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Professor Lucas Lixinski

Professor Lucas Lixinski

Professor
Law & Justice
School of Global & Public Law

Lucas Lixinski is aProfessor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney. Prior to joining UNSW, he was a Postgraduate Fellow at the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law. He holds a PhD in International Law from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), an LLM in Human Rights Law from Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), and an LLB from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil). He researches and teaches across a range of fields in international law, primarily international cultural heritage law and international human rights law. He sits on the Board of Editors of ESIL Reflections, the International Journal of Heritage Studies, the Santander Art and Culture Law Review, and the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review. He is also a co-founder and editor of , a blog of the Brazilian Branch of the International Law Association devoted to Global South engagements with international law.

He is the Director of Studies globally for the , the world's oldest learned society in the field. Further, he is an affiliate of the and of theEvacuations Research Hubat the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law atUNSW Sydney. His main current research project focuses on cultural heritage in contexts of massive social change and upheaval, bringing together insights from evacuation, forced migration law, and international human rights law. He is also working on a project on the history of international extradition law (with Pablo del Hierro Lecea, a historian from Maastricht University), and a project on how international human rights courts and tribunals influence social movements' advocacy beyond strategic litigation.

His 2020 co-edited commentary to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention (Oxford University Press) (with Janet Blake) received the American Society of International Law's Certificate of Merit for high technical craftsmanship and utility to practicing lawyers and scholars.

He is a regular contributor to print, radio, and television media. He is featured regularly in Times Higher Education, SBS Radio (in Spanish), and also in outlets like ABC News, the Sydney Morning Herald, and others.

