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Right to education in European documents
Pehrová, Klára ; Tymofeyeva, Alla (advisor) ; Honusková, Věra (referee)
Right to education in European documents Key words Education, right to education, European documents, Court of Justice of the European Union, European Court of Human Rights, Human Rights Abstract The right to education is a fundamental human right that has been enshrined in numerous international legal documents. This thesis deals with the enshrinement of the right to education in European documents and in the complex of human rights since its enactment. The aim of the thesis is the analysis of the right to education in the European context while its main focus is to provide a characterization, analysis and comparison of the codification of the right to education in Euroepean documents. Firstly the thesis presents the enshrinment of the right to education in the European convention on human Rights as amended by the Additional Protocols which served as important source for the creation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Secondly the thesis presents the enshrinment of the right to education in the Charter of Fundamental rights of the European Union which is one of the youngest and most comprehensive catalogues of the human rights in the world. The thesis contains key case law from the European Court Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Thrirdly in the...
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CJEU as a Political Actor in the Termination of intra-EU BITs: Judicial Activism in Achmea Ruling
Juráš, Jan ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
The topic of the role and function of the Court of Justice of the European Union has been the subject of academic debate for quite some time. In recent years, a number of new studies have begun to examine judicial activism, also known as the process of judicialization of EU policy. It is a process by which the Court of Justice not only interprets the law, but directly creates it, thus becoming a full-fledged actor in the legislative and institutional framework of the EU. The work combines the topic of judicial activism with the issue of international investment protection in the EU, in which the Court of Justice of the EU has become a key actor by delivering the termination of intra-EU bilateral investment treaties between EU member states. In its judgment in the Achmea case, the Court of Justice ruled that these treaties are incompatible with the EU law system as investment arbitrations initiated on the basis of these treaties may undermine the autonomous position of the Court of Justice as the only institution that has a competency to interpret EU laws. The thesis also deals with the scale of the judicial activism in the Achmea ruling. Position of the other actors of the EU institutional framework is also presented. The work thus represents an interdisciplinary approach to the research of...
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The principle of ensuring effective judicial protection by Member States in the context of current case law of the CJEU
Kaluha, Štěpán ; Navrátil, Petr (advisor) ; Svobodová, Magdaléna (referee)
The Principle of Ensuring Effective Judicial Protection by Member States in the Context of the Current Case Law of the CJEU Abstract in English This diploma thesis named The Principle of Ensuring Effective Judicial Protection by Member States in the Context of the Current Case Law of the CJEU, deals with the manifestations of this principle in the case law of the Court of Justice, especially with regard to its horizontal dimension which is related to the ongoing judicial reforms in Poland. The objectives of the thesis are to analyse and evaluate the principle of ensuring effective judicial protection, to compare it with the principle of national procedural autonomy and, through the analysis of three recent decisions of the Court of Justice, to identify a new direction in the case law of the Court of Justice after the ASJP decision. The thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. In the theoretical part, I place the principle of ensuring effective judicial protection by Member States in the broader context of EU law as a general principle of EU law and thus part of primary law. Then I discuss the principle in detail, in particular exploring its definition in the Treaties and in the case law of the Court of Justice, analysing its content and briefly discussing the consequences of its breach...
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The preliminary ruling
Chudoba, Stanislav ; Sedláček, Miroslav (advisor) ; Smolík, Petr (referee)
The preliminary ruling The subjects of thesis research are preliminary rulings considering the Czech civil proceedings and preliminary rulings submitted to the Court of Justice of the European Union. The thesis is designed to analyze legal changes made to the preliminary rulings with emphasis on the case-law. The introductory historical part of this thesis describes the then Roman law institute called praeiudicium, in which the beginnings of the development of the current form of the preliminary rulings can be observed. Later on, the attention of the thesis is shifted towards preliminary rulings in the legal order of the Czech Republic. After the opening determination of the term, the following chapters begin to focus on the nuances of the terminology of this procedural institute, position of the preliminary ruling in the judgment or explaining the differences between material and procedural preliminary rulings. The main chapter is centered around the boundness of the court by existing decisions regarding the specific question. This part is followed up by the explanatory breakdown of the law in force. The next chapters of the thesis discuss the assessment of the preliminary rulings that have not been ruled yet. The chapters also examine facultative and obligatory suspension of the proceeding...
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The Court of Justice of the European Union: the engine of integration?
Veselý, Petr ; Plechanovová, Běla (advisor) ; Parízek, Michal (referee)
This thesis deals with the topic of influence of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the process of European integration. For this purpose, the thesis asks the following question: "How has the Court of Justice of the European Union in selected cases contributed to the strengthening of European integration?" After an overview of the methodological basis, the thesis thoroughly examines the main theoretical approaches and authors that focused on the topic of Court of Justice and its influence on European integration: neofunctionalism, intergovernmentalism, neorationalism, supranationalism and legalistic approach. In the third part, five landmark cases of the ECJ have been chosen for detailed analysis: Van Gend en Loos, Costa vs. E.N.E.L., Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, Les Verts and Francovich. The thesis not only maps the political situation surrounding their announcement, but also the aftermath, consequences and reactions of member states to the judgements. In its last part, the thesis attempts to connect the theoretical approaches with the findings of the aforementioned analysis of landmark decisions. The thesis concludes that the Court of Justice in fact did contribute to the strengthening of European integration, namely by establishing the principles of direct effect, superiority...
