ABSTRACT
National and international lawmakers are currently paying increasing attention to crimes against ‘cultural heritage’, and particularly trafficking in ‘cultural property’. Both expressions, however – and particularly the former, which has in recent years become largely preferred over ‘cultural property’1 as more capable of conveying the true essence of this ‘universal community’s interest’2 – appear to suffer from an unavoidable vagueness,3 which poses some problems when such terminology is transferred to the field of criminal law with its requirements of clear and precise definition of offences.