You can find pre-prints of all his publications on his SSRN page (linked above in the SSRN icon).
Phone
+61 2 9385 6685
E-mail
l.lixinski@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room 374 Law Building UNSW Kensington Campus
  • Books | 2024
    LIXINSKI L, 2024, A Research Agenda for Cultural Heritage Law
    Books | 2021
    Lixinski L, 2021, Legalized Identities Cultural Heritage Law and the Shaping of Transitional Justice,
    Books | 2019
    Lixinski L, 2019, International Heritage Law for Communities Exclusion and Re-Imagination, Oxford University Press, USA,
    Books | 2013
    Lixinski , 2013, Intangible Cultural Heritage in International Law, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom,
  • Book Chapters | 2025
    Hobbs H, 2025, 'Treaties and Modern Agreements with Indigenous Peoples', in Åhrén M; Charters C; Hohmann J; Lixinski L (ed.), Oxford Handbook on Indigenous Peoples and International Law, Oxford University Press,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Lixinski L; Morisset L, 2024, 'Introduction: The Law as an Instrument for Heritage', in The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law, Taylor & Francis, pp. 1 - 4,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Lixinski L; Williams S, 2024, 'Cultural Heritage and Conservation and Insecurity Paradigms: International Law in the Pursuit of Social Cohesion', in Bonaviri G; Sadowski M (ed.), Heritage in War and Peace, Springer Cham, pp. 105 - 125,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Lixinski L, 2024, 'Article 22 of the UNESCO Convention: Territorial Application', in Vrdoljak A; Jakubowski A; Chechi A (ed.), The 1970 UNESCO and 1995 UNIDROIT Conventions on Stolen or Illegally Transferred Cultural Property: A Commentary, Oxford University Press, pp. 414 - 427,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Lixinski L, 2024, 'Federalism and Heritage Law', in The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law, Taylor & Francis, pp. 133 - 144,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Lixinski L, 2024, 'Religious Heritage and the Law', in Lixinski L; Morisset LK (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pp. 473 - 488,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Lixinski L, 2024, 'Rewriting Queer Markers of Identity: International Cultural Heritage Law, Criminalisation, and the Other', in O'Hara C; Paige TP (ed.), Queer Engagements with International Law: TImes, Spaces, Imaginings, Taylor & Francis (Routledge),
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Lixinski L, 2024, 'The Relations between Law and Heritage Studies', in Lixinski L; Morisset LK (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law, Taylor & Francis, pp. 22 - 32,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Zhu Y; Lixinski L, 2024, 'Conflict and Peace-Building: Heritage in Transformation', in Lixinski L; Zhu Y (ed.), Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building, Taylor & Francis,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Lixinski L, 2023, 'Cultural Heritage as the New Standard of Civilization? Engagement with UNESCO from Rejection to Aggressive Embrace and the Perpetuation of Empire', in Wu C-H; Gaenssmantel F; Giumelli F (ed.), Multilateralism in Peril: The Uneasy Triangle of the US, China and the EU, Routledge (Taylor & Francis), pp. 21 - 35,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Lixinski L, 2023, 'Cultural Heritage in International Indigenous Rights Declarations: Beyond Recognition', in Reisman WM; Pati R (ed.), Human Flourishing: The End of Law - Essays in Honor of Siegfried Wiessner, BRILL, pp. 822 - 842,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Lixinski L, 2023, 'DESTRUCTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IN PEACETIME AND INTERNATIONAL LAW', in The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction, Routledge, pp. 65 - 75,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Lixinski L, 2023, 'Food as Culture: Framing, Legal Harmonization, and Transnational Law as a Regulatory Gateway', in Culture and Law: An Inescapable Encounter, Ius Comparatum, pp. 89 - 118
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Lixinski L, 2023, 'Prefácio: o poder do patrimônio', in Benevides G; Lowande W (ed.), Estudos Críticos de Patrimônio: Abordagens Transnacionais, pp. 13 - 21
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Lixinski L, 2023, 'Protecção Internacional de Bens Culturais', in Vicente DM; Bastos FL; Ribeiro MA; Saliba AT; Franca Filho MT; Casella PB (ed.), Enciclopédia Luso-Brasileira de Direito Internacional, pp. 953 - 955
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Lixinski L, 2023, 'Right to Cultural Life: Panacea or Problem?', in Strecker A; Powderly J (ed.), Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law, pp. 259 - 282
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Steel A, 2023, 'Re-Thinking Assessment in Law', in Gibbon H; Golder B; Lixinski L; Nehme M; Vines P (ed.), Critical Legal Education as a Subversive Activity, Routledge, pp. 78 - 99,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Gibbon H; Golder B; Lixinski L; Nehme M; Vines P, 2022, 'An Introduction to Subversive Legal Education', in Legal Education as a Subversive Activity, Routledge, pp. 1 - 9,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Lixinski L, 2022, 'Cultural Heritage as the New Standard of Civilisation? Engagement with UNESCO from Rejection to Aggressive Embrace and the Perpetuation of Empire', in Multilateralism in Peril: The Uneasy Triangle of the US, China and the EU, pp. 19 - 35,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Lixinski L, 2022, 'Regional Indigenous Rights and the (Dis)Contents of Translation: A View from Latin America', in Newman D (ed.), Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 12 - 26,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Lixinski L, 2022, 'Regional Indigenous rights and the (dis)contents of translation: a view from Latin America', in Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights, pp. 10 - 24,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Vines P, 2022, 'A visceral view of subversion in legal education – teaching and research in unusual domains as a methodology’', in Gibbon H; Golder B; Nehme M; Lixinski L; Vines P (ed.), Legal Education as a Subversive Activity, Taylor & Francis
