Cultural Property and Heritage law is an area where property law, international law, art law, heritage law and intellectual property law intersect. It concerns the repatriation and restitution of cultural objects; the illicit trade in antiquities; the return of human remains to source communities and nations; and the management of domestic archaeological and natural resources. This area of law began to develop as a separate discipline since the middle of the 20th Century and is now a site of increasing activity both in the UK and internationally.
Faculty
Dr Tatiana Flessas
Professor Dame Sarah Worthington
Research students
Michelle Hughes
Vittoria Mastrandrea
Reem Moustafa
Recent publications
- Luke McDonagh 'Exploring “ownership” of Irish traditional dance music - heritage or property?' International Journal of Cultural Property 29 (2022) 183-200
- Nick Sage 'Is Original Acquisition Problematic?' in Property Theory: Legal and Political Perspectives (James Penner & Michael Otsuka eds, CUP 2018)
- Tatiana Cutts 'Dummy asset tracing' L.Q.R. (2019) 135 (Jan) pp.140-165; first published as a working paper: 'Dummy asset tracing'LSE Law Working Paper Series 04/2018
- Charlie Webb 'Three concepts of rights, two of property' O.J.L.S. (2018) 38 (2) pp.246-269
- Tatiana Cutts 'Modern money had and received' (2018) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 38 (1) pp.1-25
- Joseph Spooner 'Seeking Shelter in Personal Insolvency Law: Recession, Eviction and Bankruptcy’s Social Safety Net' (2017) Journal of Law and Society 44 (3) pp. 374–405
- Tatiana Cutts 'Tracing, Value and Transactions' (2016) 79 The Modern Law Review 381
- Linda Mulcahy and Tatiana Flessas 'Limiting Law: Art in the Street and Street in the Art' Law, Culture and the Humanities (2016) pp.1-23
- Nick Sage 'Disgorgement - From Property To Contract' 66 University of Toronto Law Journal 244 (201
- Charlie Webb Reason and Restitution: A Theory of Unjust Enrichment (Oxford University Press: 2016)
- Charlie Webb 'The Myth of the Remedial Constructive Trust'Current Legal Problems (2016) 69 (1) pp.353-376 .
- Philipp Paech 'Securities, intermediation and the blockchain - an inevitable choice between liquidity and legal certainty?'LSE Law and Economy Working Paper Series 20/2015
- Tatiana Flessas 'The Ends of the Museum' (May 29, 2013). Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series No. 14/2013
- Charlie Webb Trusts Law 4th ed. (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) (with Tim Akkouh)
- Philipp Paech 'Market Needs as Paradigm: Breaking Up the Thinking on EU Securities Law' by Philipp Paech. Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, WPS 11-2012 October 2012 (published in Thévenoz, Conac and Segna, Intermediated Securities, Cambridge University Press, 2013)