CYIL vol. 8 (2017)

CYIL 8 ȍ2017Ȏ INTRODUCTION TO SECTION “SYMPOSIUM: LAW OF INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY” INTRODUCTION TO SECTION “SYMPOSIUM: LAW OF INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY” On September 29, 2016, a conference called Topical issues of international responsibility was organized under the auspices of the Institute of Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., on the occasion of the visit of some researchers from the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. The conference took place within the conference premises of the Institute of Law in Prague and hosted seven speakers, of whom each presented a very interesting topic. The group of speakers included legal academics from both the Czech and Polish Institutes of Law, the Charles University Faculty of Law, students of the PhD. program in international law, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia, as well as other academics and legal professionals interested in international law. Due to the different nationalities of the speakers, the contributions were presented and the following discussions took place in English. The organizers of the conference and editors of the CYIL wish to thank all the speakers for their contributions and the interesting discussion that followed them and showed that the international responsibility of States contains many problematic aspects that are not going to be easy to solve. Since there are not many publications written on this topic, the editors of the Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International Law (a law journal of the Czech Society of International Law) proposed to publish all the submitted contributions in volume 8 of this journal. This whole section of the Yearbook entails those contributions that were presented at the abovementioned conference and some other contributions submitted to CYIL that were accepted, after a peer review procedure, for publication. It includes four articles, because not all conference papers were submitted in due time or accepted by a peer review. Some of the conference papers, in particular that on State succession in respect of international responsibility, were published elsewhere and therefore not included in this volume of CYIL.

Prof. Dr. Pavel Šturma

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