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Author: Francesco Francioni

About the Author: Francesco Francioni studied law at the University of Florence and at Harvard University, where he obtained a master’s degree in 1968. He was a professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Siena from 1980 to 2003 where he directed the International Peace Studies Centre and the Jean Monnet Chair in European law (1999-2003). Since 2003, he has been a professor at the European University Institute in Florence. His first contacts with World Heritage date back to 1992, when he was hired by the Italian and French governments to provide legal advice on the proposed autonomy of the new World Heritage Centre. He subsequently attended World Heritage Committee meetings from 1993 to 1998 as legal counsel for the Italian delegation, and was Chairman of the 21st session of the Committee in 1997 in Naples. During his tenure, he traveled to Kakadu National Park, Australia, to assess the potential impacts of the Jabiluka Mine on the World Heritage site. A specialist in international cultural heritage and human rights law, Francesco Francioni has been involved in several UNESCO cultural conventions. He played a leading role in the drafting of the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. He also chaired the UNESCO meeting of experts held in Turin in 2001 to define the concept of intangible heritage in the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of 2003. He is a prolific author, and has notably published The 1972 World Heritage Convention: A Commentary (2008) and Enforcing International Cultural Heritage Law (2013), both at Oxford University Press.

The Oxford Handbook of International Cultural Heritage Law book pdf download By Francesco Francioni

This Handbook provides a cutting edge study of the fast developing field of international law on the protection of cultural heritage by taking stock of the recent developments and of the core concepts and current challenges. The legal protection of cultural heritage has come under renewed focus from the international community and states since the 1990s. This is evidenced by the adoption of a range of international instruments. Countries are also enacting cultural heritage legislation or overhauling existing laws within their own national territory. Contributions address the protection of immovable and movable, tangible and intangible cultural heritage in peacetime and in the event of armed conflict as well as the interaction between specific regimes of cultural heritage protection with other fields of international law, including international criminal law, human rights and humanitarian law, environmental law, international trade, investments, and intellectual property. The last part of the Handbook covers diverse regional systems of heritage protection.

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