By James A Sweeney [James A Sweeney is Professor of International Law at Lancaster University, UK] The idea behind this piece was to use the issue of post-conflict restitution as a particular example of the complex relationship between proclaimed best-practice, emerging international standards, and actual law in post-conflict contexts. I have written about restitution in my 2012 monograph on the ECHR (now in paperback!), but this chapter was a chance to get deeper into the topic, and also to look at a wider range of international comparative materials (although this brief comment will again concentrate on the European dimension). There…