La restitution des biens publics culturels aux États étrangers
La restitution des biens publics culturels aux États étrangers

Author: Charles Colomar

Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan

Published: 2022-07-06

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 2140270991

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Il n'existe à ce jour aucun texte légal en droit interne qui fait application de critères communs à la restitution de biens culturels. Chaque restitution se règle, au cas par cas, par le biais d'un accord bilatéral entre la France et l'État qui en fait la demande conduisant ainsi à une profusion de législations particulières à l'image de la loi de restitution de têtes maories à la Nouvelle-Zélande ou celle des biens pillés au Bénin et au Sénégal lors de la colonisation. La problématique des restitutions se limite souvent à des aspects de morale, de justice ou de diplomatie. Pour autant, le principal frein aux restitutions est juridique. Deux doctrines s'opposent à la possibilité d'un retour des biens culturels à leurs pays d'origine : l'approche propriétariste et l'approche domaniste. L'intérêt grandissant de ce sujet dans le débat public et l'apparition de nouvelles théories de droit international invitent à refondre le régime juridique de la restitution des biens culturels aux États étrangers.

Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

Author: Jiri Toman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1351908170

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At the request of UNESCO, Jiri Toman, Acting Director of the Henry Dunant Institute in Geneva has written this detailed analysis of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict - still the only universal legal instrument in this field. The author has used the materials that emerged from the preparatory work for the Convention and has taken numerous examples from UNESCO’s records about the application of the Convention in conflicts over the last 40 years to illustrate this article-by-article commentary on the Convention itself, the Regulations for its Execution, and its Protocol. The author establishes parallels with other international legal instruments such as the 1977 Protocols Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions or the other UNESCO conventions relating to cultural heritage and puts forward ideas for a more general study of the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict and the legal and practical ways of achieving this. This work should satisfy the expectations of politicians and those responsible for culture in the countries that are States Parties to the Convention, now numbering more than 80, and of those that are considering becoming parties to it, given the increasing calls being made for the international community to have greater powers to defend the cultural heritage from attacks to which it is too often exposed in armed conflicts today.

Cultural Property Law and Restitution
Cultural Property Law and Restitution

Author: Irini A. Stamatoudi

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0857930303

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This invaluable book, for the first time, brings together the international and European Union legal framework on cultural property law and the restitution of cultural property. Drawing on the author's extensive experience of international disputes, it provides a very comprehensive and useful commentary. Theories of cultural nationalism and cultural internationalism and their founding principles are explored. Irini Stamatoudi also draws on soft law sources, ethics, morality, public feeling and the role of international organisations to create a complete picture of the principles and trends emerging today.

De la restitution internationale des biens culturels aux XIXe et XXe siècle
De la restitution internationale des biens culturels aux XIXe et XXe siècle

Author: Xavier Perrot

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 675

ISBN-13:

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La masse hétérogène des biens culturels (monuments, objets d'art, objets ethnologiques, scientifiques ou d'intérêt religieux) est régulièrement menacée par des enjeux économiques et politiques qui priment sur leur contenu symbolique et identitaire. Certains d'entre eux peuvent être ainsi séparés d'un contexte d'origine signifiant, spatial et intellectuel.La question complexe de l'aire culturelle d'origine à laquelle ce genre de biens est historiquement et esthétiquement rattaché, invite à élaborer un statut juridique spécial pour ceux d'entre eux suffisamment important, dont la situation incite à déroger aux règles mises en place par le droit positif qui interdisent retour et reconstitution. De tels objets sont en effet, à la fois confondus dans un droit des biens englobant qui nie leur spécificité et dépendant d'un droit international qui, malgré les efforts mis en place pour réguler le trafic illicite et encourager la restitution, ne parvient pas à intégrer l'intérêt culturellement spécifique de ces derniers.Se nouent alors en la matière le rôle joué par la mémoire, l'Histoire, l'espace, mais également le temps et les impératifs du droit positif. La constatation de la lente émergence d'une spécificité juridique des biens culturels en deux siècles de mutation du droit de la restitution, trouverait ainsi à s'enrichir au contact de constructions et de concepts juridiques anciens, dont la permanence historique et la valeur paradigmatique autoriseraient l'utilisation. Les biens culturels isolés, dont les règles de droit positif figent le destin, pourraient ainsi regagner leur espace culturel d'origine à la faveur d'un droit vivant réactualisant son propre passé.

International Law, Museums and the Return of Cultural Objects
International Law, Museums and the Return of Cultural Objects

Author: Ana Filipa Vrdoljak

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-07-13

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 0521841429

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While the question of the return of cultural objects is by no means a new one, it has become the subject of increasingly intense debate in recent years. This important book explores the removal and the return of cultural objects from occupied communities during the last two centuries and analyses the concurrent evolution of international cultural heritage law. The book focuses on the significant influence exerted by British, U.S. and Australian governments and museums on international law and museum policy in response to restitution claims. It shows that these claims, far from heralding the long-feared dissolution of museums and their collections, provide museums with a vital, new role in the process of self-determination and cultural identity. Compelling and thought-provoking throughout, this book is essential reading for archaeologists, international lawyers and all those involved in cultural resource management.

Contested Holdings
Contested Holdings

Author: Felicity Bodenstein

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2022-02-14

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1800734247

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Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of processes of return that affect museums and collections, as well as notions of heritage and object status. Covering a range of case studies and a global geography, the authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.