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.
“In this case, the signs of the Statue’s theft should have been obvious to a major international art dealer like Sotheby’s.” That is what the United States Attorneys Office, Southern…
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…
Sotheby’s auction house and Ruspoli di Poggio Suasa yesterday filed a motion to dismiss the forfeiture case against a Khmer statue. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara brought the seizure and forfeiture…
A federal judge sitting in the southern district court of New York yesterday denied a request by Sotheby’s for a discovery conference. That decision came in the matter of United…
As readers are aware, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York is seeking to forfeit an ancient Cambodian statute located at Sotheby’s in Manhattan. Daniel Schearf of…
U.S. District Court Judge George B. Daniels today issued a restraining order on a statue located at Sotheby’s in Manhattan. He ordered that the ancient Khmer temple statute remain at…