Product Description: This book examines contemporary approaches to restitution from the perspective of museums. It focuses on the ways in which these institutions have been addressing the subject at a regional, national and international level. In particular, it explores contemporary practices and recent claims, and investigates to what extent the question of restitution as an issue of ownership is still at large, or whether museums have found additional ways to conceptualise and practice restitution, by thinking beyond the issue of ownership...read more

In recent years controversial cases such as the so-called Elgin Marbles have prompted public debate on the return of cultural treasures to their homelands. In this fully revised and expanded third edition of her seminal work, first published in 2007, Jeanette Greenfield analyzes and discusses the historical, legal and political issues surrounding a wide cross-section of similar cases. Bringing the story up to date, this edition includes new chapters on wartime plunders, deliberately destroyed art and the return of ethnic art such as Australian aboriginal and Native American art. It also explores the palaeontological and marine archaeology issues at play and examines new approaches taken by museums when dealing with cultural objects and their return. Written in a highly accessible style with an interdisciplinary approach, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in cultural heritage, archaeology and anthropology, museums, art history and international law.

Product Description: Enrichment is key to understanding the law of unjust enrichment and restitution. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the concept of enrichment and its implications for restitutionary awards. The book argues that enrichment may be characterized as either factual or legal, and it explores the consequences of that distinction...read more

Product Description: The issue of returning art and cultural property removed from explored or conquered lands by Americans and Europeans is an unresolved problem. This book is about the return, or not, of works of art and antiquity taken during the Age of Imperialism and now held in museums and private collections...read more

Product Description: This book defines and explains the operation of the defense of change of position in Anglo-Australian law. It is a widely accepted view that the defense is a modern development, the first express recognition of which can be traced in England to the seminal decision of the House of Lords in Lipkin Gorman (a firm) v Karpnale Ltd...read more

Product Description: Several international mass claims programmes have recently been established to process individual claims arising from armed conflicts. These entities possess specific institutional and structural features allowing for an effective and efficient resolution of claims...read more

Product Description: Peter Birks's tragically early death, and his immense influence around the world, led immediately to the call for a volume of essays in his honor by scholars who had known him as a colleague, teacher, and friend. One such volume, published in 2006, contained essays largely from scholars within England...read more

Product Description: Private Law and Property Claims sets out a distinctive analysis of some general issues in private law, including the nature of categories such as contract, tort, property, duties, and liabilities as the basis of claims in private law, and the relationship between primary rights and remedies...read more

Product Description: Restitution for wrongs, or restitutionary damages, is the judicial award which compels the wrongdoer to surrender to the victim the benefit obtained through the perpetration of the wrong, independently of any loss suffered by the victim...read more

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Product Description: This volume is a unique effort to cover the topic of the restitution of housing and property in light of lessons learned in the Balkans, South Africa, East Timor, and in a range of other countries that have made the shift from conflict to peace.

Product Description: Restitution became increasingly important in the courts of the common law world during the 1990s and generated a great deal of attention and an explosion of literature on the foundations of the subject, its structure and underlying principles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Reunited-down under. Natasha Beale was horrified when her tour guide turned out to be Tom Scanlon-the man who'd jilted her. She would be spending the next two weeks alone with him, in the wilds of the Australian Outback...read more