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