Alicja Jagielska-Burduk

Alicja Jagielska-Burduk

Alicja Jagielska-Burduk, PhD, MBA, legal counsellor, UNESCO Chair on Cultural Property Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Opole. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the international journal Santander Art and Culture Law Review. She specializes in cultural management, encompassing the issues of participation and access to culture and cultural heritage. In the course of her research and legal practice she has gained considerable expertise in the culture sector, including focus group analysis in relation to various stakeholders and groups of interest. She co-edited the volume on Legal Issues in Cultural Heritage Management: A Polish Perspective, (Peter Lang, 2016). In 2014, the government of Poland nominated her as a mediator at the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to Its Countries of Origin or Its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation. In 2020, she was selected as an arbitrator for the Arbitrator Pool of the first Court of Arbitration for Art (CafA) in Hague. She is a member of the Polish National Commission for UNESCO, member of National Council of Attorneys at Law in Poland and member of the Board of the Center for Research of the National Council of Attorneys at Law in Poland. She also co-chairs TIAMSA Legal within The International Art Market Studies Association, which gathers together art world professionals and scholars. She was a visiting scholar at the Law School, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in Australia, and received a UNIDROIT fellowship funded by the UNIDROIT Governing Council Members. Recently, she has been involved in the UNIDROIT Academic Project and works on the international legal status of collections of works of art.