International Law Association, Committee on Cultural Heritage Law (London, England, May 17-18, 2007)

The Committee on Cultural Heritage Law of the International Law Association (ILA) held an interim meeting in London on May 17-18, 2007. After completing the work on the Principles for Cooperation in the Mutual Protection and Transfer of Cultural Material on the occasion of the Seventy-Second Conference in Toronto 2006, the committee has now two projects on its agenda. The first one is concerned with a study of the concept of safe havens for temporary deposit of cultural material rescued from circumstances of armed conflict and other serious threats; the second study deals with the relationship between international trade law and cultural heritage la