Publisher's Synopsis
The collection of the contributions of the 13th Heidelberger Kunstrechtstag deals under the general theme "Looted Art and Restitution" with fundamental issues of restitution law, the protection of cultural property, art law and art procedural law as well as provenance research. Topics of this year: The art collector and the art law; Provenance - History and perspectives of a new paradigm in humanities and cultural studies; Works of art in the crosshair of the persecution of the Jews in the National Socialism; Why a "Restatement of Restitiution for Nazi-Confiscated Art?" on the example of escape goods; Intellectual property for traditional knowledge, traditional cultural forms of expressions and indigenous resources between post- and neocolonialism; Intellectual property and traditional art; Cultural assets from colonial times and restitution; The Bangwa Queen - Artifact or heritage?