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konference

Katedra obchodného práva a hospodárskeho práva Právnickej fakulty UPJŠ v Košiciach
ve spolupráci s Ústavom štátu a práva SAV a Ústavem státu a práva AV ČR, v.v.i.
pořádá konferenci s názvem:

Akcionárske dohody a ich implikácie na riadenie obchodných společnosti

Termín: 30. - 31. března 2016
Místo konání: Kongresové centrum SAV Smolenice

Konferencia je súčasťou riešenia projektu „Modernizácia práva obchodných
spoločností ako súčasť rekodifikácie súkromného práva“ podporovaného
Agentúrou na podporu výskumu a vývoja. Zameria sa najmä na nedávno prijaté
zmeny v Obchodnom zákonníku dotýkajúce sa úpravy tzv. spoločníckych dohôd,
ako aj na zahraničné skúsenosti s takými dohodami, a to aj optikou širších
problémov dispozitívnosti a kogentnosti práva obchodných spoločností.

Program: 1. Smluvní autonomie při organizaci obchodních společností
Prof. JUDr. Dr. Karel Eliáš, ÚSaP AV ČR

2. Akcionárska dohoda (pojem, obsah, funkce, prevody atd.)
doc. JUDr. Bohumil Havel, Ph.D., ÚSaP AV ČR

3. Dohody spoločníkov a akcionárov: Súkromná autonómia v modelových právnych
úpravách EMCA, UNCITRAL Draft model law on a simplified business entity
prof. JUDr. Mária Patakyová, PhD., PrávF UK Bratislava

4. Akcionárske dohody „naruby“ (korporativizácia zmluvných dojednaní alebo
o presune zmluvy do stanov)
JUDr. Ing. Josef Šilhán, PhD., PrávF MU Brno

5. Komparatívne pohľady a národné správy:
- Česká republika
Prof. JUDr. Jan Dědič, CSc., JUDr. Jan Lasák, LL.M., AK Kocián Šolc Balaštík
- Akcionárske dohody v judikatúre Najvyššieho súdu ČR
doc. JUDr. Ivana Štenglová, PrávF UK Praha, CEVRO Institut
- Slovenská republika
JUDr. Radovan Pala, PhD. TaylorWessing e/n/w/c advokáti s.r.o.
- Nemecko, Rakúsko
Priv. Doz Dr. Sebastian Mock, PrávF Univerzita Hamburg
- Anglicko, Taliansko
JUDr. Žofia Šuleková, PhD. UPJŠ Košice, University of Cambridge

6. Vzťah akcionárskych dohôd k riadeniu spoločností, koncernové aspekty
a orgány spoločníkov (pracovný názov)
prof. JUDr. Stanislava Černá, CSc., PrávF UK Praha

7. Následky porušenia akcionárskych dohôd a ochrana pred akcionárskymi dohodami,
akcionárske dohody z pohľadu medzinárodného práva súkromného a procesního
doc. JUDr. Kristián Csach, PhD., LL.M., PrávF UPJŠ Košice

8. Ekonomické aspekty akcionárskych dohôd a efektivita zákonnej a zmluvnej úpravy
JUDr. Jan Petrov, LL.M., PrávF UP Olomouc

9. Riešenie sporov z akcionárskych dohôd, vnútrokorporačná arbitráž
JUDr. Juraj Gyarfás, LL.M., Allen & Overy Bratislava, s.r.o.

10. Dohody spoločníkov pri fúziách obchodných společnosti
Prof. JUDr. Ján Husár, CSc. PrávF UPJŠ Košice.

11. Prípadová štúdia (nad textom akcionárskej dohody)
JUDr. Miriam Galandová, PRK PARTNERS s.r.o., American Chamber of Commerce

Cieľom konferencie je vytvoriť diskusnú platformu pre preskúmanie čiastkovej
problematiky práva obchodných spoločností. Dúfame, že cieľ konferencie sa
podarí naplniť aktívnou diskusiou k téme konferencie a k predneseným
príspevkom. Preto bude dlhší čas vyhradený nielen pre jednotlivé príspevky ale aj
pre diskusiu o nastolených problémoch. Príspevok a aktívne vystúpenie nie je
nevyhnutnou podmienkou účasti na konferencii. Radi ale privítame ďalšie ešte
nepublikované príspevky o spoločníckych dohodách.


workshop

The Incubator Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies with the cooperation of the Institute of State and Law, Czech Academy of Sciences

cordially invites you and your colleagues to the conference and official kick-off event of the Incubator project entitled

‘The Interpretation and Functioning of the Right to Healthy Environment within the Central and Eastern European Region – Legal and Public Policy Frames’

Venue and date:
Hall 108, Czech Academy of Sciences, Narodni 3, 117 20 Prague 1
20 May 2016 (Friday), 10.a.m.

