Master degree program
International Law

International Law

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Legal Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

1.Critically assess the problems reflecting the current state of the international regulatory framework of the Republic of Kazakhstan to improve the work of state bodies, organizations protecting the interests of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the international arena.
2.To provide professional consulting and representative services to individuals and companies engaged in foreign economic activity.
3.To conduct a legal examination of draft regulatory legal acts regulating international economic relations, commercial contracts in order to determine their compliance with the principles of international law, the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
4.To use a foreign language at a high professional level for scientific activities; for conducting diplomatic negotiations; for protecting the interests of the country in international judicial, arbitration and other bodies.
5.Evaluate the internal mechanisms and regulatory framework of corporate governance, from the point of view of management psychology, labor law.
6.Analyze and evaluate the processes of international politics and economics in terms of their impact on the development of international markets, the development of an international legal framework that ensures international economic security and the interests of the state.
7.Analyze the political processes taking place in the international arena from the point of view of the possibility of resolving these problems through international law to ensure peace and security, respect for human rights and freedoms.
8.Formulate the tasks of scientific research in accordance with the chosen methodology using normative and bibliographic search, information computer technologies.
9.To carry out design for educational and research purposes in the form of preparation of a scientific article, report, analytical report on topical issues of international law.
10.To present the results and conclusions of scientific research in a reasoned manner using professional terminology, including in a foreign language
11.Develop plans and innovative methods of conducting various types of training sessions in the international legal field, including educational work.
12. Constantly develop your professional level, realizing the social significance of the profession of an international lawyer.

Program passport

Speciality Name
International Law
Speciality Code
7M04201
Faculty
International Relations

disciplines

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic systemic understanding of philosophy as a special form of cognition of the world, its main sections, problems and methods of their study in the context of future professional activity. The training course forms the theoretical and methodological basis of research work.

International Economic Law
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course develops the ability to competently interpret international legal acts regulating the economic activities of States; apply legal acts in the field of international trade and cross-border movement of capital; conduct legal expertise of international commercial projects in various sectors of the economy; the ability to conduct effective scientific research in the field of international economic law.

International Investment law
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline forms the skills of independent analysis of topical issues of the theory and practice of international investment activity, legal institutions regulating international investments, the status of investment entities, current judicial and arbitration practice. This will allow undergraduates to apply the norms of investment law in practice, have the skills to work with scientific literature, analytical and statistical materials.

International law and Islam
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline forms the ability to analyze and evaluate the processes of international legal regulation of relations with Islamic states. The discipline considers the following issues: determining the place of Muslim law in the modern world legal order, the peculiarities of Islam as a religious and legal system; legal aspects of international relations of Islamic states, humanitarian aspects of the Islamic world order.

Methodology of international legal analysis
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to acquire skills in the selection and use of appropriate methods and approaches in the research of undergraduates, as well as the formation of the ability to analyze various legal phenomena, creative thinking in search of acceptable solutions, participation in collective (group) work in the preparation of a legal position.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline to form the ability to apply practical skills in the organization and planning of scientific research. The discipline studies: forms and methods of planning, organization and design of scientific articles and dissertations; forms of summarizing the results of scientific research in presentations, speeches, projects, articles.

Pedagogy of Higher Education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to teach in universities and colleges based on knowledge of higher school didactics, theory of education and management of education, analysis and self-assessment of teaching activities. The training course is aimed at studying the trends in the development of education and the Bologna process. The course will help you master teaching and curatorial skills, various strategies and methods of teaching and education.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.

Theory of Private International Law
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course develops the ability to analyze the theories of modern private international law, to be able to use this knowledge in practical situations, to understand the specifics of the legal regulation of private law relations with a foreign element. The course forms the skills of comparative legal analysis of the civil legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and foreign states

Data for 2022-2025 years

disciplines

Actual problems of civil and arbitration proceedings
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to carry out a theoretical analysis of civil procedure and arbitration legislation and apply it in practice. The course forms a systematic understanding of the purpose, difference and main content of civil and arbitration proceedings; skills in drafting procedural documents. The discipline is aimed at studying the actual problems of civil procedure, arbitration legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, principles of civil procedure and arbitration proceedings.

Actual Problems of International Criminal Law
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline forms the skills of applying the norms of International Criminal law relating to topical issues of nternational criminal responsibility, legal assistance in international criminal cases.The discipline studies international crimes and crimes of an international nature, ways to improve national legislation in this area.

Actual problems of International Trade Law
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline forms the ability to interpret and apply international legal acts and norms of agreements in the field of international trade, forms the skills of concluding foreign trade transactions, dispute resolution, preparation of qualified legal opinions on the application of international trade law, as well as the skills of independent search for legal information on international trade law issues

Actual Problems of Law of International Security
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline forms the ability to analyze the content of international treaties on international security issues, evaluate modern theories and concepts of international security law. The discipline studies the activities of international organizations for the maintenance of international peace and security and develops skills in the interpretation and application of international security law

Information Law
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline forms the ability to apply the norms of international law and the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on information and information resources in future professional activities. The discipline studies issues of access to state and non-state information resources, features of the legal regime of information in public computer networks.

Integration Law
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline forms the skills of analyzing the processes of globalization and economic integration. The concept of integration as a legal phenomenon is studied, supranational legal regimes of different integration associations are compared. The course forms the skills of assessing the prospects for the development of regional integration processes, analyzing the prospects for the development of integration law.

Internation Custom Law
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course forms a systematic understanding of modern international customs relations and international conventions regulating them. The course develops the ability to apply the norms of international and Kazakh customs law, the skills of processing international customs documents, identifying customs offenses and bringing to justice for their commission.

International Court Bodies
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Discipline forms the ability to apply the norms of international and supranational law in the activities of international judicial institutions. The discipline studies international arbitration,international litigation, status, role and functioning of the International Court of Justice of the United Nations and other regional international judicial institutions in the odern period.

International Humanitarian Law Problems
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of undergraduates to work with documents regulating the order of conduct of participants in hostilities, to determine the degree of responsibility for violating this order, as well as to analyze the actions of the parties involved in the conflict.

International legal aspects of Human Rights Protection
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline forms the ability of Master students to identify problematic issues of human rights protection and independently look for ways to solve them. The course teaches to analyze the main provisions of international conventions on human rights; to form their critical point of view on the implementation of the norms of the conventions.

International Migration Law
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of undergraduates to analyze national and international legislation on migration issues and identify problematic issues of national law in this area. Also, to develop Master students' skills in working with the regulatory framework, in drafting documents, in giving qualified legal opinions and consultations on migration issues.

Issues of Territories and Boundaries in International Law
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline forms the ability to analyze international legal norms regulating the regime of territories and state borders. The discipline studies the bilateral agreements of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the issue of determining the status of the state borders of Kazakhstan, develops skills in assessing the causes of territorial disputes, and also studies the mechanisms for resolving interstate disputes on the issues of territories.

Data for 2022-2025 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2022-2025 years