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This commentary examines the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (the UNESCO World Heritage Convention), fifty years after its adoption. It explores the new challenges which have arisen in the management of world heritage sites and the Convention's impact on the evolution of international heritage law.

This collection of essays examines the problem of securing access to justice in the enforcement of international human rights law. The perspectives included here include access to environmental justice, access to justice for torture victims, and access to justice before international judicial bodies.

The World Heritage Convention (WHC) is the most comprehensive and widely ratified among UNESCO treaties on the protection of cultural and natural heritage. The Convention establishes a system of identification, presentation and registration in an international list of cultural properties and natural sites of outstanding universal value. This article by article analysis of the WHC examines questions such as what is the meaning of outstanding un...

This Handbook provides a cutting edge study of international cultural heritage law, taking stock of the recent developments, core concepts, and current challenges.

The mission of the The Italian Yearbook of International Law is to make available to the English speaking public the Italian contribution to the literature and practice of international law. Volume XXVII of the Italian Yearbook of International Law features a Symposium on sanctions and restrictive measures in international law. There follows a Focus section on the ILC's work on the identification of customary international law. As in every vol...

The mission of the The Italian Yearbook of International Law is to make available to the English speaking public the Italian contribution to the literature and practice of international law. Volume XXVI of the Italian Yearbook of International Law opens with a Focus on international law in regional and domestic legal systems. The volume further contains articles on the controversy of Istria's cultural heritage, on the role played by human righ...

This collection of essays examines the problem of securing access to justice in the enforcement of international human rights law. The perspectives included here include access to environmental justice, access to justice for torture victims, and access to justice before international judicial bodies.

Cultural heritage property can be protected in a variety of ways, including at the international level, by enforcement in domestic courts, and through alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. This book sets out the legal framework applicable to cultural heritage and assesses how this works in practice, including in situations of conflict.

The conduct of armed conflict is increasingly being outsourced to private military and security companies, whose legal position remains unclear. This book identifies and analyses the human rights and humanitarian law framework applicable to these companies, examining how they can be held to account and how victims can obtain remedies.

This volume is the result of an ongoing research project on the Antarctic regime being carried out in various Italian universities, prompted by the increasing interest aroused in the region among the scientific community. This edition includes updated treatment of environmental protection.

This book is the first attempt at covering the most pressing legal issues raised by the impact of biotechnologies on different categories of international norms.

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What is the relationship between culture and human rights? Can the idea of cultural rights, which are predicated on the distinctiveness and exclusivity of a community's beliefs and traditions, be compatible with the concept of human rights, which are universal and 'inherent' to all human beings? If we accept such compatibility, what is the actual content of cultural rights? Who are their beneficiaries: individuals, or peoples or groups as coll...

This book follows and complements the previous volume Biotechnology and International Law (Hart 2006) bringing a specific focus on human rights.