Programme

10.00-10.30
Opening, project introduction
Kecskés, Gábor PhD.
(Institute for Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences)

10.30-10.50
Majtényi, Balázs PhD.
(Institute for Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Misunderstood Fundamental Right? (The Right to Healthy Environment in Hungary)

10.50-11.10
Müllerová, Hana PhD.
(Institute of State and Law, Czech Academy of Sciences)
The Right to Environment in the Czech Republic: Courts Finally Turning Green

11.10-11.30
Jančářová, Ilona PhD.
(Masaryk University, Faculty of Law)
Right to Healthy Environment in Respect to Air Pollution in the Czech Republic

11.30-11.50
Maslen, Michal PhD.
(Trnava University, Faculty of Law)
Legal Framework and Public Policy Transposing the Requirements of the Right to a Healthy
Environment in the Slovak Republic

11.50-12.10
Saribeyoglu-Skalar, Meltem PhD.
(Marmara University, Faculty of Law)
The Right to a Healthy Environment in Turkey and the Question of Its Efficiency

12.10-12.30
Mauerhofer, Volker Dr.
(University of Vienna, Faculty of Life Sciences
A Right of/to a Healthy Environment: Overview on the Austrian Situation

12.30-12.50
Tomoszková, Veronika PhD.
(Palacky University Olomouc)
Substantive Right to Healthy Environment - A Right Without Content?

12.50-13.10
Oleshchenko, Viacheslav PhD.
(Koretsky Institute of State and Law,
Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences)
A Right of/to a Healthy Environment: Overview on the Ukrainian Legal Regulation

13.10-13.30
Kecskés, Gábor PhD.
(Institute for Legal Studies, Centre for Social
Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
European Perspectives – Green Rights within the Practice of the European
Court of Human Rights

13.30-13.50 Discussion

Zájemce o účast na workshopu prosíme o ohlášení na adrese mullerova@ilaw.cas.cz.


Konference

Ústav státu a práva AV ČR a Filosofický ústav AV ČR
pořádají dne 26.5.2016
jednodenní konferenci

Milovat kočky, jíst krávy: etika a práva zvířat

Program:

15:00 - 15:30 Tomáš Hříbek
Jiné mysli, jiná vědomí

15:30 - 16:00 Michal Milko
Rawlsův kontraktualismus a morální status zvířat

16:00 - 16:30 Vlastimil Vohánka
Etický vegetarianismus a efektivní altruismus pro speciesisty

16:30 - 16:45 Přestávka na kávu

16:45 - 17:15 Josef Kuře
Russell a Burch: Mezi rétorikou a realitou

17:15 - 17:45 David Černý
Etika zabíjení zvířat

17:45 - 18:15 Adam Doležal
Postavení zvířat v právu: Historie a současnost

18:15 - 20:00 Banket

Konference se koná v sídle Akademie věd ČR, Národní 3, sál č. 206


workshop

CeLAPA Doctoral Full Speed workshop
May 11, 2016

Venue: Czech Academy of Science, Institute of Law and State, Narodni 18

Chair: Axel Gosseries, Franz Weyr Fellow

9h30-9h50 - Radek Píša, PhD. Candidate, Charles University, Constitutional Law
Do courts really vary from public opinion?
Courts are usually imagined as institutions providing additional, structural perspective; this is one of the very basic assumptions behind the most theories of judicial legitimacy (most notably Alexy’s argumentative representation). My presentation is going to explore reasons why this is possibly an incorrect assessment. I intend to use Czech and Israeli cases during this reasoning.
Discusssant: Tom Parr

9h50-10h10 - Darina Jandova, PhD. Candidate, Charles University, Labour Law
Obesity and discrimination. Did the CJEU go too far?
In the recent case Kaltoft vs. Denmark the CJEU has ruled that obesity can be in specific cases considered discriminative on the ground of disability. I will briefly summarize the case and then present arguments to encourage discussion whether this decision is right and desirable or whether the CJEU went beyond the provisions of the European anti-discrimination directives.
Discussant: Greg Bognar

