On January 29, 2010, ten religious folk were taken into custody after trying to smuggle a gaggle of Haitian children (nearly three dozen) across the DR border.  Just two days later, several men were arrested in Periamet, India, for stealing panchaloha idols.  No connection worth mentioning, really, ...

The Art and Cultural Heritage Law Newsletter is seeking article proposals on all things cultural property.  The newsletter is a publication of the Art and Cultural Heritage Law Committee of the ABA Section of International Law. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may remember a post about ...

The Rutter Group's annual seminar on 17200 practice will take place on Monday, March 1, 2010 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco and on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at the Los Angeles Mariott Downtown. This year, I am pleased...

Rebecca M. Kysar (Brooklyn) presents Lasting Legislation at McGill today as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Kimberly Brooks. Here is the abstract: This Article argues that, due to certain failings and pathologies of the legislative process, legislation enacted with sunset provisions ...

Rebecca M. Kysar (Brooklyn) presents Lasting Legislation at McGill today as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Kimberly Brooks. Here is the abstract: This Article argues that, due to certain failings and pathologies of the legislative process, legislation enacted with sunset provisions ...

Tom Flynn, art historian and critic of critics, is a top notch blogger — with witty, incisive, and insightful posts.  His recent post, A History of the World in Looted Objects, is no exception. The colonialist implications of encyclopedic museums may be old hat in the blogging world by now, bu ...

A Multnomah County jury ordered a medical-device company to pay $4.75 million to a Portland, Oregon, man and his wife in a product-liability lawsuit that may have national implications, according to a report in The Oregonian. The jury found I-Flow Corp. liable for destroying the cartilage in Matthe ...

Several international power companies have teamed up to donate a $1 million sustainable energy facility to Ifuego, the town central to the Banaue rice terraces in the Philippines.  The 2,000 to 6,000 year old terraces cover 4,000 square miles and were nominated as a UNESCO world heritage site in 199 ...

In a previous post, I discussed the role of Ebay in the sale of illicit cultural property.  Most often in the press, Ebay is put in a negative light, and specific instances of enabling the illicit trade are cited.  But recently, a professor at UCLA has shown Ebay may be causing a decrease in the loo ...

I highly recommend that all plaintiffs' attorneys register to attend CAOC's 4th Annual Class Action Seminar, which will take place this coming Thursday, January 28, from noon to 6:00 p.m. at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco. Registration...