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The relation between international law and cities has been receiving more and more attention recently. Scholars provide accounts of local governments that invoke the norms of international law in their local legislation and policy. They write about city networ...

The seventeenth-century Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam was comprised of members coming from Spain, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Greece, France, Belgium, Morocco, and West Africa. José Da Silva Horta and Peter Mark (2011) found records of Sephardic commun...

From the 11th to 15th of November I will be visiting the United Cities and Local Governments World Congress of cities in Durban, South Africa promoted as ‘the largest gathering of mayors, presidents of associations, councillors, and local and regional practiti...

A growing number of cities profile themselves as ‘Human Rights Cities’. Rosario, Argentina, became world’s first human rights city in 1997, Gwangju, South Korea has been hosting the World Human Rights Cities Forum since 2011 and Buenos Aires has a local Secret...

Restitution cases around art and other objects continue to spark controversy as family members or direct victims of conflicts are stepping up. Every so often, the dubious provenance of an artwork becomes newsworthy, usually combined with a dispute over ownersh...