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Jurisdiction over international crimes and the Rohingya case
Malina, Václav ; Bílková, Veronika (advisor) ; Honusková, Věra (referee)
Jurisdiction over international crimes and the Rohingya case Abstract This thesis discusses the situation of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar in relation to two court cases that have been initiated in recent years before the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. The thesis examines whether the elements of the crime of genocide and selected crimes against humanity, i.e. crimes of deportation, persecution and other inhumane acts, have been fulfilled. After summarizing the historical development of modern Myanmar and the position of the Rohingya in Myanmar society, the thesis identifies the individual elements of the selected crimes under international law, which were chosen for the thesis based on the aforementioned ongoing proceedings. Furthermore, the author evaluates the previous decisions of the two judicial institutions and comments upon them on the basis of secondary literature. The question of state responsibility for breaches of obligations under international law and the position of victims in international criminal proceedings are also approached in relation to the Rohingya cases. In the final chapter of the thesis, the author not only assesses the chances of success for both prosecutors and victims, but also looks for the relevance of international (criminal) law in...
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Brussels I Regulation and other procedural legislation of European private international law
Jindrová, Daniela ; Brodec, Jan (advisor) ; Kučera, Zdeněk (referee)
Regulation Brussels I and other procedural legislation of European private international law Diploma thesis is particularly focused on rules regulating jurisdiction according Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, so called Brussels I Regulation. The Brussels I Regulation represents a cornerstone of European judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters. The main aim of my thesis is to provide comprehensive interpretation of jurisdictional rules in accordance with this regulation. The thesis is systematically divided into nine chapters. The purpose of Chapter One is to introduce a complex issue of European Private International Civil Procedure Law by way of defining the essential terms, subsuming it under the broader framework of private international law and also by describing historical development of this area. Next chapters are entirely concentrated on the Brussels I Regulation. Chapter Two addresses general aspects of this regulation. Those are development and subject matter of the regulation and interpretation of basic terms such as jurisdiction and domicile. Chapter Three deals with scope of application, the understanding of which is fundamental for a correct application. Five subsequent...
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Set-off Defence in International Commercial Arbitration
Hock, Branislav ; Dobiáš, Petr (advisor) ; Brodec, Jan (referee)
Set-off is meant to be one of the most important defences in arbitration proceedings. About 15 - 20 per cent of all international arbitrations involve set-off defence. There is not much dispute about the possibility to virtually extinguish mutual claims of the parties however national concepts of set-off differ dramatically. Moreover, in contrast to most other legal mechanisms set-off is always formed by no less than two obligations. These obligations may be regarded differently and be subject to different laws which can lead to a series of difficult questions regarding not only choice-of-law but also judicial competence. The centrum of the controversy lays in the situation when the defendant raises his cross-claim, which falls outside the scope of an arbitration agreement, to be mutually offset. Arbitrators can be in a very difficult position as they have to find, in the absence of any clear rule, reasonable limits of the adjudication of set-off. This work aims to find out what should be the limits of the adjudication of set-off with the cross-claim over which the tribunal normally wouldn't be competent to decide. There is offered a legal framework with a set of good practices which should be followed in order to strengthen legal certainty, procedural efficiency and effective functioning of...
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Jurisdiction and Admissibility in the Czech Republic's BITs
Heroutová, Kateřina ; Balaš, Vladimír (advisor) ; Šturma, Pavel (referee)
IN ENGLISH Jurisdiction and Admissibility in the Czech Republic's BITs The purpose of this work is to assess whether the high number of investment cases the Czech Republic had to face was partially prompted by wordings of Czech Republic's BITs. The work focuses on clauses that pertain to jurisdiction of tribunal and admissibility of claim, as these are the first questions that are raised in every proceedings. The work consists of six Chapters. The first Chapter is introductory and outlines the issues that will be examined. The second Chapter defines the terms 'jurisdiction' and 'admissibility' and explains how the concepts relate to provisions of BITs. The third Chapter is dedicated to topic of treaty shopping. It explores cases against the Czech Republic where the issue of treaty shopping was raised, analyses the argumentation and provisions that were used in each case together with similar provisions contained in other Czech BITs, and suggests changes that should be made in order to make the clauses more effective against treaty shopping. The fourth Chapter examines the instance of parallel proceedings commenced against the Czech Republic. In a structure similar to the previous Chapter, it firstly analyses the awards and the BITs that were used together with the rest of the Czech BITs. Finally it...
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Aspects of registration of vessels in maritime law
Mládek, Matěj ; Ondřej, Jan (advisor) ; Balaš, Vladimír (referee)
Název diplomové práce: Aspekty registrace plavidel v mezinárodním právu (oblast mezinárodního práva mořského a registrace námořních plavidel) (Aspects of the registration of vessels in the International Law) Abstrakt: Along with fishing, navigation is the oldest use of the sea, and remains one of the most important. Ships are the most important means of transporting goods on such routes: ninety-five per cent, by weight, of all international trade is seaborne. On the military side is it same important battle field. While almost all costal States and some landlocked (right now without Czech Republic) ones have a merchant navy of some description, one of the remarkable features of the international shipping industry is the degree to which ships are concentrated under the flags of relatively few States. This does not necessarily indicate a similar distribution of ownership. We are talking about "flags of convenience" and it is one of the topics of this thesis. This thesis deals transformation from customary international law to current codified regulation of the registration of vessels. The ascription of nationality to ships is one of the most important means by which public order is maintained at sea. As well as indicating what rights a ship enjoys and to what obligations it is subjects, the nationality of a...
