Undergraduate track ‘International Law’

• studying on a formula ‘law plus intensive language training’;
• all legal courses of the track are taught in English;
• preparation for international law competitions;
• the best lecturers and effective teaching methods;
• involvement of practicing lawyers in the teaching process;
• International Legal English course;
• courses in Legal Advocacy and Legal Writing;
• participation in mobility programmes at partner universities.

The ‘International Law’ track aims to produce broadly trained international lawyers. Knowledge and skills in the most sought-after areas of the legal services market, combined with specialized language training, will enable graduates of the track after completing their Bachelor’s degree program to get a job in law firms or in the civil service, as well as to enter specialized Master’s programs in International law both in Russia and abroad

The inclusion of the English-language track ‘International Law’ to the undergraduate curriculum is a response to the processes of globalization and internationalization, which happen beyond the division into branches of law and levels of legal regulation. International economic relations, including investment protection and regulation of international finance, as well as contemporary integration processes, problems and challenges of post-industrial society, and human rights are studied in the international track through the prism of interaction of global, regional and national levels of legal regulation. Graduates of the track will not only know the provisions of international treaties and customs, as well as navigate through key judicial and arbitral decisions and approaches presented in scholarship, but will also acquire important skills in legal writing, drafting procedural documents and presenting legal positions in courts and tribunals, gain competences of teamwork and time management.

The ‘International Law’ track is designed to combine enhanced language training with teaching of specialized legal disciplines in English. The curriculum includes English at an advanced level. In addition, the students on the track will be recommended to take academic exchange programs at one of the foreign partner universities. A methodological peculiarity of the track is a close connection with practice and the intertwining of preparation for various international and Russian competitions in International Law into the educational process. For this purpose, the track provides a special training workshop ‘Litigation in International Courts and Dispute Settlement Bodies’ and a course ‘International Arbitration’.

It is planned to enroll students in one group (30 persons) on the basis of a portfolio contest (English language skills, rating, achievements, motivation, etc.). 

Prof. Vera Rusinova

• Punishment and Prevention of Genocide in the Light of International Jurisprudence
• Qualification of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict under jus ad bellum
• International legal obligations of States, not participating in the armed conflict
• International law and the right to control AI
• International Humanitarian Law in the face of the use of AI
• International law and the struggle with the digital divide.

Prof. Darya Boklan

• Interrelation between principles of sovereignty over natural recourses and free trade
• International legal protection of Arctic ecosystem
• Development of principle of international cooperation within the BRICS
• Trade and environmental protection: international legal perspective

Ass. Prof. Olga Starshinova

• WTO Security Exceptions: Practical Implications
• Reform of the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding
• Consistency of Unilateral Trade Restrictive Measures with the WTO rules
• Consistency of Unilateral Trade Restrictive Measures with Investment Treaties

Ass. Prof. Aleksey Petrenko

• The Advisory Function of International Courts: Limits, Discretion and Relevance
• Advisory Opinion of the ITLOS on Climate Change and Legal Consequences of its Adoption  
• Exceptions to the Procedure of Functioning of the Internal Goods Market
• Delimitation of Extended Continental Shelf

Ass. Prof. Vladimir Talanov

• Delimitation of the arctic continental shelf between Russia and the USA: modern challenges 
• Judicial economy in the WTO proceedings 
• Abuse of right in international economic law
• Direct effect of WTO law in domestic legal orders

Ass. Prof. Maria Filatova 

• Procedural foundations of international adjudication 
• General and individual measures in the practice of international courts and tribunals
• Enforcement of international courts' judgments: theory and practice 
• International obligations of the Russian Federation in the area of human rights protection 

Lecturer Vladimir Kostsov

• Unilateral sanctions and investment arbitration: jurisdiction and remedies available to an investor (exact wording to be confirmed depending on paper skeleton)
• Multi-party arbitration: legal issues associated with the involvement of third parties or additional parties in an arbitration proceeding (exact wording to be confirmed depending on paper skeleton)
• Umbrella clause in investment arbitration: jurisdictional and substantive effects (or "Contract versus treaty claims in international investment arbitration) 
• The iura novit curia principle before international courts and tribunals (or in international arbitration) 
• The modern role of a permanent arbitral institution in international arbitration (exact wording to be confirmed depending on paper skeleton)

Lecturer Ekaterina Martynova

• ‘Collective Countermeasures’ and Their Legality in the Light of the Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts and the Positions of States after 2001
• Succession of States in Respect of State Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts
• Unilateral Coercive Measures in Modern International Law Doctrine and State Practice
• State Responsibility for Malicious Acts in Cyberspace: Issues of Attribution