Prof. Amnon Lehavi
Dean – Harry Radzyner Law School, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel
Co-President, Law Schools Global League (LSGL)
P.O. Box 167 Herzliya 4610101 Israel
Tel: +972 9 9602765
Fax: +972 9 9513075
Email: deanlaw@idc.ac.il ; personal email
Twitter: @ALehavi
Contribution & Ongoing projects
As a scholar working on property law, international economic law, law and culture, and law and globalization, Prof. Amnon Lehavi has long taken interest in the study of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention. For him, the Convention represents a paramount example of a legal instrument aimed at moving closer toward global (or at the least, supranational) governance of the proprietary aspects pertaining to the legal protection of cultural objects against theft, illegal export, and other forms of misuse.
Prof. Amnon Lehavi addressed the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention in detail in his book “Property Law in a Globalizing World” (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He did so not only in the context of cross-border norms on conflicting transactions and bona fide purchases, and the special case of artwork and cultural artifacts, but moreover, in examining the increasingly important work of UNIDROIT in promoting various globalization strategies in regards to cross-border property law issues. Accordingly, he has shown how alongside ‘soft law’ approaches, such as promoting model legislative provisions on state ownership of undiscovered cultural objects, UNIDROIT has been a leader in advancing ‘hard law’ strategies through binding conventions, such as the rules on restitution embedded in the 1995 Convention.
Prof. Amnon Lehavi is currently working on other projects pertaining to the 1995 Convention, such as a paper titled: “Due Diligence as the New Benchmark of Good Faith: Lessons from the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention.”