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An Update on Turkey’s Cultural War

0 on January 30, 2013, 9:00 am / in archaeology law, Art Authenticity, France, Looting, Museums, Recovery, Repatriation, Turkey

Turkey is currently seeking the return of thousands of antiquities which they believe are rightfully theirs. In this pursuit, Turkish [...]

The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, is renewing its efforts to keep track and prevent the [...]

0 on November 9, 2011, 3:37 pm / in archaeology law, cultural property law, France, Museums, United Kingdom

France is refusing to allow a London gallery to retrieve a 17th century Tournier painting that they brought in to [...]

0 on October 25, 2011, 8:00 am / in archaeology law, Belgium, cultural property law, France, Germany, Museums, Repatriation

In an official ceremony last week, the United States returned the looted “Fisherman’s Daughter” painting by Jules Breton to France. [...]

1 on January 25, 2011, 7:59 am / in archaeology law, Auction Houses, cultural property law, France, Interpol, Recovery

US Homeland Security has returned a Degas painting, “Blanchisseuses Souffrant Des Dents” (Laundrywoman with an Aching Tooth), to the acting [...]

I’ve been down the rabbit hole for the past couple weeks, preparing for the Spring semester and recovering from the [...]

I’m sure you’ve heard of the recent theft of 5 paintings from the Musee d’Art Moderne in Paris. And I’m [...]

And today in cultural property law news… Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s [...]