Routledge Studies in Cultural Heritage and International Law
About the Book Series
International cultural law is a rapidly developing and extremely diverse field of study. Many lawyers are developing an interest in the field and many non-lawyers are starting to show interest in the law that affects their own areas of specialization. The interest in the subject area has been rising over the past two decades globally, as these issues affect every jurisdiction.
This book series welcomes proposals for monographs and edited collections that focus on cultural heritage and international law. It particularly welcomes proposals including interdisciplinary topics or adopting interdisciplinary approaches. it aims at publishing original, sound, and cutting edge works on emerging topics of worldwide relevance by both junior and senior scholars.
The primary users of the book series will be international law scholars, students and practitioners, as well academics and policy makers across public and private institutions. Scholars and students studying other disciplines such as art history, archaeology, war studies, museum studies and heritage studies would also be interested in the series.
Intangible Heritage Law and Cultural Diversity: A Comparative Approach
1st Edition
By Thiago Burckhart
November 24, 2025
This book explores the intricate relationship between intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and cultural diversity (CD), focusing on the challenges posed by integrating CD within legal and policy frameworks for ICH safeguarding. As groups, communities, and individuals increasingly advocate for the ...
Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Human Rights: Towards an Integrated Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Pineschi
May 27, 2025
The importance of cultural heritage - in both its tangible and intangible forms - to sustainable development and its economic, social and environmental components is increasingly evident in the recent practice of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations at the universal and regional ...
Restoring the Law of Restitution of Cultural Property: Complex Colonial Histories
1st Edition
By Christa Roodt
January 31, 2025
This groundbreaking book covers the restoration of the law of restitution of cultural property, matching the time, space, and depth dimensions of the law with the time, space, and ontology of events that violated persons and desecrated their heritage in the colonial era. Using the contested ...
Restitution of Cultural Property and the Law: Complex Colonial Histories
1st Edition
By Christa Roodt
December 02, 2024
This book adopts a novel approach to the social question of restitution and repatriation of sacred cultural property and heritage acquired unethically during the colonial era. It uses an approach premised on better integration of law, ethics, history, anthropology, and provenance research. To ...
Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage and the Law: A Research Companion
1st Edition
Edited
By Alberta Fabbricotti
September 09, 2024
The world has been shocked by the destruction of world cultural heritage sites over the past two decades, as seen in widely disseminated videos depicting events such as the demolition of the Buddhas of Bamiyan and the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. These acts are ...
Transboundary Heritage and Intellectual Property Law: Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage
1st Edition
Edited
By Patricia Covarrubia
May 27, 2024
Since the Intangible Heritage Convention was adopted by UNESCO in 2003, intangible cultural heritage has increasingly been an important subject of debate in international forums. As more countries implement the Intangible Heritage Convention, national policymakers and communities of practice have ...
Legal Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Perspectives from Indonesia and Malaysia
1st Edition
By Diyana Sulaiman
May 17, 2024
The book examines whether the protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) by Indonesia and Malaysia upheld the interests of the various communities from which the cultural heritage originates, and whether the laws recognise that cultural heritage is often shared with other states and ...
Regulating Transnational Heritage: Memory, Identity and Diversity
1st Edition
By Merima Bruncevic
January 29, 2024
There is a vast body of international and national law that regulates cultural heritage. However, the current regulation remains quite blind to the so called "transnational heritage". This is heritage where there is no community recognized in law that it can be directly attributed to and that can ...