The fourth volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) presents nine new articles offering scholarly insights into a variety of legal issues, with a special focus on the countries of Southeast Europe. All six articles in the special section reflect the authors' efforts to untangle difficult questions concerning family property in private international law. Addressing a range of topics, leading national experts in the respective areas discuss Bosnian and Herzegovinian, Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian and Turkish law.

In turn, the general sections on European law and international law include three articles on diverse topics in private and public law, from a fresh take on the legal and practical effects of Brexit over EUTMs, and the legal nature of cryptocurrencies in different jurisdictions, to difficulties establishing the rule of law in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Particularly focuses on issues of family and succession in private international law Provides an exhaustive annual review of cases and trends in European and international law across the Balkans Explores contemporary issues in various fields of European and international law

Autorentext

Ivana Kunda, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law, Croatia

Zlatan Meki , Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Enis Omerovi , Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Duan V. Popovi , University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, Serbia

Inhalt

1. Portugal and Iceland: Foreign policy constructed by smallness?.- 2. Portugal, the European Union and Shelter Theory.- 3. A Reluctant European: Iceland and European integration.- 4. Portugal and NATO: enduring alliance or necessary shelter?.- 5. The Small State and the Superpower: Iceland's Relations with the United States.- 6. Iceland´s Relations with the Nordic States.- 7. Portugal's contemporary relations with Africa: a limited shelter?.- 8. Sino-Icelandic Relations.- 9. The many shades of shelter: Portugal and Iceland´s quest for political, economic and societal shelter.