{"title":"Restitution of Cultural Heritage under International Law","authors":"Lu Meng","doi":"10.2991/icecsd-19.2019.13","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the protection of cultural heritage has attracted worldwide attention and has been gradually deepened in all countries and nationalities. Due to all kinds of historical and realistic factors, the problem of illegal transfer of cultural heritage is very serious. And whether in war or peace times, cultural heritage can not escape plunder, theft and illegal export and other adversities. Therefore, in order to protect the cultural heritage, it is very important to sort out the basis of its restitution, clarify the dilemma faced by its restitution ,thus explore the legal mechanism of the restitution of the cultural heritage. 1. Basis for the Restitution of Cultural Heritage 1.1 Theory Basis As a special property, cultural heritage has the commercial value of ordinary property.On the other hand, cultural heritage is not only the embodiment of material value, but also the symbol of a nation and nation.And it is historical and contemporary.Therefore, because cultural heritage is integrated into the feelings of a nation, nation and individual, it is historic and inherited, and every country and nation will do its best to protect the integrity and authenticity of the cultural heritage and pass it on to future generations.So, the special value of the property makes the original owner's right to restitution different from the general property. In addition,as an important link in national property and national civilization, cultural heritage involves a broad group of interests.Violating the will of the State of origin to the steal and loot cultural property,this behavior is an infringement of a country's sovereignty. 1.2 International Law Basis At present,the international community has adopted plenty of global international treaties on the protection of 3rd International Conference on Education, Culture and Social Development (ICECSD 2019) Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 344","PeriodicalId":338797,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Education, Culture and Social Development (ICECSD 2019)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Education, Culture and Social Development (ICECSD 2019)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2991/icecsd-19.2019.13","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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