Opinio Juris

Dr. Tal Mimran is an associate professor at the Zefat Academic College, and the Academic Coordinator of the International Law Forum of the Hebrew University. He is also a fellow at the Federmann ...

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On 16 April 2024, Kosovo passed a major decision gate in its path towards membership of the Council of Europe (CoE) when the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) recommended th...

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  ‘To validate one’s heritage, to explore one’s culture, to examine thoroughly those institutions which have persisted through centuries, is perhaps the first step in a peoples’ search f...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/19/symposium-on-confronting-colonial-objects-stolen-african-cultural-heritage-call-for-the-return-of-ancestral-bangwa-artefacts/

A key theme of Confronting Colonial Objects is the complicity of collectors, museums and racial...

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Confronting Colonial Objects argues that ‘distancing, discursive silencing and erasure are...

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In the opening chapter of his book ‘Confronting Colonial Objects: Histories, Legalities, and Access to Culture’, Carsten Stahn promises to “present both the different facets of colonial vi...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/18/symposium-on-confronting-colonial-objects-beyond-the-performance-of-restitution-an-unexpected-tale-of-minority-disenfranchisement-and-political-conflicts-in-tamil-nadu/

Individual examples prove nothing. Still, a single...

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1. Introduction  In the colonialist moves to collect human remains, and the desire to demonstrate grandeur...

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The centrality of the human body as site of colonial violence, and its implication for contemporary restitution policies, are discussed in Chapter 5 of Confronting Colonial Objects. The book sho...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/17/symposium-on-confronting-colonial-objects-are-museums-entering-a-new-era-of-repatriation-of-human-remains/

The question of returning colonial objects that were displaced during the colonial era by European invaders is by no means a new one. Already in 1978, the then UNESCO Director-General, Amadou-Ma...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/17/symposium-on-confronting-colonial-objects-returning-colonial-objects-the-role-of-transitional-justice-and-alternative-dispute-resolution/

Addressing colonial injustices has not been conceived as a matter of...

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. A central theme of Confronting Colonial Objects is law’s complicity in cultural takings and colonial violence. Carsten Stahn’s book shows how colonial law transformed conceptions of propert...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/17/symposium-on-confronting-colonial-objects-on-the-duality-of-the-ottoman-antiquity-law-enabling-and-constraining-extractive-practices/

“Confronting Colonial Objects” is a timely contribution to the debate on restitution. It explores the multiple layers surrounding the issue of relocating cultural objects to their place or p...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/16/symposium-on-confronting-colonial-objects-on-gods-and-things-different-ontologies-and-the-united-national-declaration-of-indigenous-peoples/

Confronting Colonial Objects by Carsten Stahn is the most...

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Carsten Stahn’s Confronting Colonial Objects: Histories, Legalities, and Access to Culture is a fantastic volume that deserves wide readership. International law’s material turn has been the...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/16/symposium-on-confronting-colonial-objects-international-law-as-colonial-object-the-language-materiality-dichotomy-and-the-coloniality-of-cultural-takings/