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"E-business" and International Private Law
Davidovová, Daniela ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Poláček, Bohumil (referee) ; Ondřej, Jan (referee)
Univerzita Karlova Právnická fakulta "E-BUSINESS" A MEZINÁRODNÍ PRÁVO SOUKROMÉ ("E-business" and International Private Law) Abstract 2014 Daniela Davidovová ABSTRACT This work concerns selected aspects of e-business and international private law. Its goal is to determine, whether the current rules of international private law are applicable to the legal relationships resulting from e-business. The work consists of six chapters: Internet and E-business, E-business and International Private Law in the Czech Republic, Application of International Private Law rules to selected contract types, Contractual terms of selected e-business entrepreneurs, Specific rules applicable to non-contractual legal relationships and De lege ferenda. The first and second chapters provide the essentials of the problematic, including the terminology and explanation on how the internet and e-business works. Chapters three and five enable to observe theoretical problems of International Private Law rules applicable for e-business legal relationships. The main questions observed in this work are following: what is the competent court and what is the applicable law in the legal relationships arising while doing e-business? Answers are provided from the perspective of the Czech e-business entrepreneur who is selling products/providing...
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Conflict of Laws in the European Union Law concerning Obligations
Spozdilová, Karolina ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Kunz, Oto (referee) ; Kučera, Zdeněk (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the proper law under the Rome I Regulation and the Rome II Regulation and find out the differences and similarities between them. The thesis is composed of introduction, four parts and conclusion. The part One describes general and theoretical topics of European Private International Law (EPIL) - explains the notion and methods of regulation of Private International Law, notion, meaning, and sources of law and principles of application of EPIL. The part Two is concerned with the history of creation, structure, and scope of the Rome I and Rome II Regulations. Parts Three and Four represent the core of this thesis. The part Three analyzes the proper law of contract under the Rome I Regulation and non- contractual obligations under the Rome II Regulation. It focuses on ascertaining of the applicable law for obligations, on limits of the proper law and other related questions. Part Four summarizes all knowledge. It illustrates the results of comparison of the Rome I and Rome II Regulations.
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Private international law in a comparative perspective (International family law in Czech republic and in Federal Republic of Germany)
Černá, Aneta Antonie ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Kučera, Zdeněk (referee)
Private international law in a comparative perspective: International family law in the Czech republic and in the Federal Republic of Germany The subject matter of this thesis is a comparison of Czech and German legal regulations of international family law. I have concretely focused on a regulation of matrimonial law with an international element and on a regulation of relations connected with registered partnership containing the international element. I have chosen this subject matter because this field has not been completely unified by a legislation of the European Union and so that I can compare legal regulations in the Czech Republic and in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is a really actual theme because a new law act about international law is going to be effective from 1st January, 2014 in the Czech Republic and furthermore the Regulation Rome III governing applicable law for a severance and divorce has become effective in some member states of the EU. Also there have been designed other new Regulations regulating marital relations and relations of registered partnership with the international element. A development of a new legal regulation allowed me to elaborate the topic with using information which has not been used so summarily yet. So this work could be a contribution according...
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Legal regulation of mediation and international arbitration procedure in the Czech Republic and Argentina
Milerová, Sylvie ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Dobiáš, Petr (referee)
Legal Regulation of Mediation and International Arbitration Procedure in the Czech Republic and Argentina The purpose of my thesis is to describe the legal regulations of mediation and international arbitration in the Czech Republic and Argentina, find the differences between these regulations, compare them and draw recommendations for the future development of these insitutes in both countries. The thesis begins with an introduction, where I outline the reasons that led me to choose the topic and write this thesis, the method used as well as the outcome that I intend to reach. Following the introduction, the thesis is divided into eight chapters. The first chapter provides the reader with a general overview of basic concepts of mediation and arbitration. The chapter begins with an attempt to systematically class these two institutes. Subsequently, a characteristics of mediation as an ADR method and arbitration including the description of the four main theoretical concepts, is outlined. These concepts are not only crucial for understanding arbitration, but also, as the text shows further on, for legislative activity in this field. The last part of the chapter contains the advantages and disadvantages of arbitration, which explain the popularity of (international) arbitration. The second chapter...
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The Determination of Governing Law in the Absence of Choice in Selected Obligations in the Czech Republic and in the United States
Chvosta, Ondřej ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Kučera, Zdeněk (referee)
rigorózní práce v anglickém jazyce: This thesis compares the determination of governing law in selected obligations in the Czech Republic and in the United States. This comparison is made against the background of two principles: legal certainty (typical for the Czech Republic) and Equity (typical for the United States). Chapter one discusses the different approaches to private international law in the two countries, and discusses the relationship between Equity and Legal Certainty. Chapter one also discusses the applicable sources of law. Chapter two compares the different approaches to choice of law in contractual obligations. The choice-of-law rules of relevant Czech and European statutes are analyzed in detail. Furthermore, the American approaches to choice of law are introduced and examined, namely: the First Restatement approach, Currie's Interest Analysis, the Second Restatement approach, the Better Law Approach, and the Significant Contacts Approach. Chapter three is analogical to chapter two, but it focuses on non-contractual obligations (Torts). The focus of this chapter is EU Regulation Rome II and the particularities of the First and Second Restatements and Currie's Interest Analysis when applied to torts. The conclusion summarizes the author's main ideas and opinions.
