CYIL vol. 11 (2020)

CYIL 11 (2020) ANALYSING THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS MESSIAH and on the other, the chapters offer a thorough overview and analysis of key judicial decisions that have shaped and will shape developments in this area. Further chapters deal with shifts in the understanding of certain institutes and the need of strengthened protection, especially in connection with migration (chapter 9 titled Right to Respect for Family Life and the principle of respect for the best interests of the child in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the EU Court of Justice in relation to the Islamic Law Institute “Kafala” by Tomáš Jirsa; and chapter 10, The absolute nature of the principle of non-refoulement under Article 19(2) of the EU Charter by Harald Christian Scheu), anti- discrimination law (chapter 11, The concept of gender equality and principle of equal pay from the perspective of the EU Charter by Sabina Krajíčková) or consumer protection (chapter 12, Consumer protection and the EU Charter by Eliška Piklová). All these parts are based on a thorough analysis of the enforcement of the selected issues in practice – especially in the case law of the CJEU – which gives them a significant informative and statistical value as future points of reference in similar cases. 4. Conclusion – the book which is worth to be read I have to state repeatedly that the book as a whole has added value both in its general and in its special part, and in several layers. It transfers European discourse to the Czech environment, opens less discussed issues and deals with modern and dynamic topics. This is a successful work, which is unique in the Czech legal literature. The book – despite the co-authorship of a larger team of collaborators – is internally consistent and the individual groups of topics that follow each other appropriately and complement each other. The text is an enrichment of scholarly discourse and has the potential to encourage further research and debate on selected topics. At the same time, the volume shall have a significant relevance even for application in practice, especially in the included analysis of case law, the interpretation of problematic points, and the explanation of application nuances at the national level.

Ondrej Hamuľák **

** JUDr. Ondrej Hamuľák, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic), Adjunct Professor in EU Strategic Legal Aff airs, TelTech Law School (Estonia) and researcher at the Faculty of Law, Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia). This review was prepared on behalf of project no. 17-22322S “The Influence of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU on the Constitutional Law of the Visegrad Group Countries” funded by the Czech Science Foundations (GAČR). Email: ondrej.hamulak@upol.cz.

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