UNESCO Chairholder Ana Filipa Vrdoljak presented the recently published Oxford Commentary on the 1970 UNESCO and 1995 UNIDROIT Conventions on Stolen or Illegally Transferred Cultural Property (Oxford University Press, 2024) on 19 May 2025, the first day of the 8th Meeting of States Parties to the 1970 UNESCO Convention, at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
Professor Alicja Jagielska-Burduk, UNESCO Chair collaborator and contributor to the Commentary presented the volume to the Subsidiary Committee at its 13th meeting on 21 May 2025.
This is the third volume in the Oxford Commentaries on International Cultural Heritage Law edited by Professor A F Vrdoljak and the late Professor Francesco Francioni and forms part of the UNESCO Chair current workplan (2023-2027). The Chair is grateful to fellow co-editors and UNESCO Chair collaborators, Drs Andrzej Jakubowski and Alessandro Chechi and contributors including Professors Wang and Blake.
