CFP: Workshop on the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Municipal Law, April 5, 2019 @asilorg

From the American Society of International Law's Cultural Heritage and the Arts Interest Group (CHAIG) and Fordham University School of Law's Urban Center, in collaboration with the Quebec Society of International Law (SQDI), a Call for Papers for a Workshop on the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Municipal Law.


The workshop will be held at Fordham University’s School of Law, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on Friday, April 5, 2019. The protection of cultural heritage has long been understood as the province primarily of international law, but this workshop will highlight the place of municipal or local law in the discourse, exploring continuities and discontinuities with international law. Do international law and municipal law draw on each other’s strengths? Do they complement each other in terms of their shortcomings? Do they connect, or are they disconnected, in practice? While international law is addressed to nations, local governance is highly relevant to the protection of cultural heritage, and yet sometimes working in silos from other cities, provinces or states, as well as national governments.

Paper proposals of no more than 500 words should be sent to sabrina.tremblayhuet@usherbrooke.ca before Sunday, December 30th, 2018. The authors of the selected proposals will be notified by Friday, January 18th, 2019. Proposals from emerging scholars and graduate students are highly encouraged. Draft papers must be submitted no later than Monday, March 18th, 2019, for circulation to the selected participants in preparation for the workshop. Please note that no funding is available to cover transportation and accommodation for participants. Attendance at the workshop is, however, free of charge, subject to prior registration. Lunch will be provided to workshop participants.

More about the CFP here.

A Conference on Cultural Heritage Law at Georgetown University Law Center

Georgetown University Law Center is hosting the Intersections in International Cultural Heritage Law Center conference, March 29-30, 2016. Here is a description of the event from co-organizers Anne-Marie Carstens and Elizabeth Varner.

Speakers from across the world will address the primary points of intersection between cultural heritage law and international law, including international criminal law, the law of armed conflict, restraints on the illicit international trade in cultural artifacts, and international human rights. Professor Patty Gerstenblith (DePaul) will deliver a lunch keynote discussing the recent history of cultural heritage in Syria and Iraq. Sir Frank Berman (Oxford), with Professor Roger O'Keefe (UCL) as discussant, will deliver the concluding keynote on the Case Concerning the Temple of Preah Vihear (Interpretation) (Cambodia v. Thailand) decided in 2013 by the International Court of Justice.

To register, view the conference program, and find transportation and discounted hotel information, please visit the conference website.   The event is free, but advance registration is required. The conference website and program will be updated with additional details as they become available. The conference is co-sponsored by the Cultural Heritage & the Arts Interest Group of the American Society of International Law and by the Georgetown Art Law Society.