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I’d like to take this post and discuss the problem of unintended consequences. It is a problem which plagues the rules governing antiquities and stolen art, but also international law generally. To begin we can take a few prominent examples. First, the United States has waged a decades-long “War on Drugs”, in which it has [...]
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There are a plethora of domestic and international laws which aim to stem the illicit trade in works of art and antiquities. Unfortunately they are not working at stemming the illicit trade. As Colin Renfrew, a prominent English Archaeologist has argued, in the decades since the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and [...]
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First off, many thanks to Ole and everyone here at International Law Observer for the kind invitation to post a little bit about my research on cultural heritage law. I’d like to begin by thinking about how and why we choose what to teach and study. I was interested to read the recent discussion of [...]
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