CYIL 2010

PAVEL ŠTURMA CYIL 1 ȍ2010Ȏ views in that time has been demonstrated on three key issues discussed during the examined period: international customary law, principles of international law and so-called socialist international law. The analysis led to the interesting conclusion that the country’s political or ideological orientation tended to have little influence on the theoretical disputes. On the contrary, under the official socialist label, the theoretical debate revealed the profound differences between the positivist (consensualist) and anti-positivist currents in the Czech internationalist doctrine. Despite three brutal interruptions to its development during the last century (in 1939, 1948 and 1968), when many eminent scholars were forced to abandon their academic careers and sometimes even had to leave their country, Czech scholarship was not only able to survive but managed to maintain contact with the development of the doctrine of international law at least within the framework of Central Europe.

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