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.
Baltimore Division courthouse.Source: US District Court of Maryland Lawyers for Barry Landau have filed a motion to suppress the evidence the government obtained from a search of Landau’s home. Landau is…
INTERPOL (the International Criminal Police Organization) has issued an alert to specialist dealers and coin collectors. The agency seeks to recover gold coins and plates discovered off the coast of…
While Peru currently pursues its request for an extension of American cultural property import protections under the Cultural Property Implementation Act (see this post for background), PRI’s The World and the BBC…
A recent video produced by NATOchannel.tv reports on cultural heritage in Libya in the context of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict….
Extensions of the Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with Cyprus and Peru will be taken up by the Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) at their next meeting in Washington, DC. A…
The European Commission (EC) of the European Union (EU) says in a November 29, 2011 press release that it is seeking comments on “on ways to improve the safe-keeping of cultural goods and…