Subject of the Article is the interesting judgment of the Czech Supreme Administrative Court as of 20 May 2010 dealing with the interpretation of international treaties on social security. The judgment is remarkable for the scope of resources of international (or Community) origin of which it...

The Czech courts do often deal with transportation matters. For example the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic decided on 28 March 2012 about the Scope of the CMR Convention. The court concluded that the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR Convention)...

The applicable jurisdiction for insolvency proceedings, as provided by the Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 on insolvency proceedings, is the court of the Member State where the debtor's centre of main interest (COMI) is located (Article 3(1)). The Regulation, however, does not provide a...

International treaties therefore have priority over provisions of domestic origin (domestic lex arbitri). This mainly concerns two conventions, namely the New York Convention (1958) and the European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration (1961). In the field of international...

The article analyses the fundamental premises of the differentiation between substantive and procedural rules in private international law and arbitration. The author opens the paper with the general differentiation between substantive and procedural rules and the reasons for such...

Generally speaking, each individual jurisdiction has adopted its own approach concerning the rules on the determination of the governing law applicable in proceedings in international matters. In the international practice, arbitral panels usually distinguish four relatively autonomous areas...

Money laundering has become a phenomenon of financial market regulation. The obligation to identify the ultimate beneficiary, or the beneficiary owner, which need not be entirely synonymous terms, has been the focus for both national authorities and international organizations. However, such...

The “energy sector” is generally interpreted as referring to industries focused on the extraction, refining, transport, use of various forms of energy, and related research and associated infrastructure. Despite the fact that no law or regulation contains any general definition of the energy...