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Electronic trading with an international element: the jurisdiction of the state and the conception of business activities on the Internet
Vondřich, Lukáš ; Brodec, Jan (advisor) ; Dobiáš, Petr (referee)
INTERNET BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS WITH AN INTERNATIONAL ELEMENT The recent developments in technology have raised new forms of electronic communication and business strategies on the Internet, in particular the direct e-commerce operated through dynamically generated websites. As a consequence, the suitability of traditional legal norms has been challenged, including the rules governing jurisdiction. The law therefore tries to respond by adoption of new legal concepts and principles or adaptation of the old ones. One of them is the concept of directing business activities, which was incorporated into EU law in relation to the special jurisdictional rules protecting the consumers of the member states under the Brussels Regulation. Accordingly, the aim of the thesis is to characterize the nature of the concept of directing business activities under the article 15 of the Brussels Regulation, as well as to identify the relevant criteria as to its fulfilment, all in the context of the disputes arising from the consumer contracts concluded as a result of the business activities directed towards the consumers of a member state on the Internet. The first section of the thesis deals with the traditional basis of the state's sovereignty and jurisdictional rules, whereas the second section identifies the specific nature...
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Internet law
Meissnerová, Anna ; Žikovská, Petra (advisor) ; Wünschová Pujmanová, Alexandra (referee)
! 69! Internet Law - Master Thesis Abstract This study explores and describes the discipline of Internet Law as well as the problems arising from applying its jurisdiction. Furthermore, it deals with liability limitation in the on-line world and presents various tendencies in the development of the Internet Copyright Law in the Czech Republic, USA and France. This study is divided into two main chapters. The first one deals with the theoretical and philosophical foundations of the Internet phenomenon and the second focuses on practical aspects of the on-line legal regulation. The tendencies in interpretation and application of the legislature are presented through important case studies. The research strategy for this thesis was data gathering followed by its analysis. Providing examples of local legislature (Czech, USA, French) together with presentation of corresponding case studies I was searching for the keys for interpretation and application strategies of this relatively young and dynamically developing field of law. The study's objective was to find answers to the following two questions: a) Is there a general need for the Internet legal regulation? And if so b) What should the legislative tendency within the Internet Copyright Law be? During the writing process I had to confront two opposite...
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The Internet and private international law
Vágnerová, Alena ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Dobiáš, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with issues raised by the emergence of the Internet and e-commerce for the private international law. Using the Internet to conduct business brings up new situations that must be reflected and dealt with by law. It is to be solved whether just accommodation of current rules will be enough or new regulation will have to be adopted. At first the thesis describes specific characteristics of the Internet, such as low costs of addressing users regardless of their geographic location or possibility of performing contracts in digitalized form and legal consequences of these characteristics. The following chapter deals with principles from which stems the difference in between jurisdictional rules in common law and civil law states. It examines jurisdictional rules stated in Brussels I Regulation in relation to e-commerce, especially consumer contracts. These firm rules are aimed to secure predictability of forum and in times of the Internet they have to overcome some difficulties through autonomous definitions of European Court of Justice. The next chapter describes the approach of US courts to Internet related disputes. Since they have wide discretion they are able to react much more flexibly to technological developments. Their decisions therefore may be an inspiration for the...
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Current issues in International Carriage by Air
Jandík, Jakub ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Bříza, Petr (referee)
Current issues in International Carriage by Air Abstract The thesis deals with selected topical issues that may arise in today's international civil air transport in the context of the global pandemic of the COVID-19 disease from the perspective of private international law. The first chapter deals with the history and relevant sources of legal regulation of international civil air transport and their interrelationship. The second chapter addresses the legal status of COVID-19 in the contractual relations of international carriage by air and mentions various past and present initiatives to combat the pandemic by selected states and the International Civil Aviation Organization. The third chapter deals with the theoretical concept of the issue of air carrier liability for damage resulting from the infection of a passenger with COVID-19. It seeks to do so by interpreting and analyzing the relevant terms and, at the same time, the applicable foreign case law and literature. The fourth chapter focuses on the jurisdictional rules in disputes over such damages and compares the current differences in the interpretation and application of these rules by the US and European judiciaries. Keywords: COVID-19, Air carrier's liability, Jurisdiction
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Jurisdiction and Admissibility in the Czech Republic's BITs
Heroutová, Kateřina ; Balaš, Vladimír (advisor) ; Šturma, Pavel (referee)
IN ENGLISH Jurisdiction and Admissibility in the Czech Republic's BITs The purpose of this work is to assess whether the high number of investment cases the Czech Republic had to face was partially prompted by wordings of Czech Republic's BITs. The work focuses on clauses that pertain to jurisdiction of tribunal and admissibility of claim, as these are the first questions that are raised in every proceedings. The work consists of six Chapters. The first Chapter is introductory and outlines the issues that will be examined. The second Chapter defines the terms 'jurisdiction' and 'admissibility' and explains how the concepts relate to provisions of BITs. The third Chapter is dedicated to topic of treaty shopping. It explores cases against the Czech Republic where the issue of treaty shopping was raised, analyses the argumentation and provisions that were used in each case together with similar provisions contained in other Czech BITs, and suggests changes that should be made in order to make the clauses more effective against treaty shopping. The fourth Chapter examines the instance of parallel proceedings commenced against the Czech Republic. In a structure similar to the previous Chapter, it firstly analyses the awards and the BITs that were used together with the rest of the Czech BITs. Finally it...
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