Restoring the Law of Restitution of Cultural Property: Complex Colonial Histories - Paperback

by Christa Roodt (Author)

This book covers the restoration of the law of restitution of cultural property, matching the time, space and depth dimensions of the law with the time, space and ontology of events that violated persons and desecrated their heritage in the colonial era. It will be useful to researchers of cultural property law and heritage studies.

Author Biography

Christa Roodt is Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, UK. She specialises in the provenance and restitution of cultural heritage and acts as consultant on projects designed to achieve a more appropriate international regime for the protection and return of cultural objects removed from colonial, archaeological, and Nazi-era contexts. She is a serving member of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles.