My article “Chabad Library Case and Russian Art Loan Embargo Roil International Waters” was published in the June 4, 2013 edition of Bloomberg BNA - The United State Law Week. My article reviews the history of the Chabad Lubavitch library dispute and its impact on international relations and the art world. The article is linked here, reproduced with permission from the United States Law Week, Copyright © 2013 by the Bureau of National Affairs.
The case has had no procedural developments since the contempt finding in January (and fines that have now accrued into the millions of dollars), but the some of the library itself was recently transferred to Moscow’s new Jewish museum. The Russian government has announced that as the end of it, but that is hardly the case.
