CYIL vol. 16 (2025)

Volume 16 (2025) of the Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International Law presents a variety of studies and articles covering many issues of contemporary interna tional and European law. The Yearbook begins with the studies that address issues related to the International Court of Justice, both the methods of work and the substance, namely the presentation of the recent Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change. Other studies relate to the history of international law, the case of Somaliland, and some issues of Citizenship Law in Slovakia. The readers will also find many other traditional sections here, including human rights law. This section includes, in addition to the article on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, articles dealing with the extraterritorial application of the European Convention on Human Rights during international armed conflict and a commentary on the ECtHR judgment in a climate mitiga tion case. In the section on International Law and European Law, the readers will find, inter alia, articles concerning competition law and sustainable product regulation. The content of the CYIL also responds to challenges to international law arising from new developments, in parti cular the artificial intelligence and its application in au tomated systems. The relevant articles form one section of the present volume. As in the previous years, the CYIL also presents a special section on international nuclear law that includes four very topical contributions providing legal analysis of new problems and technologies from the perspective of international and European law. The present issue also includes a section on AI and other new technologies in healthcare. According to its tradition, Volume 16 of the CYIL covers some aspects of international economic law and private international law, such as very salient questions of investment law (the concept of “legitimate expectations” or the sustainable meaning of the notion of investment), consumer protection, and the World Trade Organization, as well as some global and European aspects of commercial contracts. The Yearbook 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. The volume also includes book reviews and a survey of the Czech international law bibliography.

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