Cultural Rights as Collective Rights

Collective cultural rights are commonly perceived as the most neglected or least developed category of human rights. Cultural Rights as Collective Rights – An International Law Perspective endeavours to challenge this view and offers a comprehensive, critical analysis of recent developments in distinct areas of international law and jurisprudence, from every region of the world, in relation to the scope, legal content, and enforceability of such rights.

Leading international scholars explore the conceptualisation and operationalisation of collective cultural rights as human rights, encompassing community rights, and discuss the ways in which such rights may collide with other, mostly individual, human rights. As such, Cultural Rights as Collective Rights – An International Law Perspective offers a cross-cutting and original overview on how the protection, recognition and enforcement of collective cultural rights affect the development, changes and formation of general international law norms.

Andrzej Jakubowski, Ph.D. (2011), European University Institute, is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He has published primarily in the areas of international cultural heritage law and human rights, including State Succession in Cultural Property (Oxford University Press, 2015).