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Lixinski L, 2021, 'Global Public Goods and Private International Legal Governance: Lessons from International Cultural Heritage Law', in Zyberi G (ed.), Protecting Community Interests through International Law, Intersentia, pp. 31 - 58,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Blake J; Lixinski L, 2020, 'Article 3(b): Relationship to Intellectual Property and Environmental Instruments', in Blake J; Lixinski L (ed.), The 2003 UNESCO Intangible Heritage Convention: A Commentary, Oxford University Press, pp. 117 - 133,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Blake J; Lixinski L, 2020, 'Conclusions: Tightropes of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention', in Blake J; Lixinski L (ed.), The 2003 UNESCO Intangible Heritage Convention: A Commentary, Oxford University Press, pp. 494 - 503,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Lixinski L; Tzevelekos V, 2020, 'The World Heritage Convention and the Law of State Responsibility: Promises and Pitfalls', in Carstens A-M; Varner E (ed.), Intersections in International Cultural Heritage Law, Oxford University Press, pp. 247 - 266,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Lixinski L, 2020, 'Article 3(a): Relationship to Other International Heritage Instruments', in Blake J; Lixinski L (ed.), The 2003 UNESCO Intangible Heritage Convention: A Commentary, Oxford University Press, pp. 100 - 116,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Lixinski L, 2020, 'Central and South America', in Francioni F; Vrdoljak AF (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of International Cultural Heritage Law, Oxford University Press, pp. 878 - 907,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Lixinski L, 2020, 'Heritage law in Pacific Island states: the legacies of colonialism and the elusive possibilities of cultural emancipation', in Wewerinke-Singh M; Hamman E (ed.), Environmental Law and Governance in the Pacific: Climate Change, Biodiversity and Communities, pp. 215 - 236,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Lixinski L, 2020, 'The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Human Rights: Relativism and Collectivism 2.0?', in Blake J; Lixinski L (ed.), The 2003 UNESCO Intangible Heritage Convention: A Commentary, Oxford University Press, pp. 463 - 477,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Lixinski L; Franca Filho MT; Olmos Giupponi B, 2019, 'Courts of Regional Economic Communities in Latin America and Human Rights Law', in Kadelbach S; Rensmann T; Rieter E (ed.), Judging International Human Rights, Springer, pp. 201 - 221,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Lixinski L, 2019, 'Axum Stele', in International Law’s Objects, pp. 130 - 140,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Lixinski L, 2019, 'Balancing Test: Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR)', in Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law, Oxford University Press,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Lixinski L, 2019, 'Culture, in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]', in Grote R; Lachenmann F; Wolfrum R (ed.), Oxford Constitutional Law, Max Planck Institute,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Lixinski L, 2019, 'Indigenous (Intangible) Cultural Heritage and the Unfulfilled Promises of Rights Declarations', in Sargent S; Samanta J (ed.), Indigenous Rights: Changes and Challenges for the 2st Century, Buckingham University Press, Buckingham, pp. 41 - 58
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Lixinski L, 2019, 'International Human Rights Law and Municipal Law', in Grote R; Lachenmann F; Wolfrum R (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Lixinski L, 2019, 'The Inter-American Court of Human Rights' Tentative Search for Latin American Consensus', in Kapotas P; Tzevelekos V (ed.), Building Consensus on European Consensus Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights in Europe and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, pp. 337 - 363,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Ingulstad M; Lixinski L, 2018, 'Pan-American exceptionalism: Regional international law as a challenge to international institutions', in Jackson S; O'Malley A (ed.), The Institution of International Order: From the League of Nations to the United Nations, Routledge, pp. 65 - 89,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Lixinski L, 2018, 'Axum Stele', in Hohmann J; Joyce D (ed.), International Law's Objects, Oxford University Press, USA, pp. 130 - 140,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Lixinski L, 2018, 'General Principles of Contracts about the Exploitation of Intangible Cultural Heritage', in Di Costanzo L (ed.), The Ownership of Cultural Heritage: Public-Private Partnership, Satura Editrice, pp. 53 - 87,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Lixinski L, 2018, 'Instrumentos Regionais e Internacionais Sobre Patrimônio Cultural Imaterial: Multiculturalismo Entre Tradição e Modernidade, Cultura Alta e Baixa', in Soares IVP; Pragmácio M (ed.), Tutela Jurídica e Política de Preservação do Patrimônio Cultural Imaterial, pp. 47 - 70
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Lixinski L, 2018, 'Intangible heritage economics and the law: listing, commodification and market alienation', in Akagawa N; Laurajane S (ed.), Safeguarding Intangible Heritage Practices and Politics, Routledge, London, pp. 54 - 67,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Lixinski L, 2018, 'Regional and international treaties on intangible cultural heritage: between tradition and contemporary culture', in Waelde C; Cummings C; Pavis M; Enright H (ed.), Research Handbook on Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage: Law and Heritage, Edward Elgar, pp. 15 - 34,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Lixinski L, 2018, 'Religious cultural heritage: The law and politics of conservation, iconoclasm, and identity', in Hooper G (ed.), Heritage at the Interface: Interpretation and Identity, pp. 121 - 135,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Durbach A; Lixinski L, 2017, 'Introduction', in Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging Legal Discourses, Hart Publishing, pp. 1 - 7
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Francioni F; Lixinski L, 2017, 'Opening the Toolbox of International Human Rights Law in the Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage', in Durbach A; Lixinski L (ed.), Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging legal discourses, HART PUBL, Univ New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 11 - 34,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Lima Marques C; Lixinski L; Baquero PM, 2017, 'Brazil', in Basedow J; Rühl G; Ferrari F; Asensio PDM (ed.), Encyclopedia of Private International Law, Edward Elgar, pp. 81 - 91
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Lixinski L; Tzevelekos V, 2017, 'The Strained, Elusive and Wide-Ranging Relationship between International Cultural Heritage Law and the Law of State Responsibility: From Collective Enforcement to Concurrent Responsibility', in Chechi A; Renold M-A (ed.), Cultural Heritage Law and Ethics: Mapping Recent Developments, pp. 7 - 43
