Czech courts and the first 20 years of judicial dialogue in private international and procedural law

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Filip Vlček’s article in Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi offers a quantitative and qualitative study of all preliminary references on private international and procedural law made by Czech courts between 2004 and 2024. It states that Czech courts made sixteen such references in that period, making private international law the second most frequent subject of preliminary questions after tax law, and examines the activity of Czech judges, the distribution across levels of the court system, and the Court of Justice’s treatment of those references, including cases regarded as raising no new legal question and orders given where the answer was obvious.