10h30-10h50 - Tomas Strelecek, PhD. Candidate, Charles University, Civil Law
How to render Czech evidence-seeking in civil litigation law even more democratic? I will present the main differences between material and formal truth in civil litigation in democratic and totalitarian regimes. I will then present how in the Czech republic we abolished the principle of material truth in contentious civil litigation as in order to render it more democratic and more in line with the idea of a rule of law. The current Czech law regulating contentious civil procedure is rather free of residuals from totalitarianism. However, I will identify points which can be changed to to make it even more democratic.
Discussant: Petr Agha

10h50-11h10 - Elmira Lyapina, PhD student, Charles University, Public International Law
What are the key challenges for creation the adequate legal basis for EU-RUSSIA gas relations?
In order to improve the current EU-RUSSIA gas relations, there is a need to establish the dispute resolution body. Moreover, to avoid unpredictable decisions, occurs a need to design substantive legal basis. In my presentation, I will identify which key requirements the dispute resolution body and the substantive legal framework should meet.
Discussant: Radek Píša

11h10-11h30 - Tomas Friedel, PhD. Candidate, Charles University, Dept. of Political Sc. and Sociology
Judicial Disqualification and Social Media Friendships
The presentation considers the impact of social media connections of judges on judicial impartiality. At first, the notion of judicial impartiality is introduced (distinction between actual impartiality and appearance of impartiality is mentioned). In the following part, the nature of social media connections is discussed and compared to the real-life connections with regard to threats they could mean to judicial impartiality.
Discussant: Axel Gosseries


workshop

Prague Spring Law and Public Policy workshops (CeLAPA)
May 10-11, 2016
Convenor: Axel Gosseries

“What’s wrong with discrimination?”
CeLAPA Research workshop - May 10, 2016

Venue: Charles University, Faculty of Law, nám. Curieových 901/7

Morning chair:
Jana Ondrejko (Charles University, Faculty of Law)

10h – 11h15 - Tom Parr (Essex)
The Wrongness of Discrimination: A Defence of Pluralism

Abstract: Some philosophers defend a harm-based account of the wrongness of discrimination, according to which we can explain the wrongness of discrimination with reference to the harmfulness of discriminatory acts. Against this view, I offer two objections. The conditions objection states that the harm-based account implausibly fails to recognize that harmless discrimination can be wrong. The explanation objection states that the harm-based account fails adequately to identify all of the wrong-making properties of discriminatory acts. On this basis, I argue that the structure of a satisfactory view cannot be exclusively outcome-focused. A more promising view must also incorporate a concern for the deliberation of the discriminator and, in particular, the reasons that motivate or fail to motivate her action. This result is not only philosophically interesting, it also has implications for the social and political institutions that we ought to support.

Discussant: Oscar Horta 11h30-12h45 – Miklós Könczöl (Pázmány Catholic Univ./Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Proxy votes for under-age citizens: Positive or negative discrimination?

Abstract: The idea that families with children could cast additional votes at elections has been raised, once again, during the debates surrounding the drafting of the new Fundamental Law of Hungary. While such solutions were never enacted, a good deal of legal and philosophical arguments have been formulated, both pro and con. My presentation first discusses rights-based arguments focusing on the discriminative character of voting age limits. Second, I turn to the broader issue of discrimination as it appeared in the Hungarian context. While age limits are arguably discriminative against under-age citizens, in the Hungarian debate the concern was raised that proxy votes cast by parents may be discriminative against non-parents on the one hand, and may lead to the over-representation of certain social groups (such as Christian or Gypsy families) on the other.

Discussant: Petr Agha

Afternoon chair:
Ondrej Preuss (Charles University)(TBC)

14h15-15h30 Oscar Horta (Santiago de Compostela)
Discrimination against vegans

Abstract : Discrimination against vegans has some features in common with others such as ageism and lookism, especially in that it remains mostly invisible, even if it affects a non-negligible number of people. However, discrimination against vegans has some distinctive characteristics. It is a form of discrimination whose victims are particularly well aware of. However, vegans typically choose not to fight it. This happens as it is in fact a second order discrimination resulting from discrimination against nonhuman animals, on which vegans focus. If the first order discrimination (the one against nonhuman animals) is wrong, then all instances of discrimination against vegans are wrong too. If discrimination against nonhuman animals is correct, or it is not really a form of discrimination at all, then many (though not all) forms of private discrimination against vegans can be right, but a number of instances of public discrimination against them will still be very hard t o defend.

