Ebook: Regionalism and Its Contribution to General International Law

The present monograph "Regionalism and its Contribution to General International Law" was written at the Institute of European Law and Department of International Law, Faculty of Law, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, as a part of the project (APVV-O823-11) carried out in 2011-2015, representing one of its final publication utputs. 

The main reason for choosing the topic was to evaluate regionalism in its various relationships and forms with respect to international law, and also to evaluate the place,importance and duties of international law in respect to the establishment and functioning of various forms of regionalgroups.

It is a fact that even though a lot of attention has been paid to regionalism, a more complex evaluation of the impact it has had on international law, and vice versa, is still lacking. The efforts of the present monograph are to partially eliminate this gap.

After giving a brief insight into how regionalism has developed, its content and terminology, the monograph studies in more details individual types of regionalism in the form of old and new regionalism, as well as treaty and institutional regionalism; its specifications and contributions to the international law.


About the authors

Prof. JUDr. Ján Klučka,CSc., Professor of International Law at  Law Faculty, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice  (Slovakia). Former judge of Slovak Constitutional Court  (1993-2004), Former Judge of the Court of Justice of  European Union (2004-2009), Member of the Venice  Commission for Democracy through Law (1993-2004),  Member of the Slovak National Group at Permanent Court of  Arbitration (since 1993). Author of more than 100  publications in Slovakia and abroad dealing with various  topics of public international law (international air and space  law, international law on human rights, environmental law  and European law). A number of expertises on the  constitutional justice issues has been elaborated within the  Venice Commission for Democracy through Law. Author of  textbooks on public and private international law as well as  European law.

JUDr. Ľudmila Elbert, PhD. is Researcher at the Institute of  European Law and Department of International Law at Pavol  Jozef Safarik University in Košice, Faculty of Law. Her areas of  interests are the Rule of Law in National Law and  International Law, international responsibility and rights of  individuals in International Law.