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Lixinski L, 2017, 'A critical mapping of transitional justice in Latin America', in Comparative Constitutional Law in Latin America, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 87 - 107,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Lixinski L, 2017, 'Falling Short: the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Regime, Indigenous heritage and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples', in Indigenous Rights: Changes and Challenges in the 21st Century, The University of Buckingham Press, pp. 37 - 54,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Lixinski L, 2017, 'Heritage Listing as Self-determination', in Durbach A; Lixinski L (ed.), Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging legal discourses, HART PUBL, Univ New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 227 - 249,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Lixinski L; Marques CL, 2016, 'Family and Succession Law', in Deffenti F; Barral W (ed.), Introduction to Brazilian Law - 2nd Edition, pp. 51 - 72
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Lixinski L; Tzevelekos V, 2016, 'From the internationalisation of national constitutions to the "constitutionalisation" of international law: the role of human rights', in Jakubowski A; Wierczynska K (ed.), Fragmentation vs the Constitutionalisation of International Law: A Practical Inquiry, Routledge, pp. 32 - 52
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Lixinski L, 2016, 'Commentary: The Responsibility to Protect and Non-State (Corporate) Actors - More of the Same?', in Barnes R; Tzevelekos V (ed.), Beyond Responsibility to Protect: Generating Change in International Law, Intersentia, pp. 241 - 248
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Lixinski L, 2016, 'Intangible Cultural Heritage', in Wiesand A; Chainoglou K; Sledzinska-Simon A; Donders Y (ed.), Culture and Human Rights – The Wroclaw Commentaries, De Gruyter, pp. 189 - 191,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Lixinski L; Buckingham L, 2015, 'Propertization, safeguarding and the cultural commons The turf wars of intangible cultural heritage and traditional cultural expressions', in Vadi V; DeWitte B (ed.), Culture and International Economic Law, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 160 - 174
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Lixinski L, 2015, 'Direito Internacional da Arte e do Patrimônio Cultural: Estratégias de Exclusão e Inclusão [International Art and Cultural Heritage Law: Strategies of Exclusion and Inclusion]', in Mamede G; Franca Filho M; Rodrigues Junior OL (ed.), Direito da Arte [Art Law], Atlas, pp. 209 - 240
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Lixinski L, 2015, 'Procedural Fairness in Human Rights Systems', in Sarvarian A; Fontanelli F; Baker R; Tzevelekos V (ed.), Procedural Fairness in International Courts, BIICL, UK, pp. 325 - 342
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Lixinski L, 2014, 'Det immaterielle Røros [The Intangible in Røros]', in Gjelsvik E (ed.), Røros: Refleksjoner etter 30 år som vendersarv [Røros: Reflections of a 30 year anniversary], Pax Forlag, pp. 207 - 221
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Lixinski L, 2014, 'Environment and War: Lessons from Cultural Heritage Law', in Rayfuse R (ed.), War and the Environment: New Approaches to Protecting the Environment in relation to Armed Conflict, Martinus Nijhoff Publishing, pp. 157 - 177,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Lixinski L, 2014, 'Environment and War: Lessons from International Cultural Heritage Law', in Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library, pp. 157 - 177,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Lixinski L, 2014, 'Heritage for Whom? Individuals' and Communities' Roles in International Cultural Heritage Law', in Lenzerini F; Vrdoljak F (ed.), International Law for Common Goods - Normative Perspectives on Human Rights, Culture and Nature, Hart Publishing Ltd., pp. 193 - 213,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Lixinski L, 2014, 'Human Dignity in South American Law', in Düwell M; Braarvig J; Brownsword R; Mieth D (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, pp. 394 - 400,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Lixinski L, 2014, 'Taming the Fragmentation Monster through Human Rights? International Constitutionalism, 'Pluralism Lite' and the Common Territory of the two European Legal Orders', in Kosta V; Skoutaris N; Tzevelekos VP (ed.), The EU Accession to the ECHR, Hart Pub Limited, pp. 219 - 233,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Lixinski L, 2013, 'Legal Implications of the Privatization of Cyber Warfare', in Viola de Azevedo Cunha M; Nuno Gomes de Andrade N; Lixinski L; Tome Feteira L (ed.), New Technologies and Human Rights: Challenges to Regulation, Ashgate, England, pp. 255 - 271,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Lixinski ; Marques CL; Bordin FL, 2011, 'Artigos 11-16 [Articles 11-16]', in Saliba AT (ed.), Direito dos Tratados – Comentários à Convenção de Viena sobre o Direito dos Tratados (1969), edn. Original, Arraes Editores, pp. 55 - 98
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Lixinski ; Marques CL, 2011, 'Family and Succession Law', in Deffenti F; Barral W (ed.), Introduction to Brazilian Law, edn. Original, Kluwer Law International, The Netherlands, pp. 49 - 69,
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Lixinski L; Correa FA, 2010, 'The Legal Future of MERCOSUR', in Lixinski ; Franca Filho MT; Olmos Giupponi MB (ed.), The Law of MERCOSUR, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 413 - 423
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Lixinski L; Franca Filho MT; Olmos Giupponi MB, 2010, 'Introduction to the Law of MERCOSUR', in Lixinski L; Franca Filho MT; Olmos Giupponi MB (ed.), The Law of MERCOSUR, Hart, pp. 1 - 5
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Lixinski L; Marques CL; Miragem B, 2010, 'Desenvolvimento e Consumo: bases para uma análise da proteção do consumidor como direito humano [Consumption and Development: Bases for analyzing consumer protection as a human right]', in Piovesan F; Soares IVP (ed.), Direito ao Desenvolvimento [The Right to Development], Forum, pp. 201 - 230
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Lixinski L, 2010, 'Human Rights Law in MERCOSUR', in Lixinski L; Franca Filho MT; Olmos Giupponi MB (ed.), The Law of MERCOSUR, Hart, pp. 351 - 364
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Lixinski L; Marques CL, 2008, 'Artigo 12 [Article 12]', in Brant LNC (ed.), Comentário à Carta das Nações Unidas [Commentary to the United Nations Charter], pp. 257 - 269
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Lixinski L, 2008, 'Limiting Freedom of Assembly Based on Harm to Third Parties: The Balancing of Economic Freedoms and Fundamental Rights in the European Union and MERCOSUR', in Sajo A (ed.), Free to Protest: Constituent Power and Street Demonstration, Eleven, pp. 127 - 127
  • Edited Books | 2024
    Lixinski L; Morisset L, (ed.), 2024, The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law
    Edited Books | 2023
