The first objective of this timely reprint is to define the meaning of the term 'restitution' in international law in contrast with the other terms used in this area. The book then considers the opinions of various lawyers and academics, and the development of rules of international law relating to the return of cultural goods, alongside a study of the development of the practice of restitution. In the light of this general discussion, specific issues receive more detailed treatment, in particular the regulations of 'Allied Restitution Law,' which came into force in various forms and situations after World War II. Art Treasures and War concludes with a summary of the historical evolution of the legal model of restitution. The Appendix contains a wealth of material, including the Regulation concerning confiscation of works of art in German-occupied Poland; the Inter-Allied Declaration against Acts of Dispossession; the Final Act and Annex of the Paris Conference on Reparations; Law No. 52: Blocking and Control of Property, British Zone; General Order No. 6: Declaration of Looted Property in British Zone; Law No. 59: Restitution of Identifiable Property (US Zone); Military Government Regulations, Title 18: Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives, US Zone.

Art Treasures and War: A Study of the Restitution of Looted Cultural Property, Pursuant to Public International Law

Kowalski, Wojciech W.

Foreign & International Law

Institute of Art and Law

Cultural Heritage Statutes

Norman Palmer

Ruth Redmond-Cooper

Museums and the Holocaust: Law, Principles and Practice

This book examines the fate which befell some of the great artistic works taken during the Nazi era. It explores the ways in which such things are being regained or retained and the modern initiatives that are being taken to assist claimants.

Palmer, Norman

Arts & Photography

This book examines the problem of the illicit traffic in looted antiquities. One component analyses the current legal structure governing the international movement of looted antiquities, and the other uses qualitative interview and observational data gathered from meetings with key market figures, and site visits, to construct a scheme for understanding how buyers in the antiquities market make their purchasing choices.

Going, Going, Gone: Regulating the Market in Illicit Antiquities

Mackenzie, S. R. M.

This collection of papers, edited by Lyndel V. Prott and co-published with UNESCO, discusses the provisions of the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and presents a fascinating insight into the importance of this Convention, in particular for the Asia-Pacific area.

Finishing the Interrupted Voyage: Papers of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Workshop on the 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, 18-20 November 2003, Hong Kong SAR, China

This book - with commentaries from two of the leading experts in the law of cultural heritage - provides all the significant texts of international law on the protection of heritage and includes a short commentary on the evolution of each legal realm and on their relationship to one another. The instruments discussed include the most significant UNESCO Conventions, such as those of: 1970 on Illicit Trade * 2001 on Underwater Cultural Heritage * 2003 on Intangible Cultural Heritage * the Unidroit 1995 Convention * the Hague Convention 1954 and its two Protocols * the Convention for the Protection of the Architectural Heritage of Europe 1985 * the European Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage (Revised) 1992 * the European Landscape Convention 2000 * the Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society 2005. The book also examines a wide range of recommendations and declarations from UNESCO, the Council of Europe, and the United Nations. Color illustrations throughout demonstrate the immense diversity of heritage that is legally protected today. This book is a fundamental working tool for all cultural professionals and academics, including anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, cultural administrators, legal advisers, museum staff, and site curators.

Cultural Heritage Conventions and Other Instruments: A Compendium with Commentaries

During the Second World War Nazi agencies plundered Europe's archival heritage - from key documentation of military intelligence to trade-union records, files of Masonic lodges and Jewish Communities, and personal papers of prominent individuals.With the end of the war, the Red Army found some of the Nazi hideouts. Many of Europe's captured archives were seized a second time and rushed to Moscow, where they remained secret for almost half a century. Since 1991, negotiations took place and archival returns were finalised, including archives to France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and papers from Vienna to the Rothschild family. In the first half of this book, American historian and archival specialist Patricia Kennedy Grimsted reveals the story of the dramatic fate of those records in Nazi and Soviet hands and the post-1991 battle within Russia over their restitution.The second half of the volume brings together for the first time reports on these twice-plundered archives from each country, written by key people who took part in their return from Russia. Detailed listings of the returned holdings and their present location are included.

Returned from Russia: Nazi Archival Plunder in Western Europe and Recent Restitution Issues

The Idea of Cultural Heritage

Gillman, Derek

Photography & Video

Art litigation is an inventive field and nowhere are its claimants more resourceful than in the search for new defendants and heads of claim. This collection of essays explores an initiative that has begun to occupy increasing attention in modern claims against museums: the personal liability of individual members of museum staff for acts and omissions related to their employment. Courts in common law jurisdictions are increasingly willing to perceive and enforce both national and individual rights to recover looted art, with the result that the range of potential defendants is correspondingly widened. Trustees, directors, and curators may all now be targeted by claimants, particularly where there is concern as to the financial resources of the employing museum. Moreover, modern legislation creating offenses related to cultural property has shown an increasing tendency to expose senior officers of cultural institutions to the threat of criminal prosecution.

Taking It Personally: The Individual Liability of Museum Personnel

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Art Treasures and War: A Study of the Restitution of Looted Cultural Property, Pursuant to Public International Law

Cultural Heritage Statutes

Museums and the Holocaust: Law, Principles and Practice

Museums and the Holocaust: Law, Principles and Practice

Going, Going, Gone: Regulating the Market in Illicit Antiquities

Finishing the Interrupted Voyage: Papers of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Workshop on the 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, 18-20 November 2003, Hong Kong SAR, China

Cultural Heritage Conventions and Other Instruments: A Compendium with Commentaries

Returned from Russia: Nazi Archival Plunder in Western Europe and Recent Restitution Issues

The Idea of Cultural Heritage

Taking It Personally: The Individual Liability of Museum Personnel