The 2003 UNESCO Intangible Heritage Convention: A Commentary

ISBN-13: 9780198824787 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 560 str.

Janet Blake; Lucas Lixinski

Recenzje

Overall this commentary constitutes a highly valuable addition to the legal literature on ICH safeguarding. It is an essential reference for understanding the inner workings of the 2003 Convention and the first fourteen years of its implementation.

O autorze

Janet Blake is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Shahid Beheshti in Tehran. Since 1999, she has worked closely with UNESCO on the development and drafting of the 2003 Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention and acted as Rapporteur to the two Restricted Drafting Group meetings that developed the First Preliminary Draft of the Convention in 2002. She co-authored the recent review on the implementation of Intangible Heritage Convention for UNESCO. She is the author of International Cultural Heritage Law(OUP) and Commentary on the UNESCO 2003 Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage(ILA, 2006). Lucas Lixinski is Associate Professor at Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney. He holds a PhD in International Law from the European University Institute. He is the author of Intangible Cultural Heritage in International Law (OUP 2013) and International Heritage Law for Communities: Exclusion and Re-Imagination (OUP 2019). He is Rapporteur of the International Law Association Committee on Participation in Global Heritage Governance.