    Barreiro B; Jakubowski A; Lixinski L, (eds.), 2023, 15 Years of the UNESCO Diversity of Cultural Expressions: Convention Actors, Processes and Impact
    Edited Books | 2023
    Gibbon H; Golder B; Lixinski L; Nehme M; Vines P, (eds.), 2023, Critical Legal Education as a Subvervise Activity,
    Edited Books | 2020
    Blake J; Lixinski L, (ed.), 2020, The 2003 UNESCO Intangible Heritage Convention: A Commentary, Oxford University Press,
    Edited Books | 2017
    Durbach A; Lixinski L, (ed.), 2017, Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging Legal Discourses, HART PUBL, Univ New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA,
    Edited Books | 2015
    Lixinski L; Marques CL, (ed.), 2015, Legislação de Direito dos Negócios Internacionais [Legislation of International Business Law]
    Edited Books | 2010
    Filho MTF; Lixinski L; Giupponi MBO, 2010, The Law of MERCOSUR, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Almohamad A; Szabados T; Tattersall L; Lixinski L, 2024, 'Pierre Lalive and John Henry Merryman, Fellows in Art and Cultural Heritage Law – Where Are They Now?', International Journal of Cultural Property, pp. 1 - 7,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Arato J; Jaeckel A; Lixinski L, 2024, 'On the Cultural Stakes of Deep Seabed Mining', AJIL Unbound, 118, pp. 67 - 71,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Lixinski L; Rico T; Stefano ML; Zhu Y, 2024, 'Advancing critical heritage studies: the next 10 years', International Journal of Heritage Studies,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Lixinski L, 2024, '50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict & Reconciliation, by Marie-Theres Albert, Roland Bernecker, Claire Cave, Anca Claudia Prodan and Matthias Ripp. Springer Cham, 2022. 504pp. ISBN9783031056628', Built Heritage, 8,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Lixinski L, 2024, 'A Resiliência da Identidade: Indigenato e a Virada Histórica no Direito Internacional', Revista Brasileira de História & Ciências Sociais, 16, pp. 324 - 354,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Del Hierro P; Lixinski L, 2023, 'Writing a Transnational (Global?) History of Extradition Law in the Short Twentieth Century: Beyond Western-Centric Approaches', Journal of the History of International Law,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Lixinski L; Peleg N, 2023, 'Paternalism in International Human Rights Law', Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, 33, pp. 1 - 43,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Lixinski L, 2023, 'Cultural heritage and interculturality: a call to action', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 29, pp. 1361 - 1373,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Lixinski L, 2023, 'Excavating the field of heritage law: support, renewal, and iconoclasm', International Journal of Cultural Property, 30, pp. 264 - 279,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Lixinski L, 2023, 'Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Intellectual Property: International and European Perspectives', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 29, pp. 239 - 240,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Moreira JK; Lixinski L, 2023, 'Inventorying is Reckoning: Joacine Katar Moreira talks to Lucas Lixinski', Santander Art and Culture Law Review, 9, pp. 29 - 36,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Lixinski L; McAdam J; Tupou P, 2022, 'Ocean Cultures, the Anthropocene and International Law: Cultural Heritage and Mobility Law as Imaginative Gateways', Melbourne Journal of International Law, 23, pp. 1 - 22,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Lixinski L, 2022, 'Against authenticity', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 28, pp. 1213 - 1227,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Lixinski L, 2022, 'On the Circumscribed and Problematic Resurgence of Inter-State Human Rights Cases', European Convention on Human Rights Law Review, 3, pp. 174 - 184,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Lixinski L, 2022, 'Research handbook on compliance in international human rights law', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 28, pp. 189 - 191,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Lixinski L, 2022, 'Widening New Bridges: A Response to the Reviewers of Legalized Identities', Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, 25, pp. 236 - 245,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Lixinski L; McAdam J; Tupou P, 2022, 'Ocean Cultures, the Anthropocene, and International Law: Cultural Heritage and Mobility Law as Imaginative Gateways', Melbourne Journal of International Law, vol. 23,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Engle K; Lixinski L, 2021, 'Quilombo Land Rights, Brazilian Constitutionalism, and Racial Capitalism', Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 54, pp. 831 - 870
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lixinski L; Losier MM; Schreiber H, 2021, 'Envisioning a Legal Framework for Outer Space Cultural Heritage', Journal of Space Law, 45, pp. 1 - 45
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lixinski L; Young S, 2021, 'Creative Differences: Indigenous Artists and the Law at 20th Century Nation-Building Exhibitions', Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, pp. 3 - 38,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lixinski L, 2021, 'Commercializing Traditional Culture: Promises and Pitfalls in the Convergence of Intellectual Property Law and Cultural Heritage Law', Annali italiani del diritto d'autore, della cultura e dello spettacolo (AIDA), 29, pp. 298 - 314
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lixinski L, 2021, 'Digital Heritage Surrogates, Decolonization, and International Law: Restitution, Control, and the Creation of Value as Reparations and Emancipation', Santander Art and Culture Law Review, 6, pp. 65 - 86,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lixinski L, 2021, 'Paradoxes of Visibility and Preservation: Cultural Heritage Law and the Making of the City as an International Legal Category', Italian Yearbook of International Law Online, 30, pp. 37 - 57
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lixinski L, 2021, 'The ‘collective guarantee’ of international human rights: Creating, reinforcing, and undoing legitimacies and mandates between law and politics', Questions of International Law, 80, pp. 5 - 19,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Butterly L; Lixinski L, 2020, 'Aboriginal cultural heritage reform in australia and the dilemmas of power', International Journal of Cultural Property, 27, pp. 125 - 149,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Garcia B; Lixinski L, 2020, 'Beyond Culture: Reimagining the Adjudication of Indigenous Peoples' Rights in International Law', Intercultural Human Rights Law Review, 15, pp. 127 - 169
    Journal articles | 2020
