The 1970 UNESCO and 1995 UNIDROIT Conventions on Stolen or Illegally Transferred Cultural Property: A Commentary

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Ana Filipa Vrdoljak is the UNESCO Chair in International Law and Cultural Heritage and Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. Professor Vrdoljak is a Correspondent (Pacific region) and Member of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention Academic Project of International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). With Francesco Francioni she is the editor of the Oxford Commentaries on International Cultural Heritage Law and the Cultural Heritage Law and Policy series. She is President of the International Cultural Property Society (U.S.) and Chair of the Management Committee International Journal of Cultural Property (Cambridge University Press). Professor Vrdoljak is a consultant to multilateral organisations governments and civil society organisations on cultural heritage law human rights law and international law. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy (in Law) from the University of Sydney. Andrzej Jakubowski holds PhD in International Law (EUI 2011) and MA in Art History (University of Warsaw 2005). Affiliated with the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw he served as Chair of the ILA Committee on Participation in Global Cultural Heritage Governance (2017-2022). A member of the Pool of Arbitrators at the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA) he is also enlisted among the mediators and conciliators of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Return and Restitution Committee (ICPRCP). He has published extensively on issues related to cultural heritage law and cultural rights in International and European law. Alessandro Chechi (PhD European University Institute LLM University College London) is Senior lecturer at the University of Geneva. He also teaches at the Université Catholique of Lille and at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He serves as a member of the editorial boards of the Italian Yearbook of International Law and of the Santander Art and Culture Law Review and is a member of the Société international pour la recherché sur le droit du patrimoine culturel et le droit de l'art (ISCHAL). He was consultant for the Council of Europe for the revision of the Convention on Offences Relating to Cultural Property and is the author of the book 'The Settlement of International Cultural Heritage Disputes' (Oxford University Press 2014).