Wang Yunxia
WANG Yunxia is the professor and doctoral supervisor at Law School in Renmin University of China, and the distinguished professor in Law School, Minzu University of China. She is the director of Cultural Heritage Law Institute of RUC Law School and the holder of UNESCO Chair on Cultural Heritage Law. She also takes the vice-director of the Law Committee of China Museum Association, and vice-president of the Law Enforcement Committee of Cultural Relics of the Chinese Public Administration Society.
She received her Bachelor of Law (1984) from the East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) and worked for the department of law in China University of Political Science and Law from 1984 to 1993. Then she got her Ph.D. in Law from the Renmin University of China (RUC) in 1996 and became a teacher in RUC since then. she studied, she went to Ritsumeikan University (Japan) for advanced study of cultural property protection law in October 1997, Nottingham University (UK) international human rights law in 1999, Depaul University (USA) for cultural heritage law from September to October 2016, and University of Geneva (Switzerland) for art and cultural heritage law from May to July 2018.
Prof. WANG attended UNESCO expert meeting on the settlement of disputes concerning cultural heritage displaced during the second world war in 2000, in which the “Principles for the return of cultural objects displaced during or as a result of the Second World War” was discussed. She also attended the Jeju Summer Forum hosted by the Federation of Korean Industries in 2006 and made a Keynote Speech on Return of Cultural Properties Looted During the Second World War. Other international conferences she attended include “International workshop on Illicit Traffic of Cultural Heritage: Law, ethics and the reality” hosted by University of West Australia, as well as the international conference of “The implementation of the 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage” organized by Kent University (Canterbury, United Kingdom) in January 2015.
Prof. WANG keeps cultural heritage law as her major research area. She has undertaken over 10 research programs concerning cultural heritage law, as well as published several books and more than 50 articles, including “Textbook of Cultural Heritage Law”, “Law of Cultural Heritage: Framework and Mission”, “Cultural revitalization after catastrophe: the Qiang culture in A’er”, “Can NGOs Change the Status of Cultural Protection in China?” “On the Rights to Cultural Heritage”, “Legal Significance of ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums”, “From the Restitution of Nazi-looted Arts to the Restitution of Cultural Objects Looted by Japan during the Second World War”, “Balance of Public & Private ‘Interest: A Comparative Study on Restrictions & Compensation of the Property Rights of Cultural Relics”.
