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.
Florida federal court, southern district Edward Fagan filed a lawsuit in April against the Czech Republic and two of its cultural institutions on behalf of Victims of Holocaust Art Theft,…
The federal court for the eastern district of the United States has denied the prosecution’s request to reopen the St. Louis Art Museum Ka Nefer Nefer mummy mask case. Click…
Getty MusuemSource: Jelson 25 (public domain) The Getty Museum and the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America this past Thursday told a Los Angeles County superior court…
Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. Saying that the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals got it right, the U.S. Solicitor General told the Supreme Court last week to reject the…
“The order of the district court should be affirmed.” That is the simple conclusion written in the Harvard Art Museums’ appellate brief filed yesterday in the case of Rubin et…
The prosecution has more particularly identified the laws it will use to prosecute Joseph A. Lewis, II and Salem Alshdaifat, both indicted last year by a New York federal grand…