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political and social rights. Persons who have full political and personal rights are then “citizens”. This essay also deals shortly with internal “nationality laws”. The notion “citizenship” is also used in different meanings at international level: “international citizenship”, “citizenship of the European Union”. Mgr. Anna Červeňáková in her paper deals with the right to citizenship from the point of view of international conventions reflecting human rights standards. The aim of this chapter is to focus on the high number of persons who find themselves in a situation without any citizenship, especially with regard to addressing this issue from the perspective of the United Nations. The issue of the acquisition of citizenship is also reflected by the use of selected international and national case law from different countries. The second part titled Nationality and National Law of this monograph relates to the issue of nationality in national law. Chapter 4 by Dr. Jiří Hřebejk focuses on the subject of dual citizenship and state security. The author strongly opposes the idea of dual nationality, in particular, in view of the interests of national security. Dr. Helena Krejčíková in her chapter deals with the right to the so-called free healthcare (healthcare without a direct contribution of a patient respectively) depending on the fact of whether the patient is a citizen. According to the Article 31 of the Bill of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, based on public healthcare insurance, the right to free healthcare is guaranteed to Czech citizens under statutory conditions. She insists that such wording is partially misleading. In fact, Article 31 does not guarantee a stricto sensu free healthcare, and the access to healthcare based on participation in the public healthcare insurance system is not limited only to Czech citizens. The following chapter by Prof. Květoslav Růžička is devoted to the meaning of the nationality of an arbitrator. In foreign regulations, the nationality of an arbitrator does not play any role, so the arbitrator may be a foreigner. In the Czech law in the arbitration proceedings, a foreigner may perform the function of an arbitrator in property disputes with an international element (international commercial arbitration) and also in consumer disputes (if the arbitration agreement was concluded before 30 November 2016). In disputes between Czech subjects (the so-called “purely domestic” disputes) a foreigner cannot act as an arbitrator. This anomaly should be legislatively abolished with the next amendment to Act No. 216/1994 Coll., On Arbitration and the Execution of Arbitral Awards. Dr. Miluše Kindlová and Dr. Věra Honusková in Chapter 7 explore the problem of the deprivation of citizenship for disloyalty, and study alternative possibilities on how states have to tackle this problem. Their focus is on the European legal space, regulated, inter alia , by the European Convention on Nationality (ECN) which stipulates cases of permissible deprivation in its Art. 7. A comparative study shows how selected European states approach the deprivation of citizenship for reasons which may fall within the ECN’s wording “voluntary service in a foreign military force” and

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