The contribution addresses and comments the results of a legal and policy analysis of cultural heritage law in the European Union, considering the linkages between international and human rights law, EU and Member States' law, the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union of the European Court of Human Rights, as well as social and economic perspectives of sustainable development at EU level. It stresses a series go new frontiers in the legal protection of cultural heritage that will need to be addressed in the future by policy makers and legislators both at the EU and Member States' level, and indicates a series of recommendations to improve coherence and effectiveness of cultural heritage protection in the EU area.
