REVUE : Czech Yearbook of Public & Private International Law (vol. 7, 2016)

David ROY

The latest volume of the Czech Yearbook of Public & Private International Law (vol. 7, 2016) is out.




I. STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ORGANIZATIONS

Ernest Petrič, Principles of the Charter of the United Nations: Jus Cogens?
Čestmír Čepelka, Problem with the Inclusion of Aggression into the Rome Statute of the ICC
Jan Ondřej, Magda Uxová, Islamic State, an Actor Threatening Peace in the Middle East
Josef Mrázek, Some Critical Reflections on the Extended Use of Military Force in the Contemporary World
Zuzana Trávníčková, Are Unilateral (Economic) Sanctions Really Impermissible under International Law?
Jakub Handrlica, International Administrative Law and Administrative Acts: Transterritorial Decision Making Revisited

II. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND EUROPEAN LAW

Dalibor Jílek, Jana Michaličková, The Conceptual Role of Habitual Residence
Solange Maslowski, The Scope and the Future of Equality of Treatment for Economically Inactive Union Citizens on the Move
Václav Šmejkal, Saving EU and its Welfare States Through Disincentives to Migration? On a Recent CJEU Case-Law Limiting the Access of EU Migrants to Social Assistance

III. HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

Veronika Bílková, Towards a New Convention for the Protection of the Human Rights of Older Persons?
Pavel Bureš, Consensus on Human Nature? The Concept of European Consensus in the Case-Law of the Court in Strasbourg
Harald Christian Scheu, The Status of New Minorities in the Light of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
Tuomas Heikkinen, Martin Faix, The Use of Human Shields and the Principle of Proportionality under Law of Armed Conflict
Petra Ditrichová-Ochmannová, International Law and the Use of Armed Drones: Where is the Controversy?
Milan Lipovský, The Digital Aspects of the Right to Privacy – Surveillance Issues
Monika Forejová, Right to a Fair Trial in Asylum Procedures

IV. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW

Petr Válek, The Czech Contribution to the Work of the United Nations War Crimes Commission: the Auschwitz and Birkenau Case
Pavel Caban, Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction – Exceptions to Immunity ratione materiae
Jan Lhotský, The ICC Arrest Warrant for the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in Connection with his Visit to the Republic of South Africa
Ondřej Svaček, Applicable Law, Interpretation, Inherent and Implied Powers – Brief Rendezvous with the ICC

V. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND LAW OF THE SEA

Birutė Pranevičienė, Violeta Vasiliauskienė, Do the Europeans have the Right to get Information about Ostrovets Nuclear Power Plant in Belarus?
Soma Hegdekatte, The Bay of Bengal Maritime Arbitration: a New Ray of Hope

VI. VIEWS ON INVESTMENT AND TRADE LAW

Katarína Chovancová, Non- Precluded Measures in International Investments Arbitration
Ondřej Svoboda, Jan Kunstýř, Third Party to Pick up the Bill? Cost Issues Relating to Third Party Funding in Investment Arbitration
Vojtěch Trapl, About Recent Development in a Further Aim to Reform the Investor-State Arbitration by the Introduction of a Permanent Investment Tribunal and an Appeal Mechanism – focused on the work done by CIDS under auspices of the UNCITRAL

VII. CZECH PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Pavel Šturma, The International Law Commision at the End of Quinquennium: an Exceptional Session and Positive Results
Vít Alexander Schorm, The Czech Republic before the European Court of Human Rights in 2015
Milan Beránek, International Treaties ratified by the Czech Republic

VIII. SHORTER ARTICLES AND NOTES

Miloš Olík, Case Notes, Court of Justice of the European Union to Rule on The Compatibility of intra-EU BITs with EU Law in the Case Achmea B.V. vs. The Slovak Republic
Milan Lipovský, Moot Courts on Issues of International Law in 2015/2016

IX. BOOK REVIEWS

Irena Marková, Non-governmental Organizations under the European Convention on Human Rights. Exceptional Legal Standing (A. Tymofeyeva)
Andrea Baršová, Legal Regulations for and practices of the use of minority languages. Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Iuridica 4/2015, Vol. LXI (H. Ch. Scheu, R. Petráš eds.)
Martin Kopa, International Human Rights Obligations of Post-Communist Countries: the Cases of the Czech Republic and Slovakia (I. Pospíšil, V. Týč et. al.)

X. SURVEY OF CZECH INTERNATIONAL LAW BIBLIOGRAPHY

Zuzana Trávníčková