Discussant : Axel Gosseries

15h45-17h Greg Bognar (Stockholm)
Disability Discrimination in Health Care

Many philosophers, health service researchers, and disability advocates worry that people with chronic or permanent disabilities may be unfairly discriminated against in health care, even when health care resources are allocated on the basis of standard prioritization methods (like cost-effectiveness analysis). In the first part of this talk, I present and clarify the disability discrimination objection. I explain and illustrate the ways in which people with disabilities may be disadvantaged in health care resource allocation, and discuss whether the disadvantages are unfair. In the second part, I ask whether the philosophical problem applies in real life; that is, whether real-life priority setting exercises would in fact result in unfair discrimination against people with disabilities.

Discussant: Tom Parr


Panelová diskuse

Centre for Law and Public Affairs (CeLAPA) vás ve spolupráci se Salónem Práva a Common Law Society zve na panelovou diskusi:

Lidská práva (ne)smysl české politiky

Datum: úterý 12. 4. 2016 v 18.00 hod
Místo: Právnická fakulta UK v Praze, místnost č. 100.

Diskutující:

- prof. PhDr. Václav Bělohradský, Ph.D.
- doc. PhDr. Ing. Ondřej Císař, Ph.D.
- prof. Ing. Petr Drulák, Ph.D.
- PhDr. Michal Kopeček, Ph.D.
- prof. JUDr. Jiří Přibáň, DrSc.
- Mgr. Anna Šabatová, Ph.D.


workshop

Center for Law and Public Affairs (CeLAPA) Vás srdečně zve na workshop na téma:

"Lidská práva, mezikulturní perspektivy a postnárodní kostelace"

Datum: 12. dubna od 13:30hod
Místo: Právnická fakulta UK v Praze, místnost 38.

Registrace: agha@ilaw.cas.cz

Program:

13:30 - 14:00 Úvodní slovo: Jiří Přibáň "Lidská práva z nelidskosti”

14:00 - 14:50 Lidská práva: mezi právem a politikou

- Jan Kysela “Lidská práva: triumf nad propastí?”

- Jiří Baroš “Kritika rights-talku a hledání alternativní tradice lidských práv”

- Ondřej Preuss “Lidská práva univerzální v čase i v prostoru?”

- Lenka Bezoušková “Možnosti a meze konceptu lidských práv v islámském právu”

15:00 - 15:50 Lidská práva a stát

- Harald Scheu “Demokracie, lidská práva a řízení podle čl. 7 Smlouvy o EU”

- Veronika Bílková “Role lidských práv v zahraniční politice ČR”

- Michal Šejvl “Proč začala Evropa mluvit o právech?”

15:50 - 16:20 Václav Bělohradský “Globální vesnice uniklých sdělení”

16:20 - 17:20 Ideje a ideologie lidských práv

- Ondřej Lánský “Lidská práva – legitimizační nástroj nebo emancipační projekt?”

- Pavel Dufek “Lidská práva a politická teorie: je možno myslet LP “neideologicky”?"

- Petr Agha “Hyper-realita lidských práv”


workshop

Centre for Law and Public Affairs (CeLAPA) vás srdečně zve na na workshop:

Kai Moller (LSE) Proportionality and the Global Model of Constitutional Rights, který se koná
v pátek 26. února v místnosti č. 38 od 10:00 hod na Prf UK

Program:

10:00 - 11:30

Keynote přednáška Kai Moller (LSE) (diskusant George Pavlakos (ÚSP AV ČR, University of Glasgow, School of Law) ) + diskuze

11:30 - 12:00

coffee break / neformální diskuze

12:00 - 12:40

Pavel Ondřejek: Balancing: Key Argument of Constitutional Review in the Age of Proportionality+ diskuze

