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.
Source: ICE American authorities participating in the Subhash Kapoor investigation today seized cultural and religious artifacts from a storage facility in Manhattan, according to the New York Post. The newspaper…
Assistant United States Attorneys Karin Orenstein and Claire Kedeshian have filed an 87 page objection in response to motions filed on April 30, 2012 by Joseph Lewis, II and Salem…
HSI seizes the dinosaur bones. Today’s court conference in the matter of United States of America v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton (2012-cv-04760) was rescheduled to September 5 after federal prosecutors…
Inside the Art of the Past gallery in New York.Source: Google Local The arrest and extradition of Subhash Kapoor has made headlines in India and garnered the attention of several…
Museum of Decorative Arts. CC Kirgyt12. Edward Fagan has filed a lawsuit to obtain artwork–alleged to have been looted by the Nazis–following a dismissal of his initial legal claim. A…
Byzantine glass lamp. U.S. State Dept. U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Treasury Department today published notice of America’s extension of import controls governing archaeological and ethnological materials…