Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage and the Law A Research Companion

1. The Intentional Destruction of the Cultural Heritage of Humankind: What Are the Remedies under International Law? Preliminary Considerations

Alberta Fabbricotti

Part 1. The (Re)Actions against IDCHH in the UN System

Section 1. The UNESCO:  Achievements and Shortcomings

2. State Responsibility for the Intentional Destruction of the Cultural Heritage of Humankind between UNESCO Rules and ARSIWA

 Patrizia Vigni

3. Sanctioning Cultural War Crimes: From the 1954 Hague Convention to National Legislations

 Lorenzo De Poli and Alberta Fabbricotti

4. The 2003 Declaration concerning the Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage: A Step Back?

 Federico Lenzerini and Angela Federico

5. The Italian/UNESCO Task Force and Other Initiatives

  Costanza Rizzetto

 6. Unpacking Expert Authority: The Case of Italy's Unite4Heritage Taskforce

  Jessica Wiseman and Raghavi Viswanath

 Section 2. The Relevance of IDCHH as a Threat against International Peace and Security

 7.The Security Council Resolutions addressing the Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage of Humankind

 Kristin Hausler

 8. IDCHH: What Role for UN Peacekeeping Operations?

  Laura Pineschi

 9. The UN Counter-Terrorism Committees and the Sanctions against Individuals

 Erkan Akdogan

 Part 2. The Reparation for IDCHH in the Jurisprudence of the Human Rights Courts

 10. The Preliminary Question of the Nature of the Rights infringed by IDCHH: Individual, Collective or Group Rights

Federico Lenzerini

 11. Cultural Heritage as a Human Right in Times of Peace and Conflict: Measures of Legal Protection

Leila A. Amineddoleh and Claudia S. Quinones Vila

 12. The “Victim” of  the Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage of Humankind and the Entitlement to Submit a Claim

  Ann Marie Thake

 13. Forms of Reparation after IDCHH and Avenues for Enforcement under Intentional Human Rights Mechanisms

Leonard Hammer

 Part 3. The Remedies under International Investment Law

 14. International Investment Law and the Protection of Cultural Heritage: Reconciling States' Obligations, Building Investors’ Duties

 Ludovica Chiussi Curzi and Niccolò Lanzoni

 15. The Avenues for Obtaining Redress for the Intentional Destruction of the Cultural Heritage of Humankind under the International Investment Law

 Valentina Vadi

 16. A Critical Analysis of Compensation in Investment Arbitration related to Potential IDCHH

 Victor Stoica

 17. Remedial Options after the Destruction of the Juukan Gorge Caves: A Lost Cause (of Action)?

 Edward Guntrip

 Part 4. The Punishment of the Destroyers under International Criminal Law

 18. Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage of Humankind as a War Crime: Which Effectiveness for the Current Legal Framework?

 Francesca Sironi De Gregorio

 19. The Intentional Destruction of the Cultural Heritage of Humankind (IDCHH) as a Crime against Humanity

 Kerstin von der Decken and Pablo Gavira Díaz

 20. The Al Mahdi Case between Erga Omnes Obligations and Right to Reparation: the International Community as a Victim or as a Donor?

 Elisa Ruozzi

 21. Rationales for the Protection and Destruction of Cultural Heritage: A Missed Opportunity for Clarification in the Case of Al Mahdi

Noelle Higgins

 22. The Collective Interest at the ICC: International Community as a Victim of International Crimes

 Alice Lopes Fabris

 23.The 2021 Policy on Cultural Heritage of the ICC: New Perspectives and Uncertainties of Criminal Justice

 Karolina Wierczyńska and Andrzej Jakubowski

 24. The Criminalization of the Intentional Destruction of Assets belonging to Humanity’s Cultural Heritage

 Chiara Venturini and Sophia Schiavon

 25. The Intentional Destruction of the Cultural Heritage of Humankind: What Are the Remedies under International Law? Final Considerations

Alberta Fabbricotti

Biography

Alberta Fabbricotti is Associate Professor of International Law at the Department of Legal and Economic Studies, Faculty of Law, La Sapienza University, Rome. She teaches International Law and EU Law. She is a member of the Teaching Staff Council for the doctorate in Public, Comparative and International Law, Programme in International Order and Human Rights. Alberta has published three monographs and many articles and essays in the fields of international economic law, international protection of human and peoples’ rights and refugee law. She headed and still is the director of several research teams under the funding of La Sapienza University. She also works as an expert reviewer for the EU Commission, Italian National Agency of University System and Research Evaluation (ANVUR), the Polish National Science Centre (NCN) for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) for the evaluation of research projects and results.