ABSTRACT
Relying on the topics and analysis brought by the authors of this part of the volume, the introduction discusses the main issues about framing heritage and culture as a regulatory object and the main issues of doing that in English from a transnational perspective. It focuses on what it means more broadly to think of heritage in the law and reviews a few objectives behind the intellectual project of the book, such as the (de)deployment of critical heritage studies that would integrate critical law studies. In so doing, the introduction discusses how the law is an essential tool that transforms heritage in its attempts to grasp it. It brings to the discussion hermeneutics and phrasing issues that the law might disseminate from culture to culture. The introduction then presents each of the eleven chapters of this first part of the book.
