International Cultural Heritage Law in Armed Conflict

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of treaties and other legal instruments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Issues in the Field -- 1.1 Lack of Clarity -- 1.2 Lack of Coherence -- 1.3 Reciprocity versus Atomization of the Rules -- 1.4 Destruction during "Peacetime"--1.5 Revisionism and Idealism -- 2 Contribution to the Field -- 2.1 A Coordinated Approach -- 2.2 Identifying International Cultural Heritage Law -- 2.3 Discovering Principles Specific to the Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict -- 2.4 Analyses of Current Conflicts -- 3 Some Caveats Regarding Scope -- 4 Chapter Summary -- 1 Two Wrong Ways of Thinking about the Legal Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict -- 1 Revisionism -- 1.1 The 1907 IV Hague Regulations -- 1.2 The 1954 Hague Convention -- 1.3 The Two Additional Protocols of 1977 -- 1.4 The 1999 Second Protocol -- 1.5 The 2003 UNESCO Declaration -- 1.6 Final Remarks -- 2 Idealism -- 2.1 The Effect of the ICTY and ICC Statutes on the 1954 Hague Convention -- 2.2 The ICTY Case Law and the 1954 Hague Convention as Customary International Law -- 2.3 The Erga Omnes Nature of Cultural Heritage Obligations -- 2.4 The Human Dimension of Cultural Heritage Law? -- 3 Conclusion -- 2 The Systemic Approach -- 1 The Search for a Branch of International Law -- 1.1 Systematization and the Problem of Identity -- 1.2 How Can We Identify a Branch of International Law? -- 1.3 Principles and Telos -- 1.3.1 The Concept of Principles and Method of Individuation -- 1.3.2 The Telos: The Systemic Objective -- 2 International Cultural Heritage Law -- 2.1 Preliminary Considerations -- 2.2 The Principle of Prevention -- 2.3 The Principle of Relative Interest -- 2.3.1 Cultural Property or Cultural Heritage