Campfens, E: Cross-border claims to cultural objects

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6236-250-5
Verlag: Eleven International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 242 mm

Reihe: E.M. Meijers Instituut voor Rechtswetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Cultural objects have a protected status on account of their intangible value, as symbols of an identity. This has been so since the early days of international law, and today there is an extensive legal framework that ensures this protection. Yet, when it comes to claims by former owners to items such as Nazi-looted art, colonial booty, or more recently looted antiquities, the situation is less straightforward. On the one hand, such claims are often not supported by positive law at all. On the other hand, non-binding regulations urge present possessors to find `just' solutions to claims – not as a legal obligation but as a matter of morality. This raises a fundamental question: if we believe that the application of the law leads to injustice, is it not time to change the way the law is applied?

This study explores how cross-border claims to cultural objects fit in the wider legal framework, and where blind spots or clashes occur. It consists of seven chapters, five of which each dealing with different categories of claims that were published in international (cultural heritage) law journals. The overall aim of this dissertation is to identify new directions that can help further develop this field, with the ultimate aim of fostering just solutions.

This is a volume in the series of the Meijers Research Institute and Graduate School of the Leiden Law School of Leiden University. This study is part of the Law School’s research programme ‘Exploring the Frontiers of International Law’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campfens, Evelien

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Urheberrecht Kunst-, Musik-, Verlags- und Theaterrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Kommunal- und Baurecht Denkmalschutz- und Kulturgüterschutzrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Westeuropa, Südeuropa

Inhaltsverzeichnis

TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 PRIVATE TITLE CLAIMS; 3 THE INTERSTATE MODEL; 4 CLAIMS TO NAZI-LOOTED ART; 5 COLONIAL LOOTING AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ LOST HERITAGE; 6 CROSS-BORDER TRADE AND CLAIMS: A SYNTHESIS; 7 CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS; TABLE OF INSTRUMENTS; TABLE OF CASES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; OTHER RESOURCES; ANNEX: ORIGINAL SOURCES

Über Autor(innen)

Evelien Campfens is a cultural heritage law specialist and post-doc fellow at the Research Group ‘Museums Collections and Society’.