    Lixinski L; Morosini F, 2020, 'Editorial: Populismo e Direito Internacional: Perspectivas do Sul Global', Brazilian Journal of International Law, 17, pp. 62 - 65,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Lixinski L; Tzevelekos V, 2020, 'The Hagia Sophia, Secularism, and International Cultural Heritage Law', ASIL Insights, 24, pp. 1 - 7,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Lixinski L, 2020, 'Across the Public/Private International Legal Divide in the Governance of Global Public Goods', Denver Journal of International Law and Policy, 47, pp. 1 - 28,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Lixinski L, 2020, 'Religious heritage in international law: Nationalism, culture, and rights', Pravovedenie, 64, pp. 138 - 155,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Lixinski L, 2020, 'Rights Litigation Piggybacking: Legal Mobilization Strategies in LGBTIQ International Human Rights Jurisprudence', Florida Journal of International Law, 31, pp. 273 - 314,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Morosini F; Lixinski L, 2020, 'Editorial: Populism and International Law: Global South perspectives', Brazilian Journal of International Law, 17, pp. 56 - 60,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Morosini F; Lixinski L, 2020, 'Populism and International Law: Global South perspectives', Revista de Direito Internacional, 17,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Lixinski L, 2019, 'A third way of thinking about cultural property', Brooklyn Journal of International Law, 44, pp. 563 - 612,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Lixinski L, 2019, 'Mechanisms of systemic change in regional human rights courts: swinging the pendulum between legitimacy and impact', Cambridge International Law Journal, 8, pp. 60 - 83,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Lixinski L, 2018, 'Confederate Monuments and International Law', Wisconsin International Law Journal, 35 (http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/wilj/volume-35-issue-3/), pp. 549 - 607,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Lixinski L, 2018, 'Food as Heritage and Multi-Level International Legal Governance', International Journal of Cultural Property, 25, pp. 469 - 490,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Lixinski L, 2018, 'Movings Cultures: Engaging Refugee and Migrant Culture Rights in International Heritage Law', Indonesian Journal of International Law,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Lixinski L, 2018, 'The Consensus Method of Interpretation by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights', Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law, pp. 65 - 95
    Journal articles | 2018
    Lixinski L, 2018, 'The Dark Sides of Environmental Sustainable Development in Intangible Heritage Safeguarding', Islamic Studies on Human Rights and Democracy, 2, pp. 31 - 50,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Lixinski L, 2018, 'Trialogical Subsidiarity in International and Comparative Law: Engagement with International Treaties by Sub-State Entities as Resistance or Innovation', Canadian Yearbook of International Law, 55, pp. 1 - 32,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Lixinski L; Schreiber H, 2017, 'Guest Editorial: Intangible Cultural Heritage: Successes, Disappointments, and Challenges', Santander Art & Culture Law Review, 2/2017, pp. 17 - 20,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Lixinski L; Schreiber L, 2017, 'The Limits of Framing in International Law: The Shortcomings of International Heritage Protection in the ISIS Conflicts', Research Unit on Military Law & Ethics (RUMLAE) Research Paper Series, 17, pp. 1 - 14,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Lixinski L, 2017, 'CASE OF THE KALINA AND LOKONO PEOPLES v. SURINAME', AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, 111, pp. 147 - 154,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Wells JC; Lixinski L, 2017, 'Heritage values and legal rules: Identification and treatment of the historic environment via an adaptive regulatory framework (part 2)', Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, 7, pp. 345 - 363,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Lixinski L, 2016, 'Moral, legal and archaeological relics of the past: portrayals of international cultural heritage law in cinema', LONDON REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, 4, pp. 421 - 437,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Picker ; Lixinski L; Steel AD; Fitzsimmons D, 2016, 'Comparative Perspectives on Teaching Foreign Students in Law: Pedagogical, Substantive, Logistical and Conceptual Challenges', Legal Education Review, 26, pp. 161 - 185,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Tzevelekos VP; Lixinski L, 2016, 'Towards a Humanized International "constitution"?', Leiden Journal of International Law, 29, pp. 343 - 364,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Wells JC; Lixinski L, 2016, 'Heritage values and legal rules: Identification and treatment of the historic environment via an adaptive regulatory framework (part 1)', Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, 6, pp. 345 - 364,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Kosař D; Lixinski L, 2015, 'Domestic Judicial Design by International Human Rights Courts', The American Journal of International Law, 109, pp. 713 - 760,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Lixinski L, 2015, 'Cultural heritage law and transitional justice: Lessons from South Africa', International Journal of Transitional Justice, 9, pp. 278 - 296,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Lixinski L, 2015, 'Heritage Listing as a Tool for Advocacy: The Possibilities for Dissent, Contestation, and Emancipation in International Law Through International Cultural Heritage Law', Asian Journal of International Law, 5, pp. 387 - 409,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Lixinski L, 2015, 'Sustainable Development in International Heritage Law: Embracing a Backwards Look for the Sake of Forwardness?', Australian Yearbook of International Law, 32, pp. 65 - 86
    Journal articles | 2014
    Franca-Filho MT; Lixinski L; Giupponi BO, 2014, 'Protection of Fundamental Rights in Latin American FTAs and MERCOSUR: An Exploratory Agenda', European Law Journal, 20, pp. 811 - 823,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Lixinski L, 2014, 'A Tale of Two Heritages: Claims of Ownership over Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Myth of "Authenticity"', Transnational Dispute Management, 2, pp. online,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Lixinski L, 2014, 'Between orthodoxy and heterodoxy: The troubled relationships between heritage studies and heritage law', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 21, pp. 203 - 214,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Lixinski L, 2014, 'Comparative International Human Rights Law: An Analysis of the Right to Private and Family Life across Human Rights “Jurisdictions”', Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 32, pp. 99 - 117,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Lixinski L, 2014, 'The Settlement of International Cultural Heritage Disputes', NETHERLANDS INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW, 61, pp. 460 - 463,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Lixinski L, 2014, 'What's in a name? Recent developments in Brazilian private international law', Australian Law Journal, 88, pp. 546 - 548