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Case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the area of environmental protection
Kubeček, Jan ; Žákovská, Karolina (advisor) ; Sobotka, Michal (referee)
Resumé The thesis named Case Law of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Area of Environmental Protection deals with three types of action in which the judicial protection of the environmental interests is provided. First the chambers of the Court of Justice of the EU are characterised - the Court of Justice, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal. Chapters on particular types of action follow. Each of them is attached with analysed related significant cases that the Court of Justice of the EU adjudicated upon. The first type of action is the action for failure to fulfil obligations where the principal questions are possibilities of imposing fines on member states that infringe the EU law. Sanctions are imposed in two forms - a penalty or a lump sum. The second type of action is the reference for a preliminary ruling in which the Court of Justice of the EU interprets the EU law a helps courts of the member states apply the EU law. The final chapter examines the action for annulment in which the fundamental and very disputable question is the question of right of action in environmental matters. After the comparison with other areas of the EU law, in particular the area of the competition law, it results from the thesis's chapters that the Court of Justice of the EU provides a very...
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Reasoning in the judgements of European courts
Vilímková, Veronika ; Tomášek, Michal (advisor) ; Kühn, Zdeněk (referee)
This thesis concerns the topic of legal reasoning in the judgements of European courts. The first part of the paper presents the analysis of the theoretical aspects of legal reasoning, specifically the legal obligation for this practice, as well as an examination of the origins and arguments for the existence of this obligation. Furthermore, the way that the legal reasonings are embedded in the law of the Czech Republic, and in EU legislation, is discussed and examined in detail. The final part of the paper consists of a comparison of legal reasonings of the Czech courts and the European Court of Justice. The relevant aspects of the legal reasoning are explained with regard to the practice of two European courts: European Court of Justice and Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic, respectively.
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Locus standi of non-privileged applicants to bring an action for annulment
Moravcová, Eva ; Svoboda, Pavel (advisor) ; Král, Richard (referee)
Locus standi of non-privileged applicants to bring an action for annulment Abstract Every developed legal system is bound to have a mechanism for checking the procedural and substantive legality of measures adopted by its institutions. In the European Union it was of significant importance to create a system of control over the acts of the EU institutions given the democratic deficit within the Union and the limited supervisory role of the European Parliament. Binding acts of the EU institutions are subject to review through a number of routes provided by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and the Treaty on the European Union (TEU), namely action for annulment (Art. 263 TFEU), the plea of illegality (Art. 277 TFEU), the preliminary reference (Art. 267 TFEU) and the action for damages (Arts. 268 and 340 TFEU). The Court has consistently endeavoured to treat the several strands as a complex and coherent system of judicial review within the Union based on the rule of law. The action for annulment under Art. 263 TFEU plays a crucial role for individuals as it is in practice the only direct way open to individuals to challenge the acts of EU institutions. The main purpose of my thesis is to examine whether the current wording of Art. 263(4) TFEU provides for individuals a sufficiently...
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The accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights
Del Maschio, Kristýna ; Hofmannová, Mahulena (advisor) ; Balaš, Vladimír (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to describe the fundamental issues related to the future accession of the European Union to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and to provide an overall understanding of the issue. To fulfil this objective, the first part of the thesis deals with the current situation in the european human rights protection system. It introduces the protection system of the Council of Europe as well as the system of protection provided by the European Union. This part aims to describe relationships between them and also gives the overview of the development of the question of accession and of the main features defining the autonomy of the European Union law. The second part then turns the attention to the legal instruments which make it possible European Union to accede. This part provides an analysis of the Accession agreement on the accession of the European Union to the Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms which contains legal, institutional and technical solutions of the European Union's incorporation into the Convention system. This analysis serves as a basis for the next part of the thesis, which focuses on the recent Opinion of the Court of Justice of the European Union 2/13. In this opinion Court found...
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Relationship of the European Union legal order to the World Trade Organization law
Tměj, Jakub ; Scheu, Harald Christian (advisor) ; Svobodová, Magdaléna (referee)
Both, the European Union legal order and the World Trade Organization law represent important examples of the supranational legal system. This thesis focuses on their mutual relationship, in concrete through the perspective of the EU law. It aims to analyse how the European law approaches the WTO rules and which effects are granted to them. Introductory chapter provides the reader with a wider perspective of the examined topic dealing with relationship of the European law and the public international law in general. It presents the historical development as well as the current status of the relationship. Attention is brought to relevant provisions of the EU law and related case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. It also outlines a theoretical background of the issue. Chapter Two focuses in a more specific way on the position of WTO norms in the EU legal order. Firstly, it briefly defines the WTO law while reflecting the specifics in regard of the EU. Afterwards, it is examined, which effects are granted to the WTO rules in the European law, particularly through the reasoning of the CJEU. The last chapter puts the results of the analysis into a wider context and sketches the background of the topic at hand. That provides inputs for a final evaluation of the current status and an...
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