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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Program

Friday, February 8, 2008

1:00 p.m. - Welcome

• The Evolution of Cultural Property Protection in International Law
• Restitution of Cultural Property at the End of WWII
• Stalin's Decrees and Soviet Trophy Brigades
• Legality of Soviet Displacement of Cultural Valuables under International Law

5:30 p.m. - Reception

Saturday, February 9, 2008

8:30 a.m. - Continental breakfast

• The Post-1991 Political Search to Legalize 'Compensation': the Long Battle over the Russian Law on Displaced Cultural Valuables
• The Legality and Constitutionality of the Russian Federal Law on Cultural Valuables Displaced to the USSR as the Result of the Second World War and Located on the Territory of the Russian Federation
• The Constitutionality of the Russian Federal Law on Cultural Valuables
• Status of the Russian Law under International Law

  Lunch

• Russian-German Negotiations over Displaced Cultural Valuables
• The Legal Situation with regard to German “Trophy Art” in Russia – a German Perspective'
• Non-Restitution under the Law: the Baldin-Bremen Case
• Archives: the Forgotten Restitution Achievements under the Law
• Trophy Art, Art Loans and Immunity From Seizure in both the US and UK

5:00 p.m. - Conclusions

- Appropriate breaks with refreshments will be provided -

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