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.