Anaïs MATTEZ
Anaïs is a PhD researcher in Cultural Heritage and the Law, at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Previously, she read Law and Philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain. She started her professional legal career at UNESCO Bangkok, where she supported the organization’s work on the UNESCO 1970 Convention. She then pursued the same project at UNIDROIT, in Rome, where she investigated on the private law aspects of antiquity restituion and researched on the 1995 Convention on illicit trafficking of cultural objects.
Publications:
(2022) Ethnonationalism and Cultural Heritage Law in Myanmar. Santander Art and Culture Law Review, 217-244. https://www.ejournals.eu/SAACLR/First-View/2-2022/art/22610
(2020) Unidroit at 25: A Matter of Equilibrium. The Journal of Art Crime, 24, 85-87.
Awards:
First Prize for Memorandum on behalf of the Applicant, International & European Tax Moot Court competition 2014 (KULeuven)
Award of HKU Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS)