Bachelor 2024/2025

Litigation in International Courts and Dispute Settlement Bodies

Type: Compulsory course (Law)

Area of studies: Law

Delivered by: School of International Law

Where: Faculty of Law

When: 3 year, 4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Старшинова Ольга Сергеевна

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 40

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course is focused on the development of practical litigation and negotiations skills and is designed as training aimed to gain knowledge of the basics of the dispute settlement process in different fields of public international law from a practical perspective. The course comprises three parts. In the introductory part, students will have an opportunity to recall the main principles of international dispute settlement and to refresh their knowledge on the dispute settlement process in the International Court of Justice. During the second part students will become acquainted with the dispute settlement process in the WTO Dispute Settlement Body. The focus will be made on practical aspects of work of the litigation lawyer: students will learn about how to prepare written submissions and oral pleadings, how to respond to complicated questions on the spot. Finally, the last part of the course is dedicated to the investor-state and state-state dispute settlement process. Students will learn how to prepare to and to conduct inter-state negotiations of the relevant chapters of bilateral treaties.