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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Charles University in Prague. Without the financial and institutional support of the Rectorate and the Faculty of Law, in particular, in the frames of the project ‘New trends of responsibility and dispute resolution in international law (influence of non-governmental subjects)’, this book would never have been written. My post-doctorate studies at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague provided me with an amazing opportunity to be in contact with the best researchers in the area of Public International Law in the Czech Republic. My sincere gratefulness goes to my supervisor, prof. JUDr. Pavel Šturma, DrSc. I am very grateful to my colleagues at the Department of International Law of the Law Faculty, first of all, to doc. PhDr. Stanislava Hýbnerová, CSc., who providedme not only with professional advices, but also with a great amount of emotional support. I am also thankful to doc. JUDr. PhDr. Veronika Bílková, E.MA., Ph.D., doc. JUDr. Vladimír Balaš, CSc., doc. JUDr. Jan Ondřej, CSc., DSc., JUDr. Věra Honusková, Ph.D., JUDr. Martin Faix, Ph.D. and all the others for their valuable advices and good atmosphere in the course of my work. I would like to direct my deepest thanks to the reviewers, prof. JUDr. Mahulena Hofmannová, CSc. and JUDr. Eva Hubálková, Ph.D., for taking the time to read and comment on my paper. Many thanks go to lawyers of the European Court of Human Rights, especially to Olga Dmytrenko, Oleksandr Ovchynnykov, TimKolk, Nikita Kolomiets and Ekaterina Malareva. Visits to the libraries of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Squire Law Library in Cambridge helped me to collect many essential sources. I would like to thank the staff of these libraries for their readiness to help and precious assistance. In addition, I am very thankful to Professor David Feldman for his questions and ideas that made me think about the book from a different perspective. Special thanks go tomy family and friends for a great deal of practical, demonstrative assistance and understanding. Without you this book would never appear as it is.

Prague, 1 August 2015 Alla Tymofeyeva

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