Cultural property in cross-border litigation : turning rights into claims / Mara Wantuch-Thole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wantuch-Thole, Mara, author.

Series:

Cultural property studies.

Schriften zum Kulturgüterschutz / Cultural property studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property--Protection--Law and legislation.

Cultural property.

Cultural property--Protection (International law).

Conflict of laws--Civil procedure.

Conflict of laws.

Judgments, Foreign.

Jurisdiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This thesis comparatively investigates into the cross-border enforcement of claims to misappropriated cultural objects initiated by states. It identifies and categorises sovereign rights in cultural property, and discusses the legal mechanisms to successfully implement these rights in foreign courts. The results may be used by government officials, museum officials, lawyers, art historians, archaeologists, art dealers, academics.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgments

Preface

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Sovereign Rights to Movable Cultural Objects

Chapter 3. Title to Cultural Objects under the Private Law of Finds

Chapter 4. International Law with Regard to the Recovery of Cultural Objects

Chapter 5. Choice of Law Methodology in International Cultural Property Cases

Chapter 6. Cross-Border Enforcement and Justiciability in a Comparative Perspective

Summary

Bibliography

Annex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 1, 2015).

ISBN:

9783110386608

3110386607

9783110355772

3110355779

OCLC:

908079562