This volume offers a critical inquiry into the ever-evolving notion of cultural heritage and the way it has been made accessible, governed, and protected by the institutional, operational, and legal structures of the European Union.

Andrzej Jakubowski, Ph.D. (2011), European University Institute, is Assistant Professor at the Institute pf Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is the editor of Cultural Rights as Collective Rights: An International Law Perspective (Brill/Nijhoff, 2016).

Kristin Hausler is the Dorset Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London. Previously, she worked on a repatriation project at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver.

Francesca Fiorentini, Ph.D. (2004), University of Trento, is Associate Professor in Comparative Law at the University of Trieste. Her main research fields include: comparative and European law, comparative secured transactions law, comparative cultural property law; European private Law.