I am proud to announce the publication in the Chapman Law Review of my article: “Turnabout is Foul Play: Sovereign Immunity and Cultural Property Claims,” which you can link to here. The abstract of the article is below.
Chapman Law Review Article Spotlights Recent Supreme Court Missteps on Sovereign Immunity and Cultural Property, Calls for Congress to Act
Topics: Second Hickenlooper Amendment, Act of State, Nazi-looted art, Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, FSIA, expropriation exception”, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(3), Genocide Convention, Nazi-confiscated art, F.R.G. v. Philipp, domestic takings, Chapman Law Review, Turnabout is Foul Play, Sovereign Immunity and Cultural Property Claims, Roberts Court, Taline Ratanjee, Greg Mikhanjian, Anna Ross, Amber Odell, Sara Morandi
Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025 Would Extend Prior Law on Nazi-era Art Claims, Overrule Supreme Court on Sovereign Immunity
Seven bipartisan sponsors introduced the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025 on May 22, 2025, as Senate Bill 1884. The bill would extend provisions of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act (HEAR Act) of 2016 with respect to the statute of limitations on Nazi-era art recovery claims in U.S. courts, and would rebuke the Supreme Court’s disastrous ruling in 2021 that Nazi art loss victims from Germany were not the subject of takings in violation of international law. The bill is an important step in Holocaust-era art claims and should be passed.
Topics: laches, Act of State, Statute of Limitations, Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act, Richard Blumenthal, HEAR Act, Genocide Convention, Nazi-confiscated art, F.R.G. v. Philipp, Marsha Blackburn, Eric Schmidt, Katie Boyd Britt, domestic takings, Cory Booker, Thomas Tillis, Chapman Law Review, forum non conveniens, John Fetterman