    Journal articles | 2013
    Lixinski L; Ingulstad M, 2013, 'Raw Materials, Race, and Legal Regimes: The Development of the Principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources in the Americas', World History Bulletin, 29, pp. 34 - 39,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Lixinski L, 2013, 'International Cultural Heritage Regimes, International Law, and the Politics of Expertise', International Journal of Cultural Property, 20, pp. 407 - 429,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Lixinski L, 2013, 'Luci E Ombre: The Bright And Dark Sides Of International Heritage Law', Italian Yearbook of International Law, 22, pp. 133 - 153,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Lixinski L, 2013, 'Narratives of the International Legal Order and Why They Matter', Erasmus Law Review, 6, pp. 2 - 5,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Lixinski L, 2013, 'O direito do patrimônio cultural da humanidade no Brasil: bases para reforma da legislação brasileira à luz do direito internacional [Cultural Heritage Law in Brazil: foundations for reform of Brazilian legislation in light of international law]', Revista de Direito Ambiental [Environmental Law Review], pp. 135 - 160
    Journal articles | 2011
    Lixinski , 2011, 'Selecting Heritage: The Interplay of Art, Politics and Identity', European Journal of International law, 22, pp. 81 - 100,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Lixinski L, 2011, 'Partnership of the European Union with the States and regional groups of Latin America', COMMON MARKET LAW REVIEW, 48, pp. 1750 - 1752,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Lixinski L, 2010, 'Constitutionalism and the Other: Multiculturalism and Indigeneity in Selected Latin American Countries', Anuario Iberoamericano de Justicia Constitucional, 14, pp. 235 - 266
    Journal articles | 2010
    Lixinski L, 2010, 'Treaty interpretation by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Expansionism at the service of the unity of international law', European Journal of International Law, 21, pp. 585 - 604,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Lixinski L, 2009, 'Choice of Forum in International Human Rights Adjudication and the Unity / Fragmentation Debate: Is Plurality the Way Ahead?', University College Dublin Law Review, 9, pp. 23 - 45
    Journal articles | 2009
    Lixinski L, 2009, 'The Future of the EU Cultural Policy in the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage', The Prague Yearbook of Comparative Law, 1, pp. 119 - 119
    Journal articles | 2008
    Lixinski L; Marques CL, 2008, 'Treaty Enforcement by Brazilian Courts: Reconciling Ambivalences and Myths?', Brazilian Yearbook of International Law, 4, pp. 138 - 169
    Journal articles | 2008
    Lixinski L, 2008, 'Choice of Forum in International Human Rights Adjudication and the Unity / Fragmentation Debate: Is Plurality the Way Ahead?', Italian Yearbook of International Law, 18, pp. 183 - 200
    Journal articles | 2008
    Lixinski L, 2008, 'Limitando la libertad de asamblea con base en daños a terceros: El balance de libertades económicas y derechos fundamentales en la Unión Europea y en el Mercosur. [Limiting Freedom of Assembly Based on Harm to Third Parties: The Balancing of Economic Freedoms and Fundamental Rights in the European Union and MERCOSUR]', Revista de Derecho Privado y Comunitario, pp. 811 - 811
    Journal articles | 2006
    Lixinski L, 2006, 'Considerações acerca da inserção dos direitos de personalidade no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro. [Thoughts on the insertion of personality rights in the Brazilian legal order]', Revista de Direito Privado, 2006, pp. 201 - 201
    Journal articles | 2006
    Lixinski L, 2006, 'O direito moral de autor como direito de personalidade e a universalidade de sua proteção. [Author's Moral Rights as Personality Rights and the Universality of their Protection]', Revista Trimestral de Direito Civil, 2006, pp. 49 - 49
  • Other | 2018
    Lixinski L, 2018, Prefácio [Preface],
    Preprints |
    Bartl M; Tauschinsky E; Afilalo A; Christodoulidis E; Everson M; Farrand B; Gordon G; Gupta J; Kukovec D; Lixinski L; Micklitz H; Muir Watt H; Patterson D, Knowledge, Power and Law Beyond the State, ,
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    Butterly L; Lixinski L, Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Reform in Australia and the Dilemmas of Power, ,
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    Del Hierro P; Lixinski L, ‘Writing a Transnational (Global?) History of Extradition Law in the Short Twentieth Century: Beyond Western-Centric Approaches’, ,
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    Franca‐Filho MT; Lixinski L; Olmos Giupponi B, Introduction to the Law of MERCOSUR, ,
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    Franca‐Filho MT; Lixinski L; Olmos Giupponi B, Protection of Fundamental Rights in Latin American FTAs and MERCOSUR: An Exploratory Agenda, ,
    Preprints |
    Lixinski L; Jakubowski A; Barreiro Carril B; Calboli I; Chainoglou K; Davies P; Chechi A; Evelien C; Green Martinez S; Hausler K; Huang JJ; Kono T; Lee G; Lostal M; Loureiro Bastos F; Nafziger JAR; Nalule V; Orgad L; Renold M-A; Renteln AD; Sato Y; Ubertazzi BCA; Vrdoljak AF, International Law Association Committee on Participation in Global Cultural Heritage Governance - Executive Summary of Final Report (2022) (English), ,
    Preprints |
    Lixinski L, Article 11 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – Heritage Recognition, but Little Control and No Remedies, ,
    Preprints |
    Lixinski L, Between Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: the Troubled Relationships between Heritage Studies and Heritage Law,
    Preprints |
    Lixinski L, Central and South America,
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    Lixinski L, Excavating the Field of Heritage Law: Support, Renewal, and Iconoclasm, ,
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    Lixinski L, Food as Heritage and Multi-Level International Legal Governance, ,
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    Lixinski L, Heritage Listing as Self-Determination, ,
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    Lixinski L, Scholarship on the Teaching of International Law – An Overview of the State of the Art, ,
    Preprints |
    Marques CL; Lixinski L; Baquero PM, Brazil, ,

