Cultural Heritage, Cultural Rights, Cultural Diversity

Silvia Borelli, Ph.D. (2004), State University of Milan, is Principal Lecturer in International Law and Director of Research at the School of Law, University of Bedfordshire.Federico Lenzerini is Professor of International Law and EU Law, University of Siena (Italy). He is Consultant to UNESCO, the Rapporteur of the ILA Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and a member of the ILA ‘Committee on Cultural Heritage Law’.

• ForewordTable of ContentsList of ContributorsSelect AbbreviationsTable of Conventions and International InstrumentsPART ITHE EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ON CULTURAL HERITAGE1.The Evolving International Legal Framework for the Protection of Cultural HeritageFRANCESCO FRANCIONIPART IIBEYOND TANGIBLE PROPERTY: CULTURAL DIVERSITY, INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS2.Cultural Diversity as a Human Right? General Comment No. 21 of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsLAURA PINESCHI3.Of Veils, Crosses and Turbans: The European Court of Human Rights and ReligiousPractices as Manifestations of Cultural DiversitySILVIA BORELLI4.Food as a Cultural Choice: A Human Right to be Protected?MARIA CLARA MAFFEI5.Human Rights and Illicit Trade in Cultural ObjectsANA FILIPA VRDOLJAK6.“Remedying Historical Injustice”: Ethical and Historical Considerations in ReturningCultural MaterialsROBERT PETERS7.The Tension between Communities’ Cultural Rights and Global Interests: The Case of the Māori MokomokaiFEDERICO LENZERINI8.The Definition of Intangible Cultural HeritageTULLIO SCOVAZZI 9.The Role for Communities, Groups and Individuals under the Convention for theSafeguarding of the Intangible Cultural HeritageSABRINA URBINATI 10.Culinary Traditions as Cultural Intangible Heritage and Expression ofCultural DiversityMARIA CLARA MAFFEI PART IIINEW DYNAMICS OF INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE LAW11.The Right to Recovered Underwater Cultural Heritage: The Neglected Importance ofArticle 149 of the UN Law of the Sea ConventionNICOLA FERRI12.The Merits of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater CulturalHeritageTULLIO SCOVAZZI13.Historic Shipwrecks and the Limits of the Exclusive Rights of the Flag StatePATRIZIA VIGNI14.The Dilemma of the Right to Ownership of Underwater Cultural Heritage: The Case of the “Getty Bronze”ALESSANDRA LANCIOTTI15.From Landscapes to Landscape: The Evolving Concept of Landscapein International LawAMY STRECKER16.Safeguarding the Human Dimension of Cultural Heritage through CooperationALESSANDRO CHECHI17.The Human Dimension of State Succession to Cultural Property: The Balkan LessonANDRZEJ JAKUBOWSKI18.Key Issues in the Relationship between the World Heritage Convention and ClimateChange RegulationOTTAVIO QUIRICO 19.Culture, Development and International Law: The Linkage between Investment Rules and the Protection of Cultural HeritageVALENTINA SARA VADI