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For the second time the CYIL also presents a section on EU law. An important
number of articles deals with international human rights law, in particular from the
perspective of the European system. Some contributions concern various issues of
international criminal law and criminal justice, as well as international humanitarian
law, including private military contractors, paramilitaries and mercenaries in the
Ukrainian conflict. In accord with its tradition, the CYIL Volume 5 also covers certain
aspects of international economic law (investment law) and private international law,
such as decisions on State immunity by Czech courts. Moreover, the publication
presents, as usual, topical information on the work of the UN International Law
Commission in 2014, the list of treaties ratified by the Czech Republic, short notes,
book reviews and a survey of Czech international law bibliography.
Also as usual, the authors of this publication come both from Czech and foreign
institutions, from academia and legal practice. More so than in previous years this
volume includes contributions of foreign professors and researchers, coming from or
teaching in Belgium, Luxemburg, Moldova, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland,
Ukraine and the USA. As to the Czech institutions involved, these include Charles
University in Prague, Masaryk University in Brno, Palacky University in Olomouc,
West-Bohemian University in Plzeň, the Institute of Law of the Czech Academy of
Sciences, the University of Economics in Prague, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
its Institute of International Relations, as well as some private law firms. Keeping
the Yearbook as open as possible, we try to establish and maintain the Prague-based
platform for dialogue of scholars and practitioners of international law.
This publication appears thanks to the financial subsidy to the Czech Society of
International Law from the Council of Scientific Societies of the Czech Republic.
We are also grateful for generous financial support from the Prague branch of the law
firm Weil, Gotshal and Manges.
We wish that this volume of the Czech Yearbook also find many readers, and we
are looking forward to new authors and new contributions for the next volume.
Prof. Pavel Šturma
Editor-in-Chief