American Society of International Law's Certificate of Merit for high technical craftsmanship and utility to practicing lawyers and scholars in 2021 (for volume co-edited with Janet Blake).

My Research Supervision

In progress

Ayla Alves, 'Cultural Appropriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Analysing the Regulation of Cultural Appropriation in International Law' (with Noam Peleg).

Zvi Berkovic, 'What Are the Challenges of Palestinian Statehood within the Framework of Various International Law Regimes?' (with Sarah Williams and Anthony Billingsley).

Daniel Cater, 'Data Dislocation: Australian Policy Surrounding Transborder Data in Security and Surveilance'(with Lyria Benett Moses and Janet Chan).

Samara Hand, 'Beyond Educational Genocide: The Challenge of Redressing Legacies of Genocide against Indigenous Peoples in Education'(with Sarah Williams and Kevin Lowe).

Diogo Machado, 'Cultural Heritage Values in Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Transnational Legal Orders' (with Sarah Williams and Scott East).

Hui (Helen) Pang, 'Global Commons in International Investment Law: The Rights and Responsibilities of States and Investors in Renewable Energy Investments' (with Xiaochuan Weng and Heng Wang).

Bruno Pegorari, 'Indigenous Peoples' Voice and Reparations in International Legal Adjudication' (with Jonathan Bonnitcha and Natalie Klein).

Dany Xie, 'Arbitral Awards under the New York Convention: A Global Comparison of the Due Process Defence to the Recogniton and Enforcement' (with Jonathan Bonnitcha, Jeanne Huang, and Leon Trakman).

Completed

Bhatara Ibnu Reza, 'The Indonesian military politics and democratisation: Problems of consitutional framework and their implications with human rights and humanitarian law'(with Andrew Byrnes and Rosalind Dixon).

Abu Bangura, 'The development of the concept of Protection of Civilians (POC) in International Law: Possibilities and Challenges' (with Sarah Williams).

Zhuangsi Xu, 'The Impact of International Human Rights Law on China’s Protectionof Minority Language Rights'(with Melissa Crouch and Janet Chan).

My Teaching

  • Principles of International Law (LAWS8180)
  • Current Issues in International Law (LAWS8081)
  • Introducing Law & Justice (LAWS1052/JURD7152)
  • Law in the Global Context (JURD7270)
  • Law, Rights and Development (LAWS8192)
  • Transitional Justice in International and Comparative Perspectives (Santiago) (LAWS3348)
  • Global Common Law Systems (LAWS8214)
  • International Human Rights (LAWS8181)
  • Law in the Global Context (LAWS2270/JURD7270)
  • International Law, Human Rights, and Cultural Heritage (LAWS8067/JURD7367)