32503 - LAW AND THE ARTS

Contenuti

• Notions of principles of law (legal rule, legal systems, property regimes)
• Definition of cultural heritage, cultural good, cultural object, cultural property
• The Cultural Heritage Protection in the international and EU legislation
• The Cultural heritage circulation in the international and EU legislation
• National Cultural Heritage policies and laws
• Repatriation and restitution disciplines

 

 

Testi/Bibliografia

Slides will be sent before the beginning of the Course to integrate and support the following readings:

Compulsory reading:

C. Forrest, International Law and the Protection of Cutlural Heritage, Routledge, 2010: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8

Voluntary readings

D. Gillman, The idea of cultural heritage, Cambridge University Press, 2010, part I, ch. 1 and 2 (pp. 9-62); part. III, ch. 5 (pp. 141-173)

J. A. R, Nafziger, R. Kirkwood Paterson, A. Dundes Renteln, Cultural law, Cambridge University Press, 2010, sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6

 

 

Metodi didattici

Frontal lessons

Class discussions on cases

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Attendance of at least 70% of lectures is compulsory. Students who will not comply with this prescription, will have to attend the Course again the following academic year. Exceptions are allowed in extraordinary cases (ex. illness) and must be previously agreed with the instructor who will assign further materials

Assessment methods:

1) Students are required to prepare 4 written essays (of no more than 1500 words excluding footnotes and bibliography). The essays will be on topics previously discussed during lectures. The handing out of the essays will be decided at the beginning of the lectures.

2) Written exam consisting in the solution of a case. Students will be given 2 hrs to complete the test

The final grade will be based upon:

20% class participation

40% on the written papers 

40% on the final written exam which will consist on the solution of  case.

Class participation is assessed taking into account the following criteria: (i) attendance (ii) punctuality; (iii) participation and involvement in the class discussions.

Cheating on attendance or during the written test and plagiarism in the drafting of the papers will affect the final grade. 

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Legislation and cases analysis

Orario di ricevimento

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