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Methods of Investment in International Private Law
Štaňko, Andrej ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Balaš, Vladimír (referee) ; Poláček, Bohumil (referee)
Methods of Investment in International Private Law Dissertation thesis is structured into 9 Sections. First section deals with reasons why entrepreneurs use international holdings: regulative, questions of taxation and legal system reasons. Second section describes legal sources applicable for the analyzed issues. Third section summarizes some of the risks relating to use of international holding companies, namely risk of breaching the criminal law or circumventing other legal rules. Apart from legal risks, there are economic risks to be mitigated. The risks mentioned are systematic risk (e.g., bankruptcy of the state) and personal risk relating to the foreign managers (incompetency, fraud). Fifth section deals with typical transactions in the group of companies relating to financing by banks and bods issuance. Briefly analyzed are also acquisition structures and whitewash procedure. Sixth and seventh section describe tax burdens in the Czech republic, Cyprus, Seychelles, Mauritius and number of other countries. Analysis of the jurisdictions in nine countries as to the recognition and enforcement of foreign judicial decisions is provided in the section eight. The dissertation thesis is concluded with description of the civil law applicable after the so called recodification planned in the Czech...
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Mediation of Commercial Disputes: Domestic and International Perspectives
Svatoš, Martin ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Balaš, Vladimír (referee) ; Poláček, Bohumil (referee)
SUMMARY: MEDIATION OF COMMERCIAL DISPUTES - DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Dr. Martin Svatoš This paper addresses the mediation and its use in the both domestic and international commercial disputes. The milieu that serves as a source of the problems to be resolved during mediation is a specific one. It demands quick, cost-effective and confidential resolution of complicated disputes involving several parties. In general, this cannot be granted by the traditional ways of dispute resolution - litigation and arbitration. Mediation is regarded as a cost-effective and quick extrajudicial resolution of disputes in civil and commercial matters through processes tailored to the needs of the parties. On the other hand, there are several legal and legal-related issues that have to be discussed. And thus, the question that remains to be answered is: Is mediation really as effective as it is told? And in the case of a positive answer - why it is not the most commonly used dispute resolution procedure? The main goal of this thesis is to answer these queries. Its first part focuses on the issue of mediation in general. Quite surprisingly, there is no exact definition of mediation neither in the legal acts, nor in the opinion of the ADR experts. In contrast, plenty of definition can be found after short...
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Companies and their mobility in the European context
Belloňová, Pavla ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Brodec, Jan (referee) ; Poláček, Bohumil (referee)
With regard to the gradual economic globalisation markets of States become more and more interconnected, especially so in the European Union which aims to create a single internal market without internal borders and barriers to the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital. Naturally, it influences behaviour of economic participants on the market. With increase of competition it is necessary to be more innovative, active and to search for new opportunities for expansion not only in one's own State but also abroad which entails entering into relations with foreign entities. In the course of time it might be useful or even necessary to relocate the place of business. Such need might not and, indeed, does not concern only natural person but also legal entities such as companies. However, the status of companies in cross-border relations has some specific features in comparison to the status of natural persons. A company is only an artificial product of law, a mere legal fiction, and therefore, its existence is much more closely linked with a specific legal order. A company has legal personality only insofar as some legal order acknowledges it. Different approaches how to link a company to a certain State have been evolved in different States - either the connecting factor is the statutory...
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Lex causae of consumer contracts with international element
Bambulová, Barbora ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Brodec, Jan (referee)
The thesis is based on the previous work of the author written as a thesis to terminate undergraduate studies in law. In the beginning, it covers two main sources of the EU law regarding the lex causae of contracts with an international element in the area of civil and commercial obligations, i. e. The Rome convention and the Rome I Regulation. In order to better capture the evolution in determination of the lex causae in commercial and civil contracts with an international element, the author introduces first the former and consequently in a comparative way, also the latter. Since this part of the thesis is presented in more general way, it follows that the author deals with the particular issue of consumer protection in the second part. The second part of the thesis covers the issue of consumer contracts as regards the Rome convention and the Rome I Regulation. While generally, contracts are characterized by their nature of performance, in the case of consumer contracts, it is the nature of contractual parties which is decisive. Regarding the consumer contracts, the author analyses the basic terminology of therein in the Czech and the EU context and also indicates possible linguistic problems. Furthermore, the author focuses more in detail on the Consumer Rights Directive which revises by the...
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A Criterion of Habitual Residence in Private International Law
Pfeiffer, Magdalena ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Dolanská Bányaiová, Lucie (referee) ; Zavadilová, Marta (referee)
This dissertation deals with one of the most significant concepts of contemporary private international law - the concept of habitual residence. The concept of habitual residence was introduced into the field of private international law within the context of the unification work of the Hague Conference of Private International Law in the interest of finding a compromise between the traditional connecting factors of domicile, dominant in the sphere of common law, and nationality, that is historically closely bound to continental legal systems. Thanks to the long and systematic unification work of the Hague Conference of Private International Law, the connecting factor of habitual residence has gained a permanent indisputable position in private international law. The concept of habitual residence has also forcefully made its way through into the rapidly developing sphere of European private international law. The European Union has followed in the footsteps of the Hague Conference of Private International Law: habitual residence is today the central, most frequently adopted connecting factor in the unified conflict-of-laws rules, that determine the applicable law, as well as in the rules that determine the jurisdiction of the forum. Building on the recent intense development in this field of...
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