Tatiana Flessas teaches Cultural Property and Heritage Law, Property Law, Land Law, and Legal Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science.  Dr. Flessas’s research is in the area of cultural property and legal theory, focusing on the emergence of cultural property regulation and heritage legislation as discourses of modernity.  She has written on the problems of defining cultural property, the controversy surrounding the ownership of the Parthenon Marbles, and the issues that arise when requests to repatriate ancient objects or skeletons are made of museums and governments.  Her work draws on modern philosophy from Nietzsche onwards, as well as on literary theory. She is currently engaged in a major research project on the changing role of the museum and how law should support museum development.