RESEARCH

research & PUBLICATIONS

My scientific research on the legal protection of the underwater cultural heritage is mainly done as Professor of Public International Law at the Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain) and as Director of its Centro de Estudios de Derecho y Relaciones Internacionales (CEDRI).

From the list below you can retrieve more information or download the text of most of my publications on the international legal protección of the underwater cultural heritage. Some of them are, due to copyright reasons, in a 'pre-edited' version. You may find the the final, published version in each respective journal. Some of them could be forwaded to you under petition.

orcid.org/0000-0003-4579-7730

Culverine recovered from the archaeological site of the Spanish Royal Navy Frigate Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes
(Naval Museum, Madrid)

Memorial plaque submerged on the maritime grave of the Mercedes in the Atlantic Ocean
(Ministry of Defence, Spain)

BOOKS

Maritime Claims and Underwater Archaeology. When History meets Politics
(Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2021) [ISBN: 9789004504462]
La protección internacional del patrimonio cultural subacuático (con especial referencia al caso de España) (Valencia, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2004, 661 pp.) [ISBN 8484561097]

Libro Verde del Plan Nacional de Protección del Patrimonio cultural subacuático español (Cartagena, Ministerio de Cultura, 2010) [with other authors]

ARTICLES AND NOTES

"La reclamación española sobre los galeones hundidos frente a las costas de los Estados Unidos de América: El caso de La Galga y la Juno”, in 52 Revista Española de Derecho internacional (2000/1), pp. 247-253

“La rivendicazione spagnola per i galeoni affondati di fronte alle coste degli Stati Uniti d’America: il caso de La Galga e della Juno”, in 56 La Comunitá Internazionale (2001), pp. 251-225

“La Convención sobre la protección del patrimonio cultural subacuático, de 2 de noviembre de 2001”, in 54 Revista Española de Derecho Internacional (2002/1), pp. 475-481

Commentary to Eke BOESTEN, Archaeological and/or Historic Valuable Shipwrecks in International Waters. Public International Law and What it Offers (The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2002, 256 pp.), in 15 European Journal of International Law (2004), pp. 603-605

“Legal Status of Sunken Warships ‘Revisited’ ”, in 9 Spanish Yearbook of International Law (2003), pp. 61-101

“Spain”, in DROMGOOLE, S. (ed.), The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: National Perspectives in Light of the 2001 UNESCO Convention, Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006, pp. 271-295

“Algunos problemas jurídicos alrededor de la HMS Sussex”, in PÉREZ BALLESTER, J. & PASCUAL BERLANGA, G., Comercio, Redistribución y fondeaderos. La navegación a vela en el Mediterráneo, Actas de las V Jornadas de Arqueología Subacuática, Valencia, Server de Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2007, pp. 537-550

“España y el patrimonio cultural subacuático: algunos problemas jurídicos”, in 10 Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Granada (2007), pp. 203-238

“La definición del patrimonio cultural subacuático en la Convención UNESCO de 2001”, in PH. Boletín del Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico (2008), pp. 100-109

“La protección jurídica internacional del patrimonio cultural subacuático”, in AA.VV. (eds.), Arqueología Náutica Mediterrània. Monografies del CASC, Barcelona, Museo d’Arqueologia de Catalunya, 2009, pp. 35-46

“Treasure hunters, sunken State vessels and the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage”, in 25 The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (2010), pp. 209-236

“Protección en el espacio iberoamericano del patrimonio subacuático y convenios de la UNESCO”, in FERNÁNDEZ LIESA, C. & DÍAZ BARRADO, C. (dirs.), Los convenios UNESCO, la cooperación cultural y los procesos de integración en Iberoamérica, Madrid, Civitas/Thomson, 2011, pp. 125-154

“Spain’s position having ratified the UNESCO Convention”, in JNAPC, Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage in International Waters adjacent to the UK, Proceedings of the Burlington House Seminar November 2010, JNAPC, 2011, pp. 38-45

“La protection du patrimoine culturel subaquatique dans la Méditerranée”, in DE FARAMIÑAN GILBERT, J.M. & GUTIÉRREZ CASTILLO, V. (eds.), Coopération, Sécurité et Développement durable dans la mer Méditerranée, Paris, Pedone, 2013, pp. 35-62

“The Titanic as underwater cultural heritage: challenges to its legal international protection”, 44 Ocean Development & International Law (2013), pp. 96 – 112 [with Ole Varmer]

“The contiguous zone as archaeological zone”, in 29 The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law(2014) 1-51

“La protection juridique du patrimoine culturel subaquatique: préoccupations et propositions”, in Annuaire du droit de la mer (2014) pp. 133-153

“Underwater Cultural Heritage”, in Oxford Bibliographies [on line resource]

“The protection of underwater cultural heritage: The case of Spain”, in J.M. Sobrino Heredia (dir.), The contribution of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to good governance of the oceans and seas, Papers of the International Association of the Law of the Sea (Naples, Editorial Scientifica, 2014) 689-701

“The legal protection of underwater cultural heritage: concerns and proposals”, in C. Esposito, J. Kraska, H.N. Scheiber and M.S. Kwon (eds.), Ocean Law and Policy: Twenty Years of Development under the UNCLOS Regime (The Hague: Brill/Nijhoff, 2015), pp. 124-147

“Patrimonio cultural subacuático español ante tribunales extranjeros o internacionales: Los casos de la Mercedes y del Louisa”, en 19 Anuario de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2015), pp. 47-77

“Regarding «Les épaves de navires en haute mer et le droit international. Le cas du Mont-Louis» by Guido Starkle (1984/1985-I) : «Sensitive» wrecks : protecting them and protecting from them”, en Revue belge de droit international (2015/1-2), pp. 74-88

“Exporting Environmental Standards to the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage in the Area”, in J. Crawford, A.G. Koroma, S. Mahmoudi & A. Pellet (eds.), The International Legal Order: Current Needs and Possible Responses – Essays in Honour Djamchid Momtaz (The Hague: Brill/Nijhoff, 2017), pp. 255-273

“In Situ Preservation of Underwater Cultural Heritage as an International Legal Principle”, en 13/1 Journal of Maritime Archaeology (2018), pp. 67-81

“Spain and marine protected areas: recent developments”, in 33/4 The International Journal of Coastal and Maritime Law (2018), pp. 67-81

“La convention UNESCO pour la protection du patrimoine culturel subaquatique: une évalution dix ans après son entrée en vigueur”, in 23 Annuaire du droit de la mer (2018), pp. 197-211

"The notions of 'preferential rights' and 'interests' in the protection of the underwater cultural heritage", 38 Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales (2019), pp. 1-37