This book explores the objects, means and ends of international cultural heritage protection. It starts from a broad conception of cultural heritage that encompasses both tangible property, such as museum objects or buildings, and intangible heritage, such as languages and traditions. Cultural heritage thus defined is protected by various legal regimes, including the law of armed conflicts, UNESCO Conventions and international criminal law. With a view to strengthening international protection, the authors analyze existing regimes and elaborate innovative concepts, such as blue helmets of culture and safe havens for endangered cultural heritage. Finally, the ends of international protection come to the fore, and the authors address possible conflicts between protecting cultural diversity and wishes to strengthen cultural identity.

This book explores the objects, means and ends of international cultural heritage protection. It starts from a broad conception of cultural heritage that encompasses both tangible property, such as museum objects or buildings, and intangible heritage, such as languages and traditions. Cultural heritage thus defined is protected by various legal regimes, including the law of armed conflicts, UNESCO Conventions and international criminal law. With a view to strengthening international protection, the authors analyze existing regimes and elaborate innovative concepts, such as blue helmets of culture and safe havens for endangered cultural heritage. Finally, the ends of international protection come to the fore, and the authors address possible conflicts between protecting cultural diversity and wishes to strengthen cultural identity.

The 2nd edition of "Exercises in The Law of Nations" also seeks to impart case processing skills to students, in addition to the repetition and consolidation of substantive knowledge, because only substantive knowledge AND the ability to correctly use it in case resolution lead to written examination success. The book preliminarily presents the test that is commonly expected in written examinations for responsibility based on the law of nations, and largely follows the structures of the ILC Draft Articles on State Responsibility of 2001 in doing so. The theory thus communicated should be translated in practice by the readers into the subsequent (from now on) 21 exercise tasks of varying degree of difficulty. Written solutions are conducive to self-control. Written literature references, in particular to current developments, simplify the consolidation. An index of important international judicature rounds out the volume.