12:40 - 13:00

Zdeněk Červínek: TBA + diskuze

13:00 - 13:30

Panelová diskuze

13:30

Neformální oběd

Proportionality and the Global Model of Constitutional Rights

Proportionality is widely considered to be the most important doctrine of constitutional law around the globe. But what is the point of the principle of proportionality? In my presentation I will argue that proportionality has to be considered in conjunction with the other features of what I have called ‘the global model of constitutional rights’: rights inflation, vertical as well as horizontal effect of rights, and negative and positive obligations, including social rights. The global model of constitutional rights is best explained as being concerned with the protection of every person’s autonomy: the point of rights is not to disable the state in certain ways, but rather to enable every person to live his or her life autonomously. Every person’s autonomy is limited by every other person’s equal claim to autonomy; hence, the point of state policies is to resolve conflicts of autonomy interests and to specify the spheres ofautonomy of equal citizens. Proportionality offers a useful structure that guides judges in their inquiry as to whether a given policy resolves a conflict of autonomy interests in a reasonable way.

Kai Möller is an Associate Professor of Law at the LSE. Before joining the Law Department in 2009, he was a Junior Research Fellow and previously a Lecturer in Jurisprudence at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. He holds M.Jur., M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford and a PhD in law from Freiburg University. He is also qualified for the German bar.

Registrace:

agha@ilaw.cas.cz.


Česko-Slovenské symposium

PRŮMYSLOVÉ VZORY A OCHRANNÉ ZNÁMKY

Pořádá Ústav práva a technologií Právnické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity ve spolupráci s Ústavem státu a práva Akademie věd České republiky a Ústavom práva duševného vlastníctva a informačních technológií Právnickej fakulty Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave

Datum a místo konání: 4. května 2016, Akademie věd ČR, Národní 3, Praha 1, sál 206

Odborný program:

13:30 - 14:00 registrace účastníků

14:00 - 14:30 zahájení

Josef Kratochvíl - předseda ÚPV ČR
Ľuboš Knoth - predseda ÚPV SR
Radim Polčák - vedoucí Ústavu práva a technologií MU
Ján Matejka - ředitel Ústavu státu a práva Akademie věd ČR

14:30 – 16:00 panelová diskuse na téma: Pravděpodobnost záměny ochranných známek
hlavní příspěvek přednese: Andrej Stec, referendář Tribunálu EU
V diskusním panelu zasednou: Zuzana de Korver (ÚPV ČR),
Tomáš Klinka (ÚPV SR), Jiří Macek (Vrchní soud v Praze)
Panelovou diskusi bude řídit: Zuzana Adamová (PrF TRUNI)

16:00 – 16:30 káva

16:30 – 18:00 panelová diskuse na téma: Výmaz/neplatnost průmyslových vzorů
hlavní příspěvek přednese: Ludmila Čelišová, člen Oddělení prohlášení neplatnosti průmyslových vzorů OHIM
V diskusním panelu zasednou: Jiří Sedláček (ÚPV ČR), Janka Boháľová (ÚPV SR), Karel Čermák sr.
(Čermák a spol. advokátní a patentová kancelář)
Panelovou diskusi bude řídit: Pavel Koukal (PrF MU)

Registrace: Zájemci o účast na symposiu se mohou přihlašovat prostřednictvím
sekretariátu Ústavu státu a práva AV ČR na tel. 221 990 711, případně na
adrese ilaw@ilaw.cas.cz. Účast je zdarma (kapacita sálu je omezena).

Organizační výbor: JUDr. Zuzana Adamová, Ph.D., JUDr. Pavel Koukal, Ph.D.,
JUDr. Ján Matejka, Ph.D., doc. JUDr. Radim Polčák, Ph.D.


Law and Public Policy PhD Workshop

CeLAPA (Institute of State and Law, Prague) ve spolupráci s Global School of Law (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon) pořádá

Law and Public Policy PhD Workshop

Datum: úterý 26. 1. 2016

Místo: Praha, Lisabon

PROGRAM

Coordination: Prof. Axel Gosseries

15h15-15h35 - Radek Píša, PhD. Candidate, Charles University Respondent: Armando Rocha

