A year into Russia’s invasion, Ukraine is fighting to protect its cultural heritage. CERL’s Prof. Claire Finkelstein participated in a Social Science Research Council (SSRC) workshop on Feb. 22, convened in partnership with the J. Paul Getty Trust, around the critically important themes of cultural heritage, violent conflict, and atrocity crimes. The group discussed the growing scholarly research in the area, including CERL’s recently published volume with Oxford University Press entitled The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War.

For a limited time, download the introduction to the volume, which explores the evolving nexus between cultural heritage and security in the twenty-first century. Download here.

Claire Finkelstein is Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She is founder and faculty director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), a non-partisan interdisciplinary institute affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC). She is a distinguished research fellow at APPC and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). Her current research addresses national security law and policy, democratic governance, and professional ethics. Read her bio here.