Get Involved

Participation in the Academic Project is open to:

• universities holding cultural heritage law or similar classes, art law, art market, trade law, administrative law, international private law, international public law with a focus on the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention and other relevant instruments;
• other research or institutional partners: international and national organisations researching and working in the field of the international protection of cultural property;
• private and public sector groups and individual experts with an interest in the area.

Partners play an important role in promoting UNIDROIT’s activities and raising awareness on the major issues related to the illicit trafficking in cultural property worldwide. Partnership is granted on the basis of an expression of interest and proven participation in the advancement of the objectives of the Academic Project.

DOWNLOAD AND FILL IN THE PARTNERSHIP FORM AND SEND IT TO: info@1995unidroitcap.org

Contributions from Partners (either individual person(s) or organisations) may, for example, be in the form of the following:

• information on academic courses, expert meetings, workshops, training sessions to strengthen the understanding of country, regional and global legal issues in this field and/or on initiatives of legislative and regulatory domestic reform, or the preparation of instruments to be used in practice;
• contribution to the Academic Project information Platform by sharing knowledge products (e.g., studies, databases, training material, etc.) and updates in specific areas of national relevant legislation.

Institutional Partners 

European Students’ Association For Cultural Heritage (ESACH)

Law Schools Global League (LSGL)

 

Argentina

• Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (UNICEN), Argentina

Australia

• University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Brazil

• Federal University of Paraiba, UFPB, Brazil

China

• China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China

Hungary

• Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary

Italy

• Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
• Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
• ARCA

Netherlands

• Maastricht University, Netherlands 

Poland

Individual Partners 

• Professor Lynda Albertson (ARCA Chief Executive Officer)

 

• Dr. Katalin Andreides (Independent Researcher, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary)

 

• Ms Milica Arsic (University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia)

 

• Ms Darya Bohdan (Belarusian State University, Belarus)

 

• Mr Samuel Bologna (PhD Candidate, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France)

 

• Professor Celia M. Caamiña Domínguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

 

• Professor Evelien Campfens (Leiden University, The Netherlands)

 

• Professor Luis Javier Capote Pérez (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)

 

• Professor Cristiana Carletti (Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy)

 

• Dr. Alessandro Chechi (UNESCO Chair Senior Researcher, University of Geneva, Switzerland)

 

• Ms Emma Cleary (PhD Student, Université de Perpignan, France)

 

• Professor Maria-Luz Endere (Researcher at CONICET, Argentina)

 

• Professor Derek Fincham (South Texas College of Law Houston, Texas, USA)

 

• Dr. Francesca Fiorentini (University of Trieste, Italy)

 

• Professor Gareth Fletcher (Kingston University, London, United Kingdom)

 

• Mr Nicolò Giordana (Lawyer, Turin, Milan, Italy)

 

• Ms Henriette Küffer (Public Prosecutor, MLaw et M.A., Zurich, Switzerland)

 

• Professor Marcilio Toscano Franca Filho (Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil)

The thematic edition of the Brazilian Journal of International Law, dedicated to Art Law and Cultural Heritage Law, is a special volume, celebrating the 25 years of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention and the 50 years of the 1970 UNESCO Convention. This issue has the participation of important Brazilian and foreign jurists and was edited by Prof. Marcilio Toscano Franca-Filho and Prof. Ardyllis Soares (Brasília).

The journal can be read and downloaded at https://www.publicacoesacademicas.uniceub.br/rdi/issue/view/AL

 

• Professor Manlio Frigo (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

 

• Professor Patty Gerstenblith (DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA)

 

• Ms Maria Goretti Tai (LL.M. 2020, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

 

• Dr. Amoury Groenen (PhD researcher, Maastricht University, NL)

 

• Professor Zhengxin Huo (China University of Political Science and the Law, Beijing, China)

 

• Professor Amnon Lehavi (Dean, Harry Radzyner Law School, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel

 

• Prof. Hao Liu (Associate Professor Dr., Institute of International Law, School of Law, Shandong University)

 

• Mr Geo Magri (Research Fellow, University of Turin, Italy)

 

• Dr Francesca Maria Montanari (Trainee Lawyer in Art and Cultural Property Law, CMB & PARTNERS STUDIO LEGALE (Law Firm))

 

• Ms Susana Monteiro (Lawyer and Legal Assistant, Coimbra, Portugal)

 

• Professor María Julia Ochoa Jiménez (Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the Universidad Loyola (Spain)

 

• Ms Irina Olevska (Lawyer, Riga, Latvia)

 

• Honorary Professor Patrick O’Keefe (University of Queensland, Australia)

 

• Ms Vanja M. Pavićević (PhD Candidate, University of Belgrade, Serbia)

 

• Honorary Professor Lyndel Prott (University of Queensland, Australia)

 

• Professor Marc-André Renold, (Faculty of Law, UNESCO Chair, University of Geneva, Swtizerland)

 

• Professor Sebastián Rivero Silva (Attorney-At-Law & Law Professor, Business and Administration School of the European University Miguel De Cervantes, Spain)

Technical Report on the Model Clauses for the Legal Purchase and Sale of Cultural Assets

 

 

• Professor Arthur Salomons (Centre for the Study of European Contract Law, University of Amsterdam, NL)

 

• Dr Emiline Smith (Lecturer in Art Crime and Criminology, University of Glasgow)

 

• Ms Marta Suárez-Mansilla (Lawyer, Artworld Law / UNED / ADA-Association of Art Law, Spain)

 

• Professor Dr Tamás Szabados (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)

Lecture by Professor Tamás Szabados, The Conflict of Laws Dimension of Cultural Property Disputes, in Particular with regards to Art Collections (on Thursday 3 February 2022 )

 

• Ms Raveena M. Tamoria, (Lawyer and Research Fellow, Global Center for Development Law and Policy, Lawyer’s Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation)

 

• Dr Sophie Vigneron (Reader in Law, Co-director Centre for Heritage, University of Kent, United Kingdom)

 

• Professor Ana Filipa Vrdoljak (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

 

• Professor Dr Matthias Weller (EBS University of Economics and Law, Wiesbaden, Germany)

 

• Professor Kamil Zeidler (University of Gdańsk, Poland)

 

Leading partners contribute with information on ongoing projects and activities to disseminate/promote/use the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention and/or the 2011 UNESCO-UNIDROIT Model Provisions and generally strengthen the legal environment for protection of cultural objects and in particular restitution and return, such as

• provide active support by carrying out courses, seminars, research projects, events, etc. specific to the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention and its relations with other related instruments;
• documentation consisting in studies/research and publications including translations of relevant documents – especially the 1995 Convention and its explanatory report – into country languages for wider dissemination;
• organise contests relating to students’ work and finance a scholarship at UNIDROIT for the “winner” to work on the subject;
• take turns in hosting the Annual Conference.  The Conference is hosted each year by a different Leading partner to the Academic Project.

Leading partners’ activities, including courses and seminars, are given particular advertisement on the Academic Project’s website. The works of deserving students from Leading partner institutions may be published on the website, under the section Students’ Papers.

 

 

Sponsors may contribute through a direct grant to the UNIDROIT Secretariat or by contract agreements with partners.The terms and conditions of specific contributions will be agreed on a case-by-case basis.

To become a sponsor, please contact: info@1995unidroitcap.org

Contact the Academic Project website administrators for further information.

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