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Child Soldier in International Law
 Kučerová, Zuzana ; Hýbnerová, Stanislava (advisor) ; Honusková, Věra (referee)
Zuzana Kučerová: Child Soldier in International Law Abstract This thesis deals with child soldiers from the perspective of the international law. It is predominantly concerned with two questions: protection of children from recruiting and their possible criminal responsibility for international crimes. After a short introductory chapter, which covers a brief history of child soldiers, the second part gives an overview of international legal instruments which aim at preventing the underaged from being recruited into armed groups, as well as from taking part in hostilities. Those instruments belong to three different branches of international law: humanitarian law, human rights law and international criminal law. The author concludes that international criminal law in particular is the best instrument to protect children from becoming child soldiers. The reason is that international criminal law applies directly to individuals, including non-state actors such as commanders of paramilitary forces. It is also in force at the times when there is no armed conflict as defined by international humanitarian law. The third part of the work focuses on criminal responsibility of children for international crimes. The major question in this field is whether we can prosecute children for those crimes at all. On the one...
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Minimum age of criminal responsibility in English and Czech law - comparative study
 Gavendová, Lucie ; Vokoun, Rudolf (advisor) ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
1 Minimum age of criminal responsibility in English and Czech law - comparative study Abstract The subject of the rigorous thesis is criminal responsibility of juveniles, specifically the minimum age of criminal responsibility and its legal regulation in legal orders of selected countries - England and Wales on the one side and Czech republic on the other side. The minimum age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales which are both countries of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and typical representatives of Common Law legal system is 10 years old. The legal regulation in Czech republic as a representative of Continental Law legal system sets the age of criminal responsibility at the moment of completion of 15 years. The main aim of this thesis is to provide a reader with a comprehensive awareness of the legal regulation concerning the minimum age of criminal responsibility in surveyed countries and to compare these two different regulations via the method of comparative jurisprudence. First two chapters define the subject of this thesis from theoretical and methodological point of view. Theoretical determination provides a reader with elementary introduction of the main issue and includes also the list of fundamental legislation used in the following text of this thesis....
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