I am pleased to be speaking at a conference in two weeks at Georgetown University Law Center entitled Intersections in Cultural Heritage Law. The two-day conference will address developments in international human rights and cultural heritage law, intersections of criminal and civil law concerning cultural property, extraterritorial protection of cultural property, and the international movement and restitution of cultural artifacts. In addition, world heritage and the world court will be discussed.
The distinguished keynote speakers are Professor Patty Gerstenblith, Distinguished Research Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Art, Museum & Cultural Heritage Law, DePaul University College of Law, and founding President of the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation; Sir Frank Berman, former Legal Adviser to the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office; and Roger O’Keefe, Professor of Public International Law at University College London and author of the book The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict
I am speaking on the panel entitled “The International Movement and Restitution of Cultural Artifacts,” and my talk will address efforts to use United States courts to effect that restitution, as well as the policy issues that arise in those disputes.
As you can see, my co-panelists are a dazzling array of experience and intellect. I am very much looking forward to learning from them.
The conference program is reprinted below. Attendance is free of charge but registration is required. Hope to see you there.
Day 1: Tuesday, March 29, 2016, Hart Auditorium
Panel 1: International Human Rights & Cultural Heritage: Intangible Cultural
Heritage, Indigenous Cultures, and Human Remains
Vanessa Tuensmeyer, Maastricht University
Alison Renteln, University of Southern California
Christopher Frerking, University of New Hampshire School of Law & Heather Gill-Frerking, JD Candidate, Vermont Law School
Panel 2: Law of Armed Conflict & Cultural Heritage
Elizabeth Varner, U.S. Department of the Interior, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Kristin Hausler, British Institute of International & Comparative Law (BIICL)
Alberto Costi, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Response by Roger O’Keefe, University College London, Faculty of Law
Lunch Keynote: Five-Year Retrospective on the Cultural Heritage of Syria and Iraq (held in Gewirz Student Center, 12th floor)
Patty Gerstenblith, Distinguished Research Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Art, Museum & Cultural Heritage Law, DePaul University College of Law, and founding President of the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation
Panel 3: International Criminal Law & Cultural Heritage
Anne-Marie Carstens, Georgetown University Law Center
Karolina Wierczynsja, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences & Andrzej Jakubowski, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
Derek Fincham, South Texas College of Law
Panel 4: Extraterritorial Protection of Cultural Heritage
Vincent Negri, Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Lucas Lixinski, UNSW, Australia
Sabine von Schorlemer, Technical University of Dresden
Panel 5: The International Movement and Restitution of Cultural Artifacts
Rachelle Browne, Smithsonian Institution
Nick O’Donnell, Sullivan & Worcester LLP law firm
Day 2: Wednesday, March 30, 2016, Gewirz Student Center
Panel 6: World Heritage & the World Court
James Nafziger, Willamette University College of Law
Marina Lostal Becerril, The Hague University
Gabriele Gagliani, Ecole Normale Supérieur/University of Palermo/Bocconi University
Concluding Keynote: Commentary on the Case Concerning the Temple of Preah Vihear (Interpretation) (Cambodia v. Thailand)
Sir Frank Berman
Roger O’Keefe
