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Task 3. Read the text with the proper pronunciation of the words and intonation. Remember that your
reading time is not more than 3 minutes.

Task 4. Answer the following questions.
1. Give the definition of the international law.
2. What three distinct legal disciplines can the term "international law" refer to?
3. What relationships does public international law concern?
4. What conflicts does private international law govern?
5. What kind of agreements does supranational law concern at present?
6. What are the domains of international Law?
7. Name the main sources of international Law.
8. How do you understand the term customary international law/ conventional international law?
9. What principles can be applicable in the situations where one can’t apply neither conventional nor
customary international law?
10. What entities can be subjects to international regulation?

Task 5. Pick out from the text all the word combinations with the following words and give their
Ukrainian equivalents. international, customary, conventional, public, private

Task 6. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate preposition from the list below: between, of, to,
throughout, by, from.
1. Public international law concerns the relationships … the entities or legal persons
which are considered the subjects of international law.
2. Conventional international law derives … international agreements.
3. Individuals and non-state international organizations have become subject …
international regulation.
4. Customary law and conventional law are primary sources … international law.
5. Some rules of international law are recognized … international community as
peremptory, permitting no derogation.
6. International law is a body of laws, regulations, and accepted practices by which
different nations … the world interact with each other as well as with their own citizens and citizens
of other countries.

Task 7. Translate the following sentences.
1.International law is the term commonly used for referring to laws that govern the conduct of
independent nations in their relationships with one another.
2.Public international law includes the following specific legal field such as the treaty law, law of sea,
international criminal law and the international humanitarian law.
3.Sources of international Law are the materials and processes out of which the rules and principles
regulating the international community developed.
4.Norms of international law have their source in either 1) custom, or customary international law
(consistent provincial practice accompanied by opinio juris), 2) globally accepted standards of behaviour
(peremptory norms known as jus cogens or ius cogens), or 3) codifications contained in conventional
agreements, generally termed treaties.
5.Article 13 of the United Nations Charter obligates the UN General Assembly to initiate studies and
make recommendations which encourage the progressive development of international law and its
codification.
6.Evidence of consensus or state practice can sometimes be derived from intergovernmental
resolutions or academic and expert legal opinions (sometimes collectively termed soft law).

Task 8. Make the following sentences complete by translating the phrases in brackets.
1.International law can be defined as (систему правил) that nations recognize as binding upon one
another in their mutual relations.

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