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.
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…
ICE: Artifact returned to Peru on July 12. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported no arrests or indictments during a repatriation ceremony yesterday that returned stolen and smuggled…
The case of Jenny Rubin, et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran has been restarted in federal district court in Illinois (docket 03-cv-9370). That is because the United States Supreme…