Handbuch Kulturgüterschutz und Kunstrestitutionsrecht, Band 6: Allgemeiner Teil des internationalen Kulturgüterschutz- und Kunstrestitutionsrechts/Strafrecht

the first section completes the previous volumes by addressing the significant ways and means available under criminal law, which are applied in the daily practice of the protection of cultural goods and art restitution, from national and international perspectives. The response options to illegal art trading available under criminal law are also considered starting from the point at which the state attorney or police are notified up to the securing of the object and the return of the illegally confiscated cultural goods to the rightful owners. The series is concluded with a "general section", which considers the fundamental goals and basic principles of the protection of cultural goods comprehensively across the legal fields. Finally, a new system of cultural goods protection is presented on the basis of three criteria - namely "cultural goods" (as the object), "owner of cultural goods" (as the subject) and "legal and cultural classification criteria" - in order to transcend the established legal and cultural difficulties surrounding the classification of art and cultural goods.