On March 24-25, 2013, I will be attending the Art and Heritage Disputes at the University of Maastricht. The seminar website is here:
On March 25, I will speak on the topic "American Wartime Art Restitution in the 1990s and Beyond-Has it All Been Worth It?" The program highlights many other experts I look forward to hearing. The schedule includes the following speakers and topics:
Michail Risvas (University of Oxford): The Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage: Multilateral v. Bilateral Approaches
Yannick Radi (Leiden University): Identifying Culture and Shaping Expectations in International Investment Law
Anne-Marie Carstens (University of Oxford): The Protection of World Heritage Sites during Armed Conflict
Sebastian A. Green Martinez (University of Buenos Aires): Dispute Settlement Mechanisms: Standing before the International Court of Justice
Eleni Polymenopoulou (Brunel University): Cultural Rights in the Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice
Alessandro Chechi (University of Geneva): Cultural Heritage Protection through International Adjudication
Jos Van Beurden (Free University of Amsterdam): The Future of Colonial Acquisitions and Conflict Studies
Anne Laure Bandle (University of Geneva): Fakes, Fears, and Findings - Disputes over the Authenticity of Artworks
Jan Hladik (Chief of the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Protection Treaties Section): The UNESCO Draft Declaration of Principles Relating to Cultural Objects Displaced in Connection with the Second World War
Nicholas O'Donnell (Sullivan & Worcester LLP-Boston): American Wartime Art Restitution Litigation in the 1990s and Beyond- Has it All Been Worth It?
Andrzej Jakubowski (Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw): Restitution or Re-purchase? Critical Remarks on Recent Polish Art-Recovery Practice
Sabrina Urbinati (University of Milan Bicocca): Improving the Principle of Cooperation against Illegal Movements of Cultural Objects: Two Cases of Archaeological Objects Restitution from Italy to Bulgaria
Asoid Garcia-Marquez, (Lawyer at the UNESCO Office of International Standards and Legal Affairs), and Athina Papaefstratiou Fouchard, (Associate at the International Arbitration Group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Paris): The Role of UNESCO in the Resolution of Disputes Regarding the Recovery of Stolen or Illicitly Exported Cultural Property
Bruno S. Frey (Warwick Business School, Zeppelin University, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts, Switzerland and University of Zurich): Alternatives to "Legitimate Ownership" of Heritage
Craig Forrest (T.C. Beirne School of Law): Art and Heritage on Loan: The Role of Immunity in Dispute Resolution
S. I. Strong (University of Missouri): Rubin Redux: Rights Balancing in Cultural Heritage Litigation
Christa Roodt and David Carey Miller (University of Aberdeen): Stolen Cultural Property: The Implications of Vitium Reale in Private Law and Private International Law
Christian Armbruester (Free University Berlin): Private Law as an Instrument for the Protection of Cultural Property
