Research Handbook on Art, Culture and Heritage Law

This interdisciplinary Research Handbook brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore art, culture and heritage law, their definition, protection and contestation. It critically assesses legal frameworks and ethical practices through four challenges: sustainable development, intergenerational equity, decolonisation and cultural rights. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Eds. Sophie Vigneron, Janet Ulph and Antoinette Maget Dominicé

The book has six parts:

  • Concepts
  • International frameworks
  • International conventions
  • Dometsic persepctives
  • Art trade
  • Restitution and return

 

The part on Restitution and Return has the following chapters:

  • ADR and the Indigenous repatriation claim – Debbie De Girolamo
  • Cross-border restitution – Evelien Campfens
  • The return of cultural objects – Kristin Hausler
  • To share or not to share? Shared heritage in the post-colonial context – Marie-Sophie de Clippele
  • Digital activism as tool for the return of cultural objects – Emiline Smith
  • Restitution beyond the object – Andrea Wallace, Francesca Farmer and Mathilde Pavis