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Chartrand, Paul L. A. H. --- "Foreword" [2012] ELECD 1162; in Graber, Beat Christoph; Kuprecht, Karolina; Lai, Christine Jessica (eds), "International Trade in Indigenous Cultural Heritage" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012) xvii

Book Title: International Trade in Indigenous Cultural Heritage

Editor(s): Graber, Beat Christoph; Kuprecht, Karolina; Lai, Christine Jessica

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857938305

Section Title: Foreword

Author(s): Chartrand, Paul L. A. H.

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

Foreword
Paul L.A.H. Chartrand

In January 2011, I had the privilege of participating in a workshop on `International Trade
in Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Legal and Policy Issues' at the invitation of Christoph B.
Graber, the Head of the i-call Research Centre for International Communications and Art
Law at the University of Lucerne in Switzerland. The event attracted academic and legal
experts from several countries, as well as representatives of some of the most relevant
international institutions, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). I am honoured to have been invited by Christoph
to write a foreword for the book that continues the scholarly work that was launched at that
conference in a beautiful city in the Swiss mountains. In my own academic and profes-
sional career I have had to confront many of the issues that now concern the researchers,
but in no sense can I profess to be an expert in the particular spheres of study that were
addressed at the workshop and that are the subject of analysis in this book. The following
observations are therefore offered for what they may be worth.
As the nations of the world move into the twenty-first century, there is evidence that the
interests of indigenous peoples are receiving increasing attention and concern from
legislators and policy-makers. The contents of this book focus upon the particular interests
that are subject to ...