A lawyer's commentary on cultural property law and its impact on cultural property crime, antiquities trafficking, looted archaeology, illicit trade, art theft, heritage preservation, and museum risk management.
A lawyer's commentary on cultural property law and its impact on cultural property crime, antiquities trafficking, looted archaeology, illicit trade, art theft, heritage preservation, and museum risk management.
ICE: Artifact returned to Peru on July 12. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported no arrests or indictments during a repatriation ceremony yesterday that returned stolen and smuggled…
The case of Jenny Rubin, et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran has been restarted in federal district court in Illinois (docket 03-cv-9370). That is because the United States Supreme…
Dr. Arnold Peter Weiss, originally charged with a felony, pleaded guilty today in a New York state court to misdemeanor counts of attempted criminal possession of stolen property in the…
Image courtesy of officeclipart.com. Attorneys for both Sotheby’s and the United States have signed a stipulation dated June 29 to keep designated information confidential. Published on July 2 in the…
One day after the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri denied the government’s latest effort to forfeit the Ka Nefer Nefer mummy mask held at the St….
U.S. District Court Judge Henry Edward Autrey yesterday denied the government’s motion to file a new complaint to forfeit the Ka Nefer Nefer mummy mask from the St. Louis Art Museum…