The evolving international legal framework for the protection of cultural heritage in international law / Francesco francioni -- Cultural diversity as a human right? general comment no. 21 of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural rights / Laura Pineschi -- Of veils, crosses, and turbans : the European Court of Human Rights and religious practices as manifestations of cultural diversity / Silvia Borelli -- Food as a cultural choice : a human right to be protected? / Maria Clara Mafffei -- Human rights and illicit trade in cultural objects / Ana Filipa Vrdoljak -- "Remedying historical injustice" : ethical and historical considerations in returning cultural materials / Robert Peters -- The tension between communities' cultural rights and global interests : the case of the Maori Mokomokai / Federico Lenzerini -- The definition of intangible cultural heritage / Tullio Scovazzi -- The role for communities, groups, and individuals under the Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage / Sabrina Urbinati -- Culinary traditions as cultural intangible heritage and expressions of cultural diversity / Maria Clara Mafffei -- The right to recovered underwater cultural heritage : the neglected importance of Article 149 of the UN Law of the Sea Convention / Nicola Ferri -- The merits of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage / Tullio Scovazzi -- Historic shipwrecks and the limits of the exclusive rights of the flag state / Patrizia Vigni -- The dilemma of the right to ownership of underwater cultural heritage : the case of the "Getty Bronze" / Alessandra Lanciotti -- The human dimension to landscape protection in international law / Amy Strecker -- Multi-level cooperation to safeguard the human dimension of cultural heritage and to secure the return of wrongfully removed cultural objects / Alessandro Chechi -- The human dimension of state succession to cultural property : the Balkan lesson / Andrzej Jakubowski -- Key issues in the relationship between the world heritage convention and climate change regulation / Ottavio Quirico -- Culture, development, and international law : the linkage between investment rules and the protection of cultural heritage / Valentina Sara Vadi.