Events: Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation Conference on Friday, March 25, 2016

The Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (LCCHP) has announced the program for its its Seventh Annual Conference on Friday, March 25, 2016 at Fordham University School of Law in New York City.

The event is co-sponsored by the Fordham Art Law Society. The panelists are an impressive array of distinguished practitioners and officials, and it promises to be a lively and stimulating event.

Conference Program

Opening Keynote Address

Lawrence Kaye, Partner and Co-Chair of Herrick, Feinstein's International Art Law Group

Panel 1: The Parthenon/ Elgin Marbles: New Perspectives on a Centuries-Old Dispute

Moderator: Leila Amineddoleh, Partner at Galluzzo & Amineddoleh LLP; Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law and St. John's University School of Law

James Cuno, President and Chief Executive Officer, The J. Paul Getty Trust

Professor Clemente Marconi from the History of Greek Art and Archaeology at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts

Kevin P. Ray, Of Counsel in the Chicago office of the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Irini A. Stamatoudi, General Director, Hellenic Copyright Organization, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports

Moderator: Elizabeth Varner, Staff Curator, U.S. Department of the Interior, Interior Museum Program; Adjunct Professor, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law; Board Member, Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation

Matthew Bogdanos, Assistant District Attorney, Manhattan, Colonel, United States Marine Corps Reserve, and author "Thieves of Baghdad"

Pierre Ciric, Founder of the Ciric Law Firm, PLLC specializing in commercial litigation and immigration services for businesses and individuals

Howard N. Spiegler, Partner and Co-Chair of Herrick, Feinstein's International Art Law Group

Lunch and Interview

Susan DeMenil, Documentary filmmaker; President & Director, Byzantine Fresco Foundation

Deborah Lehr, Director, The Antiquities Coalition

Boguslaw Winid, Ambassador of Poland to the United Nations

Panel 3: Conflict-Related Looting and Destruction of Cultural Property: Is Current Policy Working?

Moderator: Channah Norman, George Washington University, Museum Studies Program

Evan Ryan, Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs.

Brian I. Daniels, Ph.D., Director of Research and Programs and lecturer in the Anthropology Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kate Fitz Gibbon, providing services in the areas of art, museum law, cultural heritage law, and estate planning, Santa Fe , New Mexico.

Sandra Cobden, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Christie's.

Moderator: Thomas R. Kline, Of Counsel, Andrews Kurth LLP; Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University Museum Studies Program; Interim President for the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation

Professor Dieter Fritsch, Institute for Photogrammetry at the Universitaet Stuttgart

Marinos Ioannides, Ph.D., Cyprus Technical University and Project Manager, Initial Training Network - Digital Cultural Heritage or other representative of ITN-DCH and Project Mosul.

Professor Roko Žarnić, University of Ljubljana and co-coordinator of ECTP Focus Area Cultural Heritage (FACH)

Closing Remarks

Reception