Featured Art Law Online CLEs
Lincoln, Napoleon and Hitler Walk Into A Bar: Does the 1907 Hague Convention on Land Warfare Require Signatory Countries To Open Courts To Claims For Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art? (Presented by the Federal Bar Association Veterans and Military Law and International Law Sections)
Raymond J. Dowd, Partner
Do statutory bars to Holocaust victim families recovering looted artworks violate the international law of war? Our speaker explores this question. Article 47 of the 1899 and 1907 Hague Conventions on Land Warfare forbids pillage. Article 56 requires "legal proceedings" for seizures of artworks. Following World War II, using statutes of limitations and acquisitive prescription,…
