Learning objectives

The course is included in the learning area on Food, fashion and cultural heritage. It aims at providing a critical knowledge of cultural heritage law from both an international and a comparative perspective. In particular, it will address the Unesco system and its conventions, which have developed the concept of World Cultural Heritage and have given life to international principles providing universal protection to cultural heritage in both its tangible and intangible facets (not only works of art, but also landscapes, natural heritage and traditional knowledge). Furthermore, special attention will be devoted to the role of cultural heritage as a strategic economic asset.
The insights from this course will give students the ability to identify and apply the main international legal instruments in the field and to learn from the experience of foreign legal systems. Being aware of the different approaches provided throughout the world, students will be able to employ the most advanced methods and knowledge for exploring innovative solutions when dealing with legal issues.
Students will acquire the ability to address real problems in a professional context, orienting their competence to contractual compliance and litigation deterrence. In particular, they will be able to identify the practical consequences of the regulatory framework and to propose and implement solutions. This will be possible thanks to supervised trainings (written tasks, oral discussions, and group works), that will help students in developing correct lines of reasoning and arguing, a professional lexicon and autonomous judgments’ skills within a Problem Based Solving (PBS) context. The teaching method is meant to be instrumental to the continuous learning and updating of acquired knowledge.