Cultural Heritage as a Legal Hybrid

Alicja Jagielska-Burduk, PhD, MBA, legal counsellor, UNESCO Chair on Cultural Property Law at the University of Opole. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the international journal Santander Art and Culture Law Review. She specializes in cultural management, encompassing the issues of participation and access to culture and cultural heritage. In the course of her research and legal practice, she has gained considerable expertise in the culture sector, including focus group analysis in relation to various stakeholders and groups of interest.In 2014, the government of Poland nominated her as a mediator at the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to Its Countries of Origin or Its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation. In 2020, she was selected as an arbitrator for the initial Arbitrator Pool of the Court of Arbitration for Art (CafA) in Hague. She is a member of the Polish National Commission for UNESCO.

• Cultural heritage as a legal hybrid. Between public and private law.- Cultural heritage. Legal concepts and protection Cultural heritage forms. Legal challenges.- Polish private law and cultural heritage.- A new approach to cultural heritage and the legal regime of common resources in Poland.- Cultural heritage protection in private law. In search of new solutions.