CYIL vol. 14 (2023)

CYIL 14 (2023)

SURVEY OF CZECH INTERNATIONAL LAW BIBLIOGRAPHY

SURVEY OF CZECH INTERNATIONAL LAW BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Survey covers Czech books, articles, chapters, and published conference proceedings on international law and also texts of Czech authors published abroad, that were published during 2022 and the first half of 2023. It also includes selected texts focused on private international law, European Law, and the Czech constitutional law, that reflect international law aspects. New monographs and textbooks are being published in the Czech Republic thanks to public universities, their specialized institutes and the Czech Society of International Law. International law topics also appear regularly in the journal Právník [Lawyer] (founded in 1861), published by the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The most prestigious publishing opportunity for local authors is provided by the present yearbook – Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International Law , published by the Czech Society of International Law since 2010. And although they are not included in this overview in their full breadth, the Czech international law scene is also represented by more concise contributions on current events published mainly by the Centre for International Law at the Institute of International Relations and the Human Rights Research Centre at the Charles University. This year’s survey clearly confirms the trend of the past years - an increasing number of publications by Czech authors in foreign languages and abroad. In the 2022 survey, publications written in English clearly outnumber those written in Czech. Thematically, the Czech authors’ work in 2022 and the first half of 2023 focuses mainly on three areas: first, there is a review of the impact of the covid 19 pandemic on international relations, international law, and human rights. Second, the survey includes a very strong presence of the conflict in Ukraine, where new issues and problems are constantly emerging for discussion in practice and in the literature, including, for example, the topic of European restrictive measures. The third area of interest, and in this case, it is a permanent and long term interest of the Czech scientific and academic community, are the international legal issues surrounding individuals. Whether in the field of human rights protection, refugees, migration, or individual criminal responsibility, Czech international law scholarship has remained faithful to and dedicated itself to these issues. Translations in brackets were not authorized; in some cases, they were taken over from databases of publishing activities maintained by universities and research institutions in the Czech Republic. In some cases, the artificial intelligence (www.deepl.com/translate) was used to propose the translation of the Czech or Slovak title into English.

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