CYIL 2014

JITKA HANKO CYIL 5 ȍ2014Ȏ part shows that international law neither permits nor prohibits unilateral secession outside the colonial context. The Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice did not contribute to any clarification of the international law of secession. This monograph offers the readers an extensive description of factual and legal matters with the opinions of experts of international law. The authors of the reviewed monograph draw their conclusion from the recent cases and issues of the creation of states and are inclined to believe that states emerge in a spontaneous way and their creation is not influenced by the international community but by the case that creation has an important impact on international relations. The reviewed publication is intended primarily for legal professionals working in the international law area in the Czech Republic. It can also serve as a textbook for teaching specialized courses of International Law and for teaching in the Ph.D. program in law faculties. For the readers it can be very interesting that part of the monograph includes for example: Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the UN (A/66/371, S/2011/592, 23.September 2011), Report of the Committee on the Admission of New Members concerning the application of Palestine for admission to membership in the UN, as well as Kosovo Declaration of Independence (17. 02. 2008) (Attachments).

Jitka Hanko*

* JUDr. Jitka Hanko, LL.M., M.E.S . completed her master studies at Law Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno in 1998. Since 2010 she has studied Ph.D. program at School of Law of Charles University in Prague.

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