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This study examines Feng Zikai’s essays from 1956 to 1965 as products of his attempts to come to terms with the social, political, and cultural situation of the era through writing literary pieces and essays. This anal...

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

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...

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

Population transfers during World War II caused the uprooting of millions of people (Displaced Persons) from their homes. Years of imprisonment in concentration camps, in forced labor or exile have left an indelible mark...

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Any attempt to reaffirm equality as a fundamental democratic value faces two tasks: it must respond to social and cultural changes accompanying the most recent phase of capitalist development, and it must reactivate the ...

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 EU legislator has modified once again the so-called Brussels 2 bis Regulation. The new regulation 2019/1111 adds new provisions on parental responsibility and child abduction, but leaves those on divorce largely unto...

The paper examines the forming of national academic communities in successor states and in the situation after the First World War when scholars (mainly those working in life sciences) participated in the scientific legi...

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...

One of the tools of self-regulation, which helps to settle a dispute between commercial counterparties from different states is international commercial arbitration. International commercial arbitration is an alternative...

This article synthetically discusses the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 2 March 2023 in case C-432/21. It aims to familiarise international readers with this issue, which might be a contributio...

Recenze: Michael Mann: The Sources of Social Power. Volume I: A History of Power from Beginning to A. D. 1760. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986/2007, 15th edition, 549 pp.

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, ...

Book review: Sató, D. Die Hallischen Schöffenbücher aus der zweiten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts und der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2018, 382 p.

The paper examines evolution of the opinions of the Slovenian public regarding cohabitation in socialist Yugoslavia before its breakup. Data from regular Slovenian sociological surveys from 1970s and 1980s and the design...

This essay is a study of self-appointed Czars, which is closely related to Russian political and historical traditions. In Russia, unique traditions of government existed, specific due to their use of historical referenc...

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 paper discusses the role of Czech (Czechoslovakian) intellectuals in the life of Roman Dyboski (1885–1945), professor of English philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Dyboski was one of just a few Po...

The article explores Jiang Menglin’s philosophy of life and his notion of rensheng guan (“view on life”) in the period between his studies in the USA and the year of the May Fourth events in 1919. In the first part...