Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage:

The Russian Cultural Property Law in Historical Context

co-sponsored by

Harvard Law School Arts & Literature Law Society
Commission for Art Recovery
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University
Foundation for International Cultural Diplomacy
Harvard Law School European Law Research Center

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• Konstantin Akinsha, independent scholar & contributing editor to ARTnews magazine, co-author of Beautiful Loot: The Soviet Plunder of Europe's Art Treasures (1995)
• Michael Bazyler, Professor of Law & "1939" Club Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Whittier Law School, author of Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America’s Courts (2003)
• Wolfgang Eichwede, Professor and Director of the Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
• Andrea Gattini, Professor of International Law, University of Padua, author of Restitution by Russia of Works of Art Removed from German Territory at the End of the Second World War, 7 Eur. J. Int'l L. 1-88 (1996) - invited
• Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Associate of the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, author of Trophies of War and Empire: The Archival Heritage of Ukraine, World War II, and the International Politics of Restitution (2001), co-editor of Returned from Russia: Nazi Archival Plunder in Western Europe and Recent Restitution Issues (2007)
• Tobias Irmscher, legal counsel, European Patent Office, Munich; formerly research assistant to the late Prof. Dr. Dieter Blumenwitz, at the Institute of European and International Law, University of Würzburg; author of The Protection of Cultural Property in Public International Law – the case of German “Trophy Art” in Russia (in German, with English summary), in: Im Labyrinth des Rechts? – Wege zum Kulturgüterschutz , Magdeburg 15-44 (2007) - invited
• Lawrence M.Kaye, Herrick Feinstein LLP, dean of American art lawyers and author of Art Wars: The Repatriation Battle, 31 N. Y. U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 79-94 (1998)
• Michael J. Kurtz, Assistant Archivist for the Office of Records Services, National Archives and Records Administration, author of America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe's Cultural Treasures (2006)
• Nathan Lewin, Lewin & Lewin LLP, attorney for plaintiffs in Agudas Chasidei Chabad v. Russian Fed'n , 466 F. Supp. 2d 6, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 87148 (D.D.C. 2006) - invited
• Peter B. Maggs, Clifford M. and Bette A. Carney Professor of Law, University of Illinois & author, with Aleksei Nikolaevich Zhiltsov, of The Civil Code of the Russian Federation (1997)
• Harry S. Martin, Henry N. Ess Librarian & Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
• Wayne Sandholtz, Professor of Political Science, University of California at Irving, author of Prohibiting Plunder: How Norms Change (2007)
• Jost von Trott zu Solz, von Trott zu Solz Lammek Rechtsanwälte, Berlin - invited
• Detlev F. Vagts, Bemis Professor of International Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School, co-author of Transnational Business Problems (2003)
• Olga Yudina, founder member of the International Foundation of Cultural Diplomacy, doctoral thesis in progress on the topic of the Problem of International Legal Regulation of Displaced Cultural Property, St. Petersburg State University, former leading adviser of the Hermitage museum, St. Petersburg

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