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Flessas, Tatiana

Dr Tatiana Flessas  

Department

Position held

Department of Law

Associate Professor of Law

 

Experience keywords:

cultural property; heritage law; law and literature; law and social theory

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My research theorizes the under-theorized and emerging field of cultural property and heritage law. This field is composed of international conventions, national legislation, private law judgments in national courts, and disputes arising between museums, art dealers, purchasers, and auction houses. It spans the areas of public and private international law, public and private domestic law, museology, archaeology, and ethics: in short, it is a truly global and transnational area of scholarship and practice. Many of the commentaries in this field are limited to explanations of new conventions and cases, or prescriptive calls for regulation. There is less assessment and theorization of the values and social (and economic) structures that determine the proliferation of instruments and disputes in the field.

My work begins to create an infrastructure of interpretive rather than descriptive scholarship. I am regularly invited to present my work nationally and internationally on this basis. I have also developed and teach the first course in cultural property and heritage law offered in the LSE LLM, and the only course in this topic being offered at the University of London. I am part of a network of legal scholars in this area, spanning the UK, the US and the EU.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Construction and Property; Creative Industries and Culture; Law

Countries and regions to which research relates:

EU; UK; US

Languages:

Greek [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Basic]

Media experience:

TV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6077

LSE email:

t.flessas@lse.ac.uk

Publications

2016

Mulcahy, Linda and Flessas, Tatiana (2016) Limiting law: art in the street and street in the art Law Culture and the Humanities. ISSN 1743-8721

2013

Flessas, Tatiana (2013) The end of the museum LSE law, society and economy working papers, 14/2013. The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

2008

Holder, Jane B. and Flessas, Tatiana (2008) Emerging commons Social and Legal Studies, 17 (3). 299-310. ISSN 0964-6639

Flessas, Tatiana (2008) The repatriation debate and the discourse of the commons Social and Legal Studies, 17 (3). 387-405. ISSN 0964-6639

2007

Flessas, Tatiana (2007) The future will not stop escaping us Review of Law and Social Change, 31 (3). 661-670. ISSN 0048-7481

Flessas, Tatiana (2007) The repatriation debate and the discourse of the commons LSE law, society and economy working paper series, 10-2007. Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

2005

Flessas, Tatiana (2005) A house haunted by justice: Eichmann in Jersualem Law Text Culture, 9. 215-244. ISSN 1322-9060

2004

Murphy, Tim and Roberts, Simon and Flessas, Tatiana (2004) Understanding property law Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, Andover, UK. ISBN 9780421829305

2003

Flessas, Tatiana (2003) Cultural property defined, and redefined as Nietzschean aphorism Cardozo Law Review, 24 (3). 1067-1098. ISSN 0270-5192

2002

Flessas, Tatiana (2002) Sacrificial stone Law and Literature, 14 (1). 49-84. ISSN 1535-685X

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This book elucidates how the practices of the past have shaped the development and form of the modern law.

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Tatiana Flessas holds a BA in Philosophy from Wellesley College, a JD from Northeastern University School of Law, and an LLM and PhD from the London School of Economics. Before joining the LSE, she practised law in the US and taught at the University of Reading School of Law.

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