Dr Andrzej Jakubowski
Andrzej Jakubowski is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). He holds a PhD in International Law from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and MA in art history from the University of Warsaw. He is a current member of the ILA Committee on Cultural Heritage Law. In 2014, the government of Poland nominated him as a mediator at the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to Its Countries of Origin or Its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation. He is an editor Cultural Rights as Collective Rights – An International Law Perspective (Brill-Nijhoff 2016), and a co-editor (with Karolina Wierczyńska) of the volume Fragmentation vs. the Constitutionalisation of International Law – A Practical Inquiry (Routledge, 2016), and serves as a member of the editorial board of the Polish Yearbook of International Law and a theme editor of a new law journal Santander Art & Culture Law Review.
E-mail: andrzejjak@poczta.fm
Select Publications:
- State Succession in Cultural Property (OUP 2015)
- ‘Black Sea Tomb Raiders and the Practice of Global Cultural Exchange: Revisiting the Ethics and Responsibility of Museums’ 19 (1) (2014) Art, Antiquity and Law 75
- [with O. Jakubowski], ‘Export and Import of Cultural Property: Poland’, in R. K. Paterson & J. A. R. Nafziger (eds), Handbook On The Law Of Cultural Heritage And International Trade (Edward Elgar 2014) 305-53
- ‘Cultural Property under the Threat of Seizure: (Re)Defining the Limits of State Immunity in the Face of International Crimes’ 18(1) (2013) Art, Antiquity and Law 7
Sessions in which Dr Andrzej Jakubowski participates
Tuesday 7 June, 2016
This roundtable session engages with the relations between critical heritage studies and the law. From the definition of heritage down to specific safeguarding programs, the law influences heritage management, and heritage studies seems to overlook that influence. It also contributes to articulating connections to cultural identity, and structures around cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue. For the most part, these relationships between heritage studies and heritage law are fraug...
Sessions in which Dr Andrzej Jakubowski attends
Monday 6 June, 2016
As Canada shifts from a resource-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, small communities that were established to service the primary sector are faced with a complex and unique set of challenges. They are communities built on a culture of hard work, resourcefulness, and creativity; their residents are now tasked with developing strategies to deal with a lack of employment, depopulation and resettlement. Small is premised on the notion that leveraging the rich cultur...
Le patrimoine fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’attentions autant que d’agressions et de destructions. Cela peut s’expliquer par les difficultés de son identification ou de sa conservation. Cela peut plus profondément s’expliquer parce que, dès le départ, il célébre un événement ou conserve une mémoire qui peut être ou devenir une source de dissenssions et de conflits politiques. Enfin, sa reconnaissance suscite des gains économiques pour les uns mais des pertes pour les autres. Mais peut-être...
To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United States Chapter of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, this event will spotlight the iconic Sugar Shack, which is rooted from Quebec to New-England and which is both the place of maple syrup production and of friendly gatherings during the maple syrup season. In a festive atmosphere, delegates will be invited to taste one of the essential of...
Tuesday 7 June, 2016
While historical churches are being abandoned all over the Christian West, more and more places are growing the opposite way: pilgrimage sites are being enlarged and enhanced, whole urban districts are being developed with churches and temples boasting diverse, and often unorthodox, religious practices. Epistemologically linked to heritage, the sacred now seems to follow a path of its own, staging itself in new settings where the “religious heritage” refers mostly to common practices, however...