Chechi, Alessandro.

The settlement of international cultural heritage disputes Alessandro Chechi - First editon - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. ©2014. - 1 online resource (385 pages) - Cultural heritage law and policy . - Cultural heritage law and policy .

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Cover -- CULTURAL HERITAGE LAW AND POLICY -- Copyright -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Instruments -- List of Abbreviations -- I Introduction -- 1. The Imperfect Nature of Cultural Heritage Law -- 2. Improving Dispute Settlement in the Cultural Heritage Realm -- 3. The Scope of the Analysis -- 4. Book Structure -- II Foundational Issues -- A. Understanding Cultural Heritage -- 1. Introduction -- 2. In search of a definition of cultural property -- 3. From cultural property to cultural heritage -- 4. The common heritage of humankind -- 5. From cultural heritage to cultural rights -- B. Defining the Sources and Typology of Cultural Heritage Disputes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is an 'international dispute'? -- 3. The actors at stake in the cultural heritage realm -- III Examining the Existing Legal Regime -- A. The Legal Framework -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Domestic legislation -- 3. The private international law dimension of dispute settlement -- 4. Dispute settlement through cultural heritage instruments -- 5. The law of State immunity -- 6. State responsibility and cultural heritage disputes -- B. The Available Means of Dispute Settlement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The settlement of cultural heritage disputes exemplified:the Altmann case -- 3. Adjudication through domestic courts -- 4. International judicial settlement mechanisms: an overview -- 5. Alternatives to judicial settlement -- C. A Step Backwards: Strategies for Dispute Avoidance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dispute avoidance through negotiation -- 3. Monitoring mechanisms -- 4. An appraisal -- IV Dispute Settlement in the Cultural Heritage Realm: Opting for Radical Reforms or for Enhancing Existing Dispute Settlement M -- Introduction: Cultural Heritage Dispute Settlement against the Background of Fragmentation and Proliferation. A. The Establishment of an International Cultural Heritage Court15 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Is an international cultural heritage court desirableand necessary? -- 3. Is there a reasonable chance of creating a newinternational court? -- 4. An appraisal -- B. The Settlement of Cultural Heritage Disputes through Cross-Fertilization -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cross-fertilization among adjudicators: what it is andwhere it comes from -- 3. Forms and methods of cross-fertilization -- 4. The actual affirmation of cross-fertilization -- 5. Cross-fertilization: a realistic assessment -- 6. The role of judges: is cross-fertilization a proper judicialfunction? -- V Cross-Fertilization and Common Rules of Adjudication in the Service of Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Taxonomy? -- Opting for Cross-Fertilization and Common Rules of Adjudication: The Emergence of a New Lex Specialis -- A. The Common Rules of Adjudication Corresponding to General Principles of International Law -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The obligation to protect cultural objects in the event ofarmed conflict -- 3. The prohibition on removing cultural objects in the event ofarmed conflict and the corresponding obligation of restitution -- B. The Common Rules of Adjudication Corresponding to Rules in Force or in Formation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The obligation to return cultural objects wrongfully removedin peacetime -- 3. The common rules of adjudication on the restitution andprotection of cultural heritage in peacetime -- C. Operationalizing the Common Rules of Adjudication -- 1. Two modest proposals -- 2. The International Association of Refugee Law Judges:a paradigm for UNESCO? -- 3. Multi-level cooperation in the resolution of culturalheritage disputes -- VI Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

International cultural heritage law has no set mechanism for dispute settlement. Disputes are settled through negotiation or through existing dispute resolution means: before domestic or international courts. This book offers a solution to the problem of the disparity this creates by advocating an evolution of the rules of the existing regime.

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Kulturgüterschutz
Streiterledigung
Weltkulturerbe

Cultural property--Protection--Law and legislation.



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