The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: Before and After the 2001 UNESCO Convention (Publications on Ocean Development, V. 41) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9041122036 ISBN 13: 9789041122032

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff, 2003

Synopsis

The 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage represents a major step forward in the field of international law. New archaeological rules as well as a comprehensive co-operation system among the States concerned are set up by the new Convention. Despite the negative attitude assumed by few States at the moment of voting for the text of the Convention, this new international instrument is welcome by the great majority of States.

This volume focuses on the main aspects of the Convention. It is divided in two parts, to describe the situation before and after the adoption (and the forthcoming into force) of the Convention. In the first part the contradictions resulting from the regime established under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea are analysed together with the undesirable results of the application of the rules of admiralty (law of salvage and law of finds) to the underwater cultural heritage. In the second part the negotiation process is described, both in its general aspects (the myths surrounding the draft) and in its specific results (the drafting of each single provision).

About this title

About the Author:

Tullio Scovazzi is Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Roberta Garabello is Research Assistant in International Law at the same Faculty.
They both participated in the negotiations for the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, as legal experts of the Italian delegation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 9041122036
• ISBN 13: 9789041122032
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Garabello Roberta, Scovazzi Tullio