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VII
PREFACE
Dear Readers,
You now have in your hands the sixth volume of the Czech Yearbook of Public &
Private International Law (CYIL), appearing, as usual, in October, the period of
harvest. This is good news not only for wine lovers but also for readers of this
Yearbook, interested in developments in international law.
The Czech Yearbook is a scholarly publication of the Czech Society of International
Law, acting in cooperation with the Czech Branch of the International Law
Association. The above institutions and the Editorial Board of the CYIL are proud
that, despite its rather complicated start in life, the Yearbook has not only survived
but is growing and maturing.
The sixth anniversary is a good occasion to announce some news. As you know,
the CSIL publishes the Yearbook both in printed and electronic versions (www.cyil.
eu). Since this year, the Czech Yearbook has been included, in addition to the Czech
index of scholarly peer-reviewed journals (RVVI), in the SCOPUS international
database. We are proud to announce this achievement, as we are the first Czech law
journal admitted to the SCOPUS. Next, beginning with its previous volume, the
Czech Yearbook is being published by the new international publishers, RW&W,
Science & New Media, Passau-Berlin-Praha, and distributed through the company
Südost Service GmbH abroad, mostly in Germany. The newly established partnership
should ensure a place for the Czech Yearbook in the catalogues and databases among
other international law journals and books.
However, rich and innovative content is and must be, in our opinion, as important
as form, if not even more important. From this point view, Volume 6 (2015) keeps
up the standards set in previous volumes. As usual, the variety of studies and articles
in this volume covers many issues of contemporary International and European law.
The innovation of this volume is in a new thematic section, Symposium on the
Crime of Aggression in the Rome Statute post-Kampala, including eight contributions
focused on both general and special issues related to the definition of the crime of
aggression. The editors would like to continue this model in coming years. The Czech
Yearbook aims at regularly presenting, along with various studies and articles, such
thematic symposia.
In addition to the Symposium, the volume includes,
inter alia
, articles on
a determination of
jus cogens
, the creation of States and the case of Crimea, the
right of victims to reparation from international organizations and civil liability for
nuclear damage.
For the third time, the CYIL also presents a section on EU law, including articles on the
free movement of persons and issues of human rights protection between Strasbourg and