CYIL vol. 15 (2024)

international trade and jurisdiction of Vietnamese courts in international commercial contracts. The Yearbook also covers the Czech practice of international law, in particular, a list of treaties ratified by the Czech Republic, reports on the recent works of the International Law Commission and activities of the Sixth (legal) committee of the UN General Assembly, and Czech cases before the European Court of Human Rights. It also includes book reviews, and a survey of the Czech international law bibliography. As usual, the authors of this publication, who are from academia and legal practice, come from both Czech and foreign institutions. This volume includes several contributions from foreign professors and researchers, coming from or working in Austria, France, Iran, Island, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam. As to the Czech institutions involved, these include Charles University in Prague, Institute of Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the University of Economics in Prague, the University of New York in Prague, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, as well as some private law firms. This publication appears thanks to a continuing financial subsidy to the Czech Society of International Law from the Council of Scientific Societies of the Czech Republic. We are also grateful for the generous financial support from the law firm Skils (Prague). We also wish that this volume of the Czech Yearbook will find many readers and we are already looking forward to new authors and new contributions for our next volume in 2025. We are also grateful for any comments or suggestions on how to improve the quality of this journal.

Prof. Pavel Šturma Editor-in-Chief

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