Ancient Indigenous Human Remains and the Law

Fiona Batt has a LLB, LLM, PGCE (PCE) and PhD from the UK. Fiona is lecturer in International Human Rights and International Public Law at St Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT) and Project Coordinator of SAUT Human Rights Centre. She is also a former acting Dean of the University of the Gambia. She additionally spent some time at the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights as a researcher on an indigenous communities collective land titles project. Fiona is presently working on a project involving access to justice and legal education for vulnerable groups.

Introduction

PART ONE The recharacterisation of ancient indigenous human remains and ancient indigenous DNA

Chapter 1

Part TWO: Potential legal frameworks for the protection and repatriation of ancient indigenous human remains and ancient DNA: developing a litigation toolkit

Chapter 2: The status of Ancient indigenous human remains in cultural property and cultural heritage law

Chapter 3 Understanding cultural in the term cultural property and cultural heritage

Chapter 4: Ancient indigenous human remains and ancient indigenous DNA as collective heritage

Chapter 5 Ancient indigenous human remains and ancient indigenous DNA as Traditional Knowledge/Indigenous Knowledge

Chapter 6 Ancient Indigenous DNA as Intellectual Property

PART THREE

Chapter 7 A Human Rights Based Approach to the protection and repatriation of ancient indigenous human remains and ancient indigenous DNA

Chapter 8 Using strategic human rights litigation to protect and repatriate ancient indigenous human remains and ancient DNA