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Oral Arguments Scheduled in Black Swan Case
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia We’ve been following the Black Swan case fairly closely here on the Cultural Property & Archaeology Law Blog, and in the last...
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Cultural Property Law on January 22, 2011: Mosquito Bombers, the Golden Horn,...
I’ve been down the rabbit hole for the past couple weeks, preparing for the Spring semester and recovering from the holidays, but here are a few recent happenings on the cultural property law front:...
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The Four Corners Sideshow
Federal prosecutors have entered into deals in three more of the Four Corners antiquities trafficking cases. For Meredith Smith, they’ll drop the charges if she doesn’t get charged with any other...
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Wampanoag File Suit to Stop Wind Farm in Nantucket Sound
The Wampanoag tribe has finally delivered on their long threatened lawsuit against the Department of the Interior, in an attempt to stop construction of Cape Wind in Nantucket Sound. The Wampanoag...
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Ancient Coin Import Restriction Test Case Dismissed
A Maryland federal judge dismissed the ACCG’s test case challenging federal import restrictions as to ancient coins. In February, 2010, I explained: The ACCG complains that it had 23 coins seized from...
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Titanic Hull to be Sold at Auction
On April 11, 2012, more than 5,000 artifacts from the Titanic shipwreck will be sold at auction in New York. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith ordered that the collection must be sold as a single...
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How to Become an Art Lawyer: Guest Post by Leila Amineddoleh
Leila and Tom Flynn chat on my terrace in Amelia. So many law students and lawyers have contacted me in the last few years asking how to break into the field of art law that I knew I had to come up...
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Threat of Lawsuits Stifles Expert Opinions on Art Authenticity
Several high-profile lawsuits have sparked a growing reluctance among art scholars to speak publicly about the authenticity of artwork. Such opinions can no doubt make or destroy a fortune. As these...
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Putin Wears “Happy Smile” to Return Ancient Books to Jewish Group
This is Putin’s self-described “happy smile.” There has been a long-running US-based legal conflict between Russian and the Jewish Chabad-Lubvitch movement, based in Brooklyn, over a collection of...
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80-Year-Old Munich Man with Confiscated Trove of Nazi-Looted Art Breaks Silence
1945 photo of Nazi trove of looted art An 80-year-old Munich man inherited upwards of a thousand pieces of artwork from his father, and 500 of the works are suspected to include pieces taken from Jews...
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