Research On The Recovery Of Looted Cultural Relics Under The International Law Perspective

As bearing the weight of the spiritual civilization of a nation and the faith of the special human heritage, cultural relics have significant meanings for a nation’s identity and internal heritage. It not only has rich values on history, culture, archaeology, science and many other aspects, but also has great economic value. Based on its huge values and scarcities, the present situation of the cultural relics illegally erosion is very serious.Protection on cultural relics and recourse problems by stolen or illegally exported cultural objects has become more and more urgent.The article studies the problems on the recovery of looted cultural relics from the respective of international law. The paper uses the horizontal analysis methods to analyze a variety of recourse on the legal paths of cultural relics and their advantages and disadvantages. Among all these paths, it mainly discusses the feasibility of the settlement of disputes in overseas lawsuit manner. So that we can provide a more reasonable measure and a more viable option for the future recourse. At the same time, by studying the experiences and lessons from the abroad, and analyzing the reality of recourse on the Buddha exhibited in the Netherlands, we can find that there are lots of improvements in our country recourse system.We discuss the recovery on the reasonable path of cultural relics and put forward in many reasonable proposals on the basis of the above content. These suggestions include perfecting the legislation for the protection on cultural relics, improving the cultural relics protection institution, strengthening international cooperation, and improving the database of cultural relics.