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80-Year-Old Munich Man with Confiscated Trove of Nazi-Looted Art Breaks Silence
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 during the Nazi regime. During the war, Cornelius Gurlitt’s father was one of the four major art dealers for Hitler himself. The German government confiscated the trove […]
Putin Wears “Happy Smile” to Return Ancient Books to Jewish Group
June 19, 2013
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 books. The group’s leader was permitted to leave the Soviet Union in 1927 but his books ended up in the hands of the Russian government in the process. The Jewish group filed and […]
Threat of Lawsuits Stifles Expert Opinions on Art Authenticity
June 26, 2012
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 potential fortunes rise, so does the risk incurred by experts in providing such opinions. For many experts, this risk has now tipped the scale […]
How to Become an Art Lawyer: Guest Post by Leila Amineddoleh
May 1, 2012
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 with a good response. The truth is, I’m far more of a cultural property law aficionado than an art lawyer! So I solicited […]
Titanic Hull to be Sold at Auction
January 17, 2012
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 lot, further requiring that the future owner to make the artifacts available for public viewing, historical review, scientific and […]
Ancient Coin Import Restriction Test Case Dismissed
August 11, 2011
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 it by customs upon entering into the States from the UK, where the coins had been purchased, sans documentation of provenance. The argument […]
Wampanoag File Suit to Stop Wind Farm in Nantucket Sound
July 13, 2011
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 filed a complaint in the US District Court on July 6, alleging that construction of the 130-turbine offshore wind farm would be in violation […]
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