The first full-scale study of the international legal framework governing underwater cultural heritage to be published in nearly two decades.

The marine environment is almost ideal for the preservation of artefacts and, until relatively recently, it also provided complete protection from destruction b

This book brings together three distinct areas of International Law – namely Environmental, Heritage and Ocean Law – to address the international legal prot

The world’s cultural heritage is under threat from war, illicit trafficking, social and economic upheaval, unregulated excavation and neglect. Over a period o

The 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage represents a major step forward in the field of international law. New archaeol