The Czech Republic has a representative in the UN International Law Commission after more than ten years with the election by the UN General Assembly of Pavel Šturma to the post on November 17, 2011. The 34-member UN International Law Commission, established in 1947, is seated in Geneva, Switzerland. It exerts a strong influence on the development of international law. Last time the Czech Republic was represented on the commission was from 1992–1998. Professor Dr. Šturma works at the Institute of the State and Law of the ASCR and also heads the international law department at Faculty of Law at Charles University. He has written or co-written 12 books focusing on international law. and Jan Malíř.
Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi hosted in January a Session of the Union Académique Internationale (International Union of Academies). The federation is composed of national and international academies from more than 60 countries working in the field of Humanities and the Social Sciences. Its purpose is to encourage cooperation to advance studies through collaborative research and joint publications in those branches of humanities and social sciences promoted by the Academies and Institutions represented in the UAI which include philology, archeology, history, moral sciences and political sciences. Since 1919, the number of projects sponsored, supported or supervised by the UAI has steadily increased. From the first three projects (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Alchemical texts and Works of Grotius), the IUA came to the number of 76 projects. and Jiří Beneš.