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UNCITRAL arbitration rules and their application in practice
Vlasova, Olga ; Růžička, Květoslav (advisor) ; Zavadilová, Marta (referee)
UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and their application in practice Abstract This thesis investigates the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and their application in practice. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the extent of the application of UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and other UNCITRAL rules in the current climate of the development of international trade, the growth of international economic relations and, as a result, the enhancement of integration processes. Legal-analytical, legal- comparative and legal-descriptive methodology is used to address the aforementioned research question. The thesis is divided into two parts. In the first part, the reader is acquainted with the general concept of international arbitration, the arbitration agreement as the basis of arbitration, arbitrability and, last but not least, the difference between ad hoc and institutional arbitration. In the second part, the author covers the UNCITRAL Commission and its role in private international law, investigates the legal aspects of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and their most recent revision in 2010 and their practical implementation in modern conditions of international trade under the current impact of economic sanctions. In conclusion, the author draws up specific statements, that further development of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules...
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Alternative dispute resolution in sports at the international level with an emphasis on the Court of Arbitration for Sport
Mádl, Ladislav ; Balaš, Vladimír (advisor) ; Hamerník, Pavel (referee)
81 Alternative dispute resolution in international sport with the emphasis on the Court of Arbitration for Sport Key words: alternative dispute resolution, Court of Arbitration for Sport, UNCITRAL Abstract The goal of this thesis is to introduce basic methods for alternative dispute resolution currently available in the area of sport on the international level. First chapter deals generally about the term of alternative dispute resolution, reasons of its growing popularity particularly in the sporting sphere, its advantages and the perception of its use worldwide. The second chapter comprises a detailed analysis of now probably the most important institution in the field of alternative dispute resolution in sport, which is the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) with its seat in Lausanne, Switzerland. After more than 30 years of its existence, this institution is already an established brand that offers solutions to disputes within sport, primarily through arbitration. This takes place either within the Ordinary Division or the Appeals Division of the Court. Detailed description of the proceedings in disputes of this kind is the main part of this chapter, supplemented with practical findings. Special branch of arbitration offered by CAS is the resolution of disputes on major sporting events such as the...
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Investment Policy of the European Union - protection of foreign direct investment
Štamberk, David ; Šmejkal, Václav (referee)
Investment Policy of the European Union - protection of foreign direct investment Abstract One of the changes brought about by the Lisbon Treaty is the explicit inclusion of foreign direct investment and its protection in the common commercial policy of the European Union. This is one of the areas of exclusive competence of the EU. The European Union has subsequently stated negotiating bilateral agreements governing, inter alia, investment issues. However, it has not been spared from controversy and negative publicity that has been accompanying especially the TTIP and the CETA. This work aims to analyse the investment policy of the EU and mutual interaction of its institutions with the Member States and third parties. After general introduction to the topic of international investment law and EU law (chapters II. and III.), it is devoted to the issue of protection of foreign investment in the internal market. Its regime is then compared with the BIT regime (chapter IV.). Attention is then focussed towards the EU's external relations in the field of investment protection. Its competence is subjected to further analysis (chapter V.) and current results of efforts of the Commission and the EU as such are also discussed (chapter VI.). It is so in the light of possible impacts of foreign investment in terms of...
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UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and their application in practice
Halada, Martin ; Růžička, Květoslav (advisor) ; Brodec, Jan (referee)
UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and their application in practice UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules are a standard for ad hoc international commercial arbitration. 1976 version of UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules was replaced by extensive revision of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules in 2010 and in 2013 by revision implementing the Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze individual provisions of UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and explain them to the reader with an emphasis on their everyday use by arbitration practitioners. In the second chapter of this thesis a general introduction into the topic of international commercial arbitration, including the pros and cons of international commercial arbitration as a method of dispute resolution in international commerce is given. The third chapter begins with a description of the genesis of UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules in the context of works of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. The following chapters, which constitute the main body of this thesis, follow the structure of UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and write up in detail all of its 43 Articles. The interpretation of individual provisions of UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules is in practice influenced by, among others, soft-law. This influence is...
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Investment Policy of the European Union - protection of foreign direct investment
Štamberk, David ; Šmejkal, Václav (referee)
Investment Policy of the European Union - protection of foreign direct investment Abstract One of the changes brought about by the Lisbon Treaty is the explicit inclusion of foreign direct investment and its protection in the common commercial policy of the European Union. This is one of the areas of exclusive competence of the EU. The European Union has subsequently stated negotiating bilateral agreements governing, inter alia, investment issues. However, it has not been spared from controversy and negative publicity that has been accompanying especially the TTIP and the CETA. This work aims to analyse the investment policy of the EU and mutual interaction of its institutions with the Member States and third parties. After general introduction to the topic of international investment law and EU law (chapters II. and III.), it is devoted to the issue of protection of foreign investment in the internal market. Its regime is then compared with the BIT regime (chapter IV.). Attention is then focussed towards the EU's external relations in the field of investment protection. Its competence is subjected to further analysis (chapter V.) and current results of efforts of the Commission and the EU as such are also discussed (chapter VI.). It is so in the light of possible impacts of foreign investment in terms of...
