INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSONALITY: A REVIEW OF RUSSIAN TEXTBOOKS

The purpose of this study is to analyse the Russian textbook literature on the problem of international legal personality. The author defines two approaches to the notion of the subject of international law: theoretical and specific. Under these two approaches, the concept of international legal personality and the range of participants in international legal relations are considered, and the discussion on the legal personality of individuals and corporate entities in international law is analysed. The author criticises the specific approach and proves that the position of proponents of the theoretical approach is more substantiated as regards today’s realities. Meanwhile, the non-traditional subjects of international law, except individuals, are still poorly represented in Russian textbooks on international law.