by Jessica | Mar 26, 2018 | Art Law, Crime, Cultural Heritage, Export licences, illicit trade in cultural property, National Treasures
Ancient ruins destroyed in Palmyra, Syria. Further to Part One of this article (see here.) Last week (20-21st March 2018), we also saw the European Community coming together with a joint EU-UNESCO project called “Engaging the European Art Market in the Fight...
by Jessica | Mar 26, 2018 | Art Law, Cultural Heritage, Export licences, illicit trade in cultural property
Last week, The Kingdom of Jordan announced that they are creating an anti-smuggling division to protect antiquities. (See here – https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/story/Jordan_to_create_antismuggling_division_to_protect_antiquities-SNG_112693132/.) Since the War in...
by Jessica | May 21, 2013 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Auction Sales, Crime, Cultural Heritage
The art world has watched this cultural heritage story unfold and it has a happy ending for Cambodia. This case follows in the footsteps of other recent cases concerning Museums giving back looted or stolen art work, marking a positive shift in favour of the...
by Jessica | May 13, 2013 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Cultural Heritage, Export licences, National Treasures
In May this year, the Culture Minister Ed Vaizey blocked the export of a rare suit of jewels commissioned by the Prince Regent George IV as a gift in 1816 to one of the Cotes sisters’; ladies in waiting to his daughter Princess Charlotte, to be worn on the...
by Jessica | Mar 15, 2013 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Cultural Heritage, Restitution
Whilst many museums have feared Turkey’s increasingly aggressive stance in reclaiming their cultural heritage, (museums such as The British Museum, Pergamon and Metroplitan Museum of Art have all faced recent restitution claims) at the Dallas Museum they have taken a...
by Jessica | Dec 10, 2012 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Cultural Heritage, Disputed Title, Restitution
In what has been a steady and systematic push by the Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Ertugrul Gunay on the restitution of cultural artefacts from museums of the world, has now culminated in a legal test case due to be lodged before the European Court of Human...