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Investment Protection in the European Union
Olík, Miloš ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Feigerlová, Monika (referee) ; Ondřej, Jan (referee)
1 Abstract This dissertation deals with investment protection in the European Union from several points of view. The first part deals with the history of investment protection and its main basis and grounds for current legislation and proposals for future regulation, particularly within the EU. In subsequent parts, current legislation and intra-European Union investment protection is analysed in detail, including the question of validity and applicability of Intra-EU BITs, i.e. bilateral treaties concluded between two EU Member States. The analysis is made from the perspective of EU law, as well as from the point of view of public international law. The dissertation further deals with their relationship and demonstrates contradictions between them in two crucial cases, Eureko/Achmea and Micula. Additional themes of this dissertation are the powers of the European Union regarding investment protection and the conclusion of international treaties such as CETA and TTIP. This dissertation further deals with the status, jurisdiction and functioning of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), demonstrating the relatively smooth and widely accepted investment dispute settlement mechanism. In this regard, the proposed EU Multilateral Investment Court project in analysed, including a...
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Investment Policy of the European Union - protection of foreign direct investment
Štamberk, David ; Tomášek, Michal (advisor) ; Balaš, Vladimír (referee) ; Křepelka, Filip (referee)
Investment Policy of the European Union - protection of foreign direct investment Abstract One of the changes brought about by the Lisbon Treaty is the explicit inclusion of foreign direct investment and its protection in the common commercial policy of the European Union. This is one of the areas of exclusive competence of the EU. The European Union has subsequently stated negotiating bilateral agreements governing, inter alia, investment issues. However, it has not been spared from controversy and negative publicity that has been accompanying especially the TTIP and the CETA. This work aims to analyse the investment policy of the EU and mutual interaction of its institutions with the Member States and third parties. After general introduction to the topic of international investment law and EU law (chapters II. and III.), it is devoted to the issue of protection of foreign investment in the internal market. Its regime is then compared with the BIT regime (chapter IV.). Attention is then focussed towards the EU's external relations in the field of investment protection. Its competence is subjected to further analysis (chapter V.) and current results of efforts of the Commission and the EU as such are also discussed (chapter VI.). It is so in the light of possible impacts of foreign investment in terms of...
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Electronic commerce from a private international law perspective
Kurilova, Elena ; Růžička, Květoslav (advisor) ; Poláček, Bohumil (referee) ; Zahradníčková, Marie (referee)
Electronic commerce from a private international law perspective The objective of this thesis is to study how the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is applied in the field of electronic commerce and compare it to the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts in regard to the prevailing tendency to remove legal barriers to electronic commerce. The comparison is made in terms of geographic and material scope, forms of contract and how contracts are formed. An analysis of conditions and obstacles to the application of the CISG within the field of electronic commerce represents the core of the work. The thesis is based on the assumption that the Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts is an instrument which helps to overcome identified obstacles. The thesis formulates a conclusion on overcoming just one of the obstacles on the basis of the principle of technological neutrality, and it further demonstrates that the requirement of being in written form may remain an obstacle. As such, the thesis is a response to the question of why the Convention is signed and ratified by a relatively small number of states.
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International Investment Agreements and European Union Law
Fecák, Tomáš ; Šturma, Pavel (advisor) ; Balaš, Vladimír (referee) ; Švarc, Zbyněk (referee)
The relationship between international investment agreements and EU law has attracted increased attention in past few years. The aim of this thesis is to bring a detailed analysis of various aspects of this complicated relationship. In attainment of this aim it proceeds in the following steps. After a short introduction (Chapter I.), Chapter II. briefly overviews typical content of bilateral investment treaties, following with a more detailed analysis of relevant EU law rules concerning foreign investment and subsequent comparison of both sets of rules. Chapter III. deals with investment agreements to be concluded by the EU, in particular with questions of external competence for foreign investment, responsibility for breaches of investment agreements concluded by the EU and the future shape of EU investment policy. The status of existing bilateral investment treaties concluded between EU member states and third countries is analyzed in Chapter IV. Chapter V. tackles various issues related to investment treaties concluded between member states (so called intra-EU BITs).
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Alternative dispute resolution in sports at the international level with an emphasis on the Court of Arbitration for Sport
Mádl, Ladislav ; Balaš, Vladimír (advisor) ; Hamerník, Pavel (referee)
81 Alternative dispute resolution in international sport with the emphasis on the Court of Arbitration for Sport Key words: alternative dispute resolution, Court of Arbitration for Sport, UNCITRAL Abstract The goal of this thesis is to introduce basic methods for alternative dispute resolution currently available in the area of sport on the international level. First chapter deals generally about the term of alternative dispute resolution, reasons of its growing popularity particularly in the sporting sphere, its advantages and the perception of its use worldwide. The second chapter comprises a detailed analysis of now probably the most important institution in the field of alternative dispute resolution in sport, which is the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) with its seat in Lausanne, Switzerland. After more than 30 years of its existence, this institution is already an established brand that offers solutions to disputes within sport, primarily through arbitration. This takes place either within the Ordinary Division or the Appeals Division of the Court. Detailed description of the proceedings in disputes of this kind is the main part of this chapter, supplemented with practical findings. Special branch of arbitration offered by CAS is the resolution of disputes on major sporting events such as the...
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