CYIL vol. 16 (2025)

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 mitigation 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 particular the artificial intelligence and its application in automate 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 also 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 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, Hungary, India, Island, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Somaliland, Sri Lanka, and Ukraine. As to the Czech institutions involved, these include Charles University in Prague, external collaborator of the West-Bohemian University in Pilsen, the 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 wish that this volume of the Czech Yearbook will find many readers and we are already looking forward to new contributions for our next volume in 2026. 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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