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.
The recent repatriations of Cambodian cultural objects by Sotheby’s, Christie’s, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Norton Simon Museum have once again drawn public attention to at-risk Cambodian heritage. It has also…
“Archeological, historic pieces” from Japan is how the import paperwork described a Tyrannosaurus Bataar skull that illegally entered the United States. But the dinosaur head should have been classified as…
One of the Tyrannosaurus Bataar skulls seized by ICE. After news broke of the forfeiture case of United States v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton, a Bataar skull of Mongolian origin and in the possession…
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…
Antiquities from several Syrian cultural eras continue to appear on the art market. Since the last blog post describing this problem, Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International produced the above May 17,…
Eric Prokopi pleaded guilty on Thursday in a case involving the smuggling of dinosaur fossils. In a press release, Preet Bharara, the U.S. States Attorney for the Southern District of New…