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Who Owns History?: Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure
Who Owns History?: Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure
Who Owns History?: Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure
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Who Owns History?: Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure

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The biggest question in the world of art and culture concerns the return of property taken without consent. Throughout history, conquerors or colonial masters have taken artefacts from subjugated peoples, who now want them returned from museums and private collections in Europe and the USA.
The controversy rages on over the Elgin Marbles, and has been given immediacy by figures such as France's President Macron, who says he will order French museums to return hundreds of artworks acquired by force or fraud in Africa, and by British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has pledged that a Labour government would return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. Elsewhere, there is a debate in Belgium about whether the Africa Museum, newly opened with 120,000 items acquired mainly by armed forces in the Congo, should close.
Although there is an international convention dated 1970 that deals with the restoration of artefacts stolen since that time, there is no agreement on the rules of law or ethics which should govern the fate of objects forcefully or lawlessly acquired in previous centuries.
Who Owns History? delves into the crucial debate over the Elgin Marbles, but also offers a system for the return of cultural property based on human rights law principles that are being developed by the courts. It is not a legal text, but rather an examination of how the past can be experienced by everyone, as well as by the people of the country of origin.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 5, 2019
ISBN9781785905421
Who Owns History?: Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure
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Geoffrey Robertson

Geoffrey Robertson KC is founder and joint head of Doughty Street Chambers, Europe’s largest human rights practice. He has had a distinguished career as a trial and appellate counsel in Britain and in international courts, defending, among others, Julian Assange, Salman Rushdie, Gay News, Lula (now President of Brazil) and reporters from The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal. He was sanctioned by the Kremlin in 2022. He has served as a UN appeal judge and as the first president of its war crimes court in Sierra Leone. He has received the New York State Bar Association’s Distinction in International Law and Affairs Award and the Order of Australia for services to human rights. He is a master of the Middle Temple and a trustee of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. His book Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice has been hailed as an inspiration for the global justice movement. His autobiography, Rather His Own Man: In Court with Tyrants, Tarts and Troublemakers, was published by Biteback (UK) and Penguin Random House Australia in 2018.

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