Nafziger, A.R. James; Paterson, Kirkwood Robert --- "Handbook on the Law of Cultural Heritage and International Trade" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) [2014] ELECD 271

Editor(s): Nafziger, A.R. James; Paterson, Kirkwood Robert

Title: Handbook on the Law of Cultural Heritage and International Trade

Series: Research Handbooks on Globalisation and the Law series

Topics: Cultural Heritage and Art Law; International Economic Law, Trade Law

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 25 April 2014

Number of pages: 672

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781007334

ISBN (soft cover): 9781783478897

EISBN: 9781781007341

Abstract/Description:

This Handbook offers a collection of original writings by leading scholars and practitioners in the exciting, rapidly developing field of cultural heritage law. The detailed essays are the product of a multi-year project of the Committee on Cultural Heritage Law of the International Law Association.

Following a comprehensive introduction to cultural heritage law, the book turns to the core topic of international trade. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and a 1970 UNESCO convention on illegal trafficking in cultural material formed the foundation for progressive development of an impressive and still-evolving legal framework. Building on these and other instruments, the essays focus on import and export controls within specific national legal regimes. Concluding chapters contextualize additional important issues – including human rights, pluralism and nationalism – from a broader, global perspective. Innovative in its combination of comparative and international dimensions of the subject, this book provides a ready, well-documented reference to national and international regimes of control and a scholarly source for teaching and further research.

Students, professors and practitioners of trade law, cultural heritage law and general international law will find this Handbook an invaluable resource.