CYIL vol. 13 (2022)

MICHAELA SÝKOROVÁ CYIL 13 ȍ2022Ȏ familiar with the Convention’s elements as well as with the proceedings before the Court. This is particularly visible in the second Chapter, where Pavel Šturma analyses profoundly a relatively complicated theoretical issue – relationship between jurisdiction and the rules of attribution, making thus a cross-cut to the law of State responsibility. He examines the attribution of a particular conduct to a responsible State within the judicial practice of the Court, and further elaborates on the concept of due diligence, arriving at the conclusion that principles of State responsibility have certain relevance to the application of the Convention. The third and fourth Chapter are devoted to particular substantive rights under the Convention: the right to privacy and rights of migrants, respectively. Ganna Yudkivska , one of the Court’s judges, brings a closer look at the application of the Convention in the digital age of mass surveillance and data protection, which has produced some new-borns such as right to reputation and the “right to be forgotten”. Discussing the relevant case-law, she finally points to the timelessness of the Convention in respect of the right to privacy, which applies also online. The fourth Chapter by Josef Mrázek addresses no less interesting issue, another topical challenge of an ongoing migration crisis in Europe. He discusses the notions of family life, private life, and describes the Court’s decisions in respect of the right to family reunification. Both Chapters provide a valuable assessment of the substantive rights protected under the Convention. As a very readable part of the book, one could regret that the same attention has not been given also to other rights under the Convention, whose interpretation and application pose certain level of controversy. Next part of the monograph focuses on business and corporate entities within the operation of the Convention. The co-authors of the fifth Chapter, an academic Harald Christian Scheu and a practitioner Jitka Brodská , explore corporate human rights violations, counting them among some of the major human rights problems. Examining the relationship between the Convention and the UN Guiding Principles on Human and Business Rights, the authors identify the potential of Article 13 of the Convention as one of effective legal remedies for human rights violations committed by Europe-based business entities abroad. Responsibilities of corporations are similarly discussed in the sixth Chapter, written by Monika Feigerlová , albeit in a different – no less interesting – context of climate change. Whether and how the effects of the climate change, accelerated by big oil companies’ conduct, could violate human rights, and whether such a question may come also before the European Court, is assessed in the context of the ruling given by the Philippines Commission on Human Rights in 2019. The business and corporations’ part of the book concludes by the seventh Chapter, where scholars Alla Tymofeyeva and Pavel Ondřejek analyse the standing of State-owned companies before the European Court, reflecting on the relevant case-law of Czech courts. The fourth part of the monograph, encompassing Chapters 8, 9, 10 and 11, focuses on the European Court on Human Rights. Despite its title, only two Chapters expressly address the interaction between the Court and other Council of Europe bodies, namely the Venice Commission and CAHDI. Chapter 8, written by Petr Válek , former Chair of the CAHDI, valuably elaborates on the advisory role and activities of the Committee that prepares legal opinions on topics of interpretation of the Convention; and Chapter 11, written by Natalie Illková , analyses the interconnection between the Venice Commission and the Court, including by focusing on the concept of amicus curiae briefs. Nikola Kurková Klímová then deals, in Chapter 10, with concurrent proceedings of arbitral tribunals. Likewise comparative, but still noteworthy, is Chapter 9, written by Ivana Machoňová Schellongová : here, the

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