Why is constitutional review crucial in post-communist countries? Courts are usually perceived (and criticized) as counter-majoritarian institutions, concept coined by (Bickel 1986). Contrary to this, Gerald Rosenberg claimed that US Supreme Court is incapable to bring about social change, since it possesses no power to enforce it (Rosenberg 1993). Rosenberg’s work is one of the inspirational sources to Ran Hirschl, who considers modern politicians to be agenda setters for powerful judicial bodies. In his view, courts enforce largely unpopular economic policies on behalf of the politicians (Hirschl 2006). Hirschl connects this political arrangement with the rise of neoliberal economic policies, most prominently in Israel – where the introduction of constitutional review in early 1990s coincided with radical shift from left and Keynesian doctrines (Hirschl 1998). I would like to argue that he misses the fact that Israel’s society wasn’t actually liberal before this transition (I use liberal in this context simply as caring for rights). In my opinion, this arrangement parallels post-communist world: constitutional review emerging from the lack of genuine right-based discourse (and playing along with the politicians in their agenda as a secondary outcome). I would like to argue that this arrangement has proven itself to be dysfunctional. As a product designed to maintain certain privileges, yet lacking legitimacy gained from past mistakes (US model) or history (German model), the central European model of constitutional review was left without substantial independent function. This situation can lead to direct conflict (Hungarian and, currently, Poland), or the court can be filled with second-rank personalities (Slovakia).

15h35-16h55 - Tito Rendas, PhD. Candidate, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Respondent: Lucie Straková

“To infinity and beyond”? The duration of copyright protection Copyright-wise, the turn of the year has a special flavor. Since copyright protection expires at the end of the calendar year of the work’s last year of protection, every January 1st a number of literary and artistic works enter the public domain. 2016 greeted copyright-reliant industries with the expiry of copyright in Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and Anne Frank’s Diary in the European Union. Term expiry is, in fact, the most common form of loss of copyright protection. The existing term to the authors’ exclusive rights over their works is thus the intergenerational issue in copyright law.

My presentation will start with a brief tour through the history of the copyright term in the European Union and the United States. In this tour, I will make the trend of copyright term extension palpable. I will then try to show that such an extension lacks a plausible justification by countering the arguments that have been put forward in favor of longer copyright terms. I will argue, moreover, that the current duration of copyright protection is counterproductive: it harms creative production, instead of stimulating it, by limiting the number of works available in the public domain – works that the subsequent creative activity relies on. The public domain is a vital part of the copyright equation and should not be plundered without a robust justification. Absent such a justification, any future attempts to increase the term of protection should be rejected.

16h10-16h30 Lucie Straková, PhD. Candidate, Mazaryk University, Brno Respondent : Tito Rendas

Should non-commercial use on the Internet be excluded from the scope of copyright collective management societies? The presentation aims to provide some thoughts about relation of collective rights management and the possibility of granting a licence for non-commercial use. As new European directive on collective management of rights states, all the member states have to bring into their law specific provisions giving the right holders the possibility to licence their work for non-commercial use at the same time while they are represented by collective management society. The obligation to allow the author to grant a license for non-commercial purposes, even if the author is represented by a collective management society means that they have to overdo their current system and rethink their usual reluctance in case of author’s willingness of granting a non-commercial license. Nowadays in this case the author is facing a risk of penalisation by his collecting society. This provision is mostly targeted to online works so the question is whether managing this area by collecting society is appropriate and necessary.

This contribution will present examples of non-commercial licensing and then will try to respond the question, whether we actually need collective management societies for the non-commercial use on the Internet. I would like to defend the position that we don't need collective management societies for non-commercial licensing. It's economically ineffective, there might be a need for creation a huge evidence system, and also it would administratively demanding, although new directive wants the process to be as simple as possible for the author."

16h30-16h50, Armando Rocha, PhD. Candidate, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Respondent: Radek Píša

Private Actors, Climate Change and the Law of the Sea Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and certainly the most significant challenge for current marine environmental law. At the international level, several instruments and policies have been adopted but have failed to provide for a proper protection of the marine environment. The reason for this failure regards the “marine environmental tragedy” that States are living in: no one has an incentive to change its policies and behaviours unless others change theirs as well. One option (yet not sufficient per se) is to equip private actors with subjective environmental rights and specific mechanisms of enforcement of these rights. The virtue of bringing private actors into the fight for the preservation of the marine environment lies in the fact that they can more clearly articulate concerns with marine environment, since they are less concerned with short-term goals (as elections, or the state of diplomatic relations) and, as such, might be the most appropriate representatives of future generations.


nová e - kniha

Upozorňujeme, že Ústav státu a práva AV ČR vydal novou knihu Zdena Žáčková Viktor Knapp v Československé akademii věd Kariéra českého právního vědce Praha: Ústav státu a práva AV ČR, 2015. Knihu je možné si zdarma stáhnout na tomto webu v sekci "Vydané knihy".