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The article analyses a selected text of the travelogue of Czech nobleman and humanist Christopher Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice (1564–1621). Harant’s information on the ancient Roman custom of punishing debtors ...

Durability and stability of law are values always considered to be inherently connected with principles of good lawmaking. The main reason for this understanding is that they are condition for fairness of law and equalit...

The current article introduces the issue of race and racism in the United States of America with focus on two specific contemporary concepts that have a big attention and have formed the discussion in the last years. The...

Book review on DOSTALÍK, P. Majetková ochrana ženy po smrti manžela v římském právu. Praha: Leges, 2023, 132 s.

Book review: David Remnick: Král světa: Vzestup a pád Muhammada Aliho. Praha: XYZ, 2016, 432 s.

David Vopřada. Kněžství v prvních staletích církve I. 1.–3. století [Das Priestertum in den ersten Jahrhunderten der Kirche I. 1. bis 3. Jahrhundert]. Praha: Krystal OP 2018, 256 S. ISBN 978-80-7575-033-4

Book review: Dennis Smith: Civilized Rebels. An Inside Story of the West’s Retreat from Global Power. London: Routledge, 2018, 216 s.

The use of renewable energy is one of the priorities of common EU policies to achieve carbon neutrality and mitigate the effects of climate change. On the other hand, the protection of biodiversity, which also contribute...

The first attempt of the GDR to enact a new Civil Code started in September 1952 and failed with the revolution in June 1953. The old laws were thought to disturb the consolidation of socialist legal order and hinder the...

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The paper presents the typical course of education, life journeys, and careers of professors of theology and law based on selected Viten (Vitae, biographies) from an early-modern collection of biographies by the Heidelbe...

The sacrament of reconciliation faced a crisis in the past decades. Many Catholics refuse clerical control of their own conscience, experience the sacrament as formal and legal, and cope with the difficulty in thinking a...

Book review: HÁJKOVÁ, D. – HORÁK, P. – KESSLER, V. – MICHELA, M. (eds.). Sláva republice! Oficiální svátky a oslavy v meziválečném Československu. Praha: Academia – Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, 2...

Juraj Šuch, Jan Horský (ed.): Narace a (živá) realita. Praha: Togga, 2012, 112 str.

The article presents the current state of knowledge regarding the use of analogy in domestic jurisprudence, with the aim of outlining its place and role in the process of finding the law. The performed analysis makes it ...

The legal regulation of the liability of civil servants for damage caused by them to the civil service contained in Act No. 234/2014 Sb., on the Civil Service, as amended, directly refers to Act No. 262/2006 Sb., the Lab...

This article explores selected aspects of narrative expression of identification with social entities in Holocaust survivors’ oral history testimonies, including the related conflicts of identities. In its empirical di...

This article examines the question of the participation of students from Poland and Lithuania in the academic life in Basel from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Because the article is a prosopographic study, ...

Given the extent and state of surviving source materials, it is rather difficult to satisfactorily document the involvement of women of Jewish origin in academic education and their subsequent careers in science and prac...

The contribution deals with the use of electronic tools for investigating the transfer of authorial style in literary translation. It first introduces a method of sentence length analysis of source texts and target texts...

This article focuses on the concepts of pain at different times and in different disciplines. It presents approaches to understanding both within hermeneutics and in the field of ethics. These points are further connecte...

The paper deals with the environmental damage caused during the war in the Gaza Strip. The issue is mainly examined from the perspective of the international humanitarian law. The war in Gaza is perceived as an internati...

The article deals with the status of natural and legal persons, who are as the addressees of public administration one of the subjects of administrative-law relationship. In the introduction, the legal position (status) ...

The symposium on overcoming modernity (kindai no chōkoku) that took place in Tokyo in 1942 has been much commented upon, but later critics have tended to over-emphasize the wartime political context and the ideological ...