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Looted Art and Cultural Property


About Us - Commission for Looted Art in Europe

... looted cultural property and the tracing of its rightful owners. It provides a Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945 at www ...

Cultural Property - Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

Import restrictions that prevent stolen objects from entering the United States. Programs that build capacity, strengthen site protection, enhance inventories, ...

Looted art and restitution: a changing cultural climate | Mishcon News

Recent years have seen a shift in the perception of looted cultural property, and a significant increase in restitution.

Restitution: Cultural Property - Mark B. Feldman international law

My restitution practice has focused on (1) trade in ancient art and antiquities; (2) Nazi-looted art, and (3) property rights of artists, heirs and related ...

The Debate Around The Restitution Of Cultural Property - Opinio Juris

... cultural objects and the market of art and antiquities. My objective ... Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects of 1995. Each of ...

Michigan Journal of International Law

... art during World War II, and the collections were never fully restored. Invading forces loot cultural property as a tactic: the Nazis looted ...

Legal aspects concerning the restitution of cultural property removed ...

Following that precedent, in 1874, 15 European powers sought to prohibit the looting and confiscation of works of art during war through the ...

Nazi-Looted Art and Archives: Recovering and Preserving Jewish ...

... and personal assets. Join Jonathan Brent and Howard Spiegler for a discussion on the quest to recover and preserve these cultural treasures.

Fight Illicit Trafficking (1970 Convention) - UNESCO

Theft, looting and illicit trafficking of cultural property is a crime. It deprives people of their history and culture, it weakens social cohesion in the long ...

France passes law allowing museums to return Nazi-looted art

The legislation covers cultural property proven to have been stolen between 30 January 1933 and 8 May 1945. According to the Ministry of Culture ...

Cultural Property: General Web Resources - Research Guides

The FBI has a special team of 13 agents dedicated to investigating art and cultural property crimes and recovering stolen art and antiquities.

Looted Art In Museums & The Restitution Cases Setting Them Free

... cultural property law differs from common stolen property law. In 1939 the artwork was appropriated from Bondi by a Nazi-party member and ...

Closing U.S. Markets to Illicit Antiquities

... looted and stolen cultural objects to ... Newly Signed Cultural Property Agreement Will Shut the American Art Market to Illicit Antiquities from Tunisia.

THE WAR ON ANTIQUITIES: UNITED STATES LAW AND FOREIGN ...

53 See James Cuno, U.S. Art Museums and Cultural Property, 16 CONN. J ... of cultural property looted in a foreign state and criminal prosecution. 91 ...

1995 Convention - UNIDROIT

UNIDROIT CONVENTION ON STOLEN OR ILLEGALLY EXPORTED. CULTURAL OBJECTS. (Rome, 24 June 1995). THE STATES PARTIES TO THIS CONVENTION,.

Art and International Cultural Property - SMU Scholar

While progress in ratifications and implementations of international conventions con- tinued this year, restitutions and claims concerning looted art works ...

Was 2023 the Year Looted Art Returned Home?

It expects its cultural property to be returned." Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. It is not just art getting repatriated from museums, ...

Museums and the Restitution of Cultural Property - Anthropology News

Restitution of cultural property is the term used by experts to refer to looted art or displaced cultural assets displaced from or to ...

On the Restitution of Jewish Cultural Property Looted in World War II

then arising is whether such works of art, when plundered from Jews, should be treated merely as "the cultural property of Jews" or as "Jewish cultural property ...

Cultural Antiquities Task Force

... looting and destruction of cultural property around the world ... FBI Nat'l Stolen Art File · INTERPOL Stolen Works of Art · ICOM Red Lists · Nat'l Cultural ...


Looted art

Looted art has been a consequence of looting during war, natural disaster and riot for centuries. Looting of art, archaeology and other cultural property may be an opportunistic criminal act or may be a more organized case of unlawful or unethical pillage by the victor of a conflict.