Congratulations to Eva Balounova who received the first prize in the category of doctoral theses with her work on Legal regulation of climate protection following the adoption of the Paris Agreement. Eva's thesis was successfully defended at the Environmental Law Department of the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. Josef Vavrousek Award is a Czech universities competition of qualification theses with topics related to the environmental protection, sustainability or human-nature relations. It bears the name of the Czech environmentalist, the first Czech Minister of the Environment after the so-called Velvet Revolution of 1989. Eva Balounova has been working for the Centre for Climate Law and Sustainability Studies (CLASS) of the Institute.