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.
IAP President James Hamilton of Ireland. Global antiquities trafficking is a crime that often goes undetected, unreported, uninvestigated, and unprosecuted. That was the message conveyed to over 400 prosecutors from…
Palmyra The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) this week published a notice reauthorizing nongovernmental assistance for cultural heritage protection in Syria. General License No….
Some of the ancient coins in dispute in U.S. v. 3 Knife-Shaped Coins. Court decisions in 2014 and 2015 rejected the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild’s (ACCG) demand to revisit legal issues already…
The Military Land and National Defense Act, more commonly known as the Military LAND Act, diminishes historic preservation. Immediately before the Memorial Day weekend, the House of Representative voted 325-98 to approve the National Defense…
[UPDATED 3/7/15: The Foreign Cultural Exchange Immunity Clarification Act (H.R. 889) has been introduced again in 2015, during the 114th session of Congress.]First adopted by the U.S. House of Representative in 2012 and…
A bill that would weaken the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) is back on Capitol Hill. Last week, California congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA-49) introduced H.R. 135, the latest incarnation of…