UNESCO Chair on Cultural Property Law TEAM - Polish members
Dr Andrzej Jakubowski, Assistant Professor
at the INP PAN. He serves as the chair of the Committee on
Participation in Global Cultural Heritage Governance of the
International Law Association, mediator at the at
the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of
Cultural Property to Its Countries of Origin or Its Restitution in Case
of Illicit Appropriation (on behalf of the Polish government) and vice-editor-in-Chief of the Santander Art and Culture Law Review. He has also been the leader of the ERA-NET (FP7) project “HEURIGHT-The Right to Cultural Heritage – Its Protection and Enforcement through Cooperation in the European Union” (https://heuright.eu).
He has authored many publications on the topics of international
cultural heritage law, cross-border circulation of works of art, human
rights and cultural policy. He wrote the first monograph on State Succession in Cultural Property (Oxford University Press, 2015) and edited a comprehensive volume on Cultural Rights as Collective Rights - An International Law Perspective
(Brill, 2016). Andrzej holds a PhD in law from the European University
Institute and Master degrees (law and art history) from the University
of Warsaw.
Professor Piotr Stec (LLM, PhD & Habilitation University of Silesia Faculty of Law and Administration) is Professor extraordinarius at the Opole University Faculty of Law and Administration, since 2011 dean
of the faculty. He was delegated by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage to the international panel of experts working on the Directive 2014/60/EU on the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of a Member State. Legal advisor and member of Katowice Chamber of Legal
Advisors. Research interests: intellectual and cultural property law,
domestic and comparative private law, problems at intersection between
private and public law.
Dr Wojciech Szafrański,
(PhD, MBA) is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and
Administration,Adam Mickiewicz University, deputy editor-in-chief
Santander Art and Culture Law Review. Author of a number of
publications on cultural heritage law and art market. Art-law consultant
to various private and public entities.
