Please join the American Bar Association International Law Section’s Art and Cultural Heritage Committee on December 8, 2021 at 18:00 EST/ 00:00 CET/ 07:00+1 HKT for a special edition of ‘tele-#booktalk’.

‘Protecting Built Heritage in Hong Kong’ is the first comprehensive coverage of law and policy intended to protect built heritage in Hong Kong.

Topics include:
- The problems in protecting built heritage in the fast developing and densely populated world city of Asia;
- Early forms of legal protection for built heritage in Hong Kong;
-The introduction of legislation intended to protect built heritage but which facilitated its removal;
-The failure of “Grading” and heritage impact assessments;
- People power and built heritage- the effect of popular protest on the development and implementation of law and policy to protect built heritage in Hong Kong;
-The future for built heritage protection in Hong Kong.

Book details:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-5071-0

This is an open-access event.  Details are below:

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Prof. Steven Gallagher is a professor of law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Bio at:
https://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/people/prof-steven-gallagher/