Amy Strecker is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Heritage and Society, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, where she teaches the theory and practice of international heritage law. Amy obtained her PhD in international law from the European University Institute, Florence. She holds an MA in Cultural Policy and Arts Management and a BA in the History of Art and Architecture from University College Dublin. Her research focuses primarily on the interplay between landscape and law (including heritage, environment, property and human rights). Recent research has also dealt with the role of international law in confronting the colonial past in the Caribbean, specifically in relation to land rights, cultural heritage and restitution. Amy is a visiting professor in international environmental law at the University of Nova Gorica, Venice, and a research coordinator with the LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development.
What Strecker has done is write the definitive piece on the topic of landscapes and law. This covers the philosophy, politics and law in a way that no other texts have done. It even covers cross-cultural aspects, which is often ignored in similar work. * Alexander Gillespie, Law Faculty, University of Waikato. Author of Environmental Law, Policy and Ethics and Protected Areas in International Law * The topic of the book is relevant for research and teaching in several academic disciplines, such as landscape architecture, environmental science, cultural heritage studies, human geography, social anthropology, and legal studies. It is also highly relevant for practitioners in environmental management, landscape management and cultural heritage management, as well as for policy makers in these fields. The European Landscape Convention is attracting increasing interest outside Europe, with moves to develop a global landscape convention, and this book provides a valuable background for these efforts. * Michael Jones, Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology, Co-Editor of Landscape, Law and Justice and The European Landscape Convention, Challenges of Participation *