Cultural Property Law

The course includes lectures by the teacher on the following topics: the history of legislation on cultural heritage; the regulation of cultural heritage in the European Union; the main international conventions concerning cultural heritage; legislative and administrative competences in the field of cultural heritage legislation; the internal organization of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities (MiBAC); the discipline of cultural heritage contained in the Code of cultural heritage and landscape (legislative decree 22 January 2004, n. 42); the notion of cultural property; the different categories of cultural heritage; cultural assets of public and private property; the methods of ascertaining and verifying the cultural nature of private and public assets; the forms of protection, conservation and protection of cultural heritage; modifications of cultural heritage; the circulation, trade and alienation of cultural assets at national level; international circulation and within the European Union; the removal of cultural assets from the national territory and the return of cultural assets illegally imported into Italy; archaeological assets; archaeological excavations and fortuitous finds; the expropriation of cultural assets, the use of public cultural assets by private entities; the use of institutes and places of culture; access to public and private cultural assets; forms of management of publicly owned cultural assets; the enhancement of cultural heritage; the consultation of documents contained in public and private archives; the criminal, civil and administrative sanctions established in the event of violation of the rules for the protection of cultural heritage.
There are no supplementary didactic activities and exercises.

Knowledge: at the end of the course the student, who has successfully learned the subject, will have acquired full mastery of the topics covered in class and illustrated in the manual and in the related teaching materials.
Skills: the course aims to provide students with detailed and in-depth knowledge of the legislative discipline - national, European and international - of cultural heritage, in particular of the discipline contained in the Code of cultural heritage and landscape (Legislative Decree no. . 42/2004 and the rules and conventions referred to therein); The course also aims to make the student acquire or develop the ability to correctly set and solve practical problems in the light of the notions, principles and rules under study.