mr. V.M. (Vanessa) Tünsmeyer, Dr
Assistant Professor
Telephone:
E-mail:
v.m.tunsmeyer rug.nl
Field/Discipline
Expertise
- Cultural rights
- Indigenous rights
- The return/ repatriation of colonial-era cultural heritage
- Cultural heritage/ art law (in particular UNESCO treaties and comparative perspectives on questions of return/ restitution and repatriation of cultural heritage)
Other research interests comprise: Indigenous and Aboriginal Laws and Human rights law more broadly conceived (International, European and comparative).
Principle Investigator of the SHIELD M[e] project ("Shall not be denied" -Indigenous Peoples and Empirical Legal Research of Minority Cultural Rights), financed by an NWO XS grant
- Indigenous rights
- The return/ repatriation of colonial-era cultural heritage
- Cultural heritage/ art law (in particular UNESCO treaties and comparative perspectives on questions of return/ restitution and repatriation of cultural heritage)
Other research interests comprise: Indigenous and Aboriginal Laws and Human rights law more broadly conceived (International, European and comparative).
Principle Investigator of the SHIELD M[e] project ("Shall not be denied" -Indigenous Peoples and Empirical Legal Research of Minority Cultural Rights), financed by an NWO XS grant
Other positions
- Academic Co-Lead, Group 'Conflict, Environment & Justice' - Research Theme Development Security & Justice, Rudolf Agricola School RUG
- Member NNHRR (Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research)
- Member VKCR (Vereniging Kunst Cultuur Recht)
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