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.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are once again urged to adopt an Emergency Protection of Egyptian Cultural Antiquities Act (EPECAA). A law implementing import restrictions on trafficked ancient Egyptian heritage is needed because the…
Credit: Ante Vecik Last week’s agreement between the U.S. government and Sotheby’s auction house to repatriate a 10th century sandstone sculpture continues to be widely publicized. Chasing Aphrodite has a recent…
The Eight Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled oral arguments for January 13, 2013 in the case of U.S. v. Mask of Ka Nefer Nefer. The case involves federal prosecutors’ efforts to…
After a bitter court battle flared to new heights in September, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and Sotheby’s today proposed an agreement to repatriate…
An antiquities gallery and its manager entered agreements with federal prosecutors last week to plead guilty to obstruction of justice under 18 U.S.C. ยง 1512(c)(2). U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer The U.S….
The importance of Wednesday’s guilty plea by Aaron Freedman in the Kapoor heritage trafficking case must not be overlooked. Freedman, the manager of Subhash Kapoor’s Art of the Past gallery…