Thursday, April 19, 2018

New Volume: Czech Yearbook of Public & Private International Law

The latest volume of the Czech Yearbook of Public & Private International Law (Vol. 8, 2017) is out. Contents include:
  • Symposium: Law of International Responsibility
    • Pavel Šturma, Introduction to Section “Symposium: Law of International Responsibility”
    • Josef Mrázek. Peremptory Norms of International Law and Invocation of International Responsibility
    • Karolina Wierczyńska, Responsibility of State and Responsibility of Individual – Old Problems and New Challenges for International Law
    • Tomáš Fecák, Responsibility for Violations of Investors’ Rights under New EU Investment Agreements
    • Adam Giertl, International Responsibility in the Context of Disaster Response
  • Studies in International Law and Organizations
    • Dalibor Jílek & Jana Michaličková, Personal Staus of Refugees: The Original International Solution
    • Pavel Caban, Failure to React as Evidence of opinio iuris (a Comment to the ILC’s First Draft Conclusions on Identification of Customary International Law)
    • Zuzana Trávníčková, Legal Status of Unilateral Coercive Measures under Customary International Law
    • Birutė Pranevičienė & Violeta Vasiliauskienė, Irregular Migration through South Mediterranean Route: Actions by Coast Guard Vessels and NGO Vessels
    • Sandra Brožová, The Importance of Customary Law for the Codification of the Law of Treaties
    • Milan Lipovský, Existence of a Dispute in Front of the ICJ
  • International Law and European Law
    • Ondrej Hamuľák & Ján Mazák, The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union vis-à-vis the Member States – Scope of its Application in the View of the CJEU
    • Harald Christian Scheu, Migrant Integration as a New EU Agenda
    • Václav Šmejkal, Ten Years after the Viking Judgment: EU Court of Justice still in Search of Balance between Market Freedoms and Social Rights
    • Monika Forejtová, Legal Status of the Notarial Profession as a Specific Profession in Europe – the Example of the Czech Republic and Hungary
    • Michal Petr, Twice about ne bis in idem: Conflicting Approach of European Courts to the Same Principle
    • Radka MacGregor Pelikánová & Marek Beneš, Does the Full Harmonization of the Consumers’ Protection against Unfair Commercial Practices via UCPD fit in Europe 2020?
  • Use of Force and So-Called Islamic State
    • Veronika Bílková, The Use of Force against the Islamic State (Jus ad Bellum Aspects)
    • Tamás Lattmann, Questions of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law in the Case of a Foreign Military Intervention against the Islamic State
    • Jelena Dinic, Money Laudering as a Form of Financing Terrorism through the Prism of Terrorist Organization “Islamic State of Iraq and Levant”
  • Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law
    • Alla Tymofeyeva, Indirect Obligations of Business Entities under the European Convention on Human Rights
    • Tomáš Bruner, African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Twenty Years from Addis Ababa Protocol
    • Martin Faix & Tuomass Heikkinen, States´ Obligations under Common Article 1 of the Geneva Conventions in the Context of Multinational Military Operations
  • International Criminal Law
    • Čestmír Čepelka, The Concept of Crimes against Humanity
    • Ondřej Sváček, Brothers and Sisters in Arms as Victims of War Crimes: Ntaganda Case before the ICC
  • Environmental Protection and Law of the Sea
    • Ernest Petrič, “Junction Area“ – a New Legal Regime Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) Case No. 2012-04 (Slovenia v. Croatia)
    • Jan Ondřej, The Issues of Sovereignty and Ownership in Respect to the Sea-bed and Ocean Floor and its Resources (Including Exploration and Exploitation of Resources from the Sea-bed Beyond the Boundaries of the National Jurisdiction of States)
    • Jakub Handrlica, The Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage and Radioactive Waste Management: Problems Revisited
  • Health Law, Ethics, and Human Rights
    • Petr Šustek, Restrictions of Personal Freedom in the Context of Psychiatric Care in the Czech Republic
    • Martin Šolc, Reflections of Ethical Debate in the International Law Regulation of Stem Cell Research
    • Tomáš Holčapek, Doctrine of Loss of Chance in Medical Malpractice Cases: Comparative, International and Transnational Aspects
  • Views on Investment and Trade Law
    • Katarína Chovancová, Countermeasures and their (In)Comparable Congruence in International Investment Arbitration & the WTO Law
    • Elisa Baroncini, From Turkey – Textiles to Peru – Additional Duty: Th e Contribution of the WTO Case-Law on the Relation between the Marrakesh System and Regional Trade Agreements
    • Kristýna Urbanová, WTO in Context of Brexit
    • Ondřej Svoboda, No Reason to Party: United Kingdom as Party to EU Free Trade Agreements after Brexit
    • Zdeněk Nový, Lis Pendens between International Investment Tribunals and National Courts
    • Petr Stejskal, War: Foreign Investments in Danger Can International Humanitarian Law or Full Protection and Security Clause Always Save it?
  • Czech Practice of International Law
    • Pavel Šturma, The Work of the International Law Commission at the beginning of the New Term: Crimes against Humanity and Other Topics
    • Petr Válek, The International Law Aspects of the New Czech Act on Foreign Service
    • Václav Stehlík, Application of CILFIT Criteria by Czech Supreme Courts
    • Vít Alexander Schorm, The Czech Republic before the European Court of Human Rights in 2016
    • Milan Beránek, List of Ratified International Treaties which Entered into Force for the Czech Republic from 1st January 2016 till 31st December 2016
    • Ondřej Svoboda, Tomáš Kozárek, & Alex Ivančo, The Czech Republic’s Push for Innovative Agenda in the UNIDROIT and the UNCITRAL
  • Shorter Articles and Notes
    • Milan Lipovský, Moot Courts on Issues of Public International Law in the Year 2016/2017
    • Pavel Šturma, Avec un brin de nostalgie: On the Occasion of the 90th Birthday of Professor Čestmír Čepelka