : commercial conflict of laws in English courts, Hill, J., 2010
  • International law, Shaw, M. N., 2017

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Silje A. Langvatn, Mattias Kumm, & Wojciech Sadurski. (2020). Public Reason and Courts. Cambridge University Press.