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Cultural Property Law

Monographs

Most Ebooks and Online Resources accessible to  Case Law Users OnlyHeinOnline Resources and some Ebooks are available to all CWRU Users.

Anthony M. Armore and Tom Mashberg, Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists (2011). Print: Law Library Stacks N8795 .A46 2011. 

Janet Blake, Commentary on the 2003 UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural HeritageHeinOnline. 

Janet Blake, Commentary on the 2003 UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural HeritageHeinOnline. 

Kevin Chamberlain, War and Cultural HeritageAn Analysis of the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and Its Two Protocols (2004).  HeinOnline.

Chip (John Stephen) Colwell, Plundered Skulls and Stolen SpiritsInside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture (2017). Print: Law Library Stacks E98.M34 C65 2017. 

Robert M. Edsel & Brett Witter, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt Ever (2010). Print: Law Library Stacks D810 .A7 E23 2010. 

Michael Greenhalgh, Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th Century France: Old Stones versus Modern Identities (2015). Print: KSL Stacks 3rd Floor DC20.3 .G73 2015.

Imperialism, Art and Restitution (John Henry Merryman ed., 2006). Print: Law Library Stacks K3788. I47 2006.

Sidney Kirkpatrick, Hitler's Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire (2010). Print: Law Library Stacks D810.A7 K57 2010. 

Wojciech W.  Kowalski, Art Treasures amd WarA Study of the Restitution of Looted Cultural Property, Pursuant to Public International Law.  HeinOnline. 

Michael J. Kurtz, America and the Return of the Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe's Cultural Treasures (2009).  Print: Law Library Stacks D818 .K85 2009. 

Karolina Kuprecht, Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Property ClaimsRepatriation and Beyond (2014).    Ebook:  SpringerLink  CWRU.  Springer Ebook OhioLINK.

Law and the Arts (Susan Tiefenbrun ed., 1998).  Print: Law Library Stacks KF4288.A75L374 1998.

John Henry Merryman, Albert E. Elsen, & Stephen K. Urice, Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts (5th ed., 2007).  Print: Law Library Stacks KF4288.A7 N47 2007. 

John Henry Merryman, Thinking About the Elgin MarblesCritical Essays on Cultural Property, Art, and Law (2d ed., 2000). Print: Law Library Stacks K3791 .M47 2009. 

Margaret Melanie Miles, Art as PlunderThe Ancient Origins of Debate About Cultural Property (2009).  Print: Law Library Stacks N9114.M55 2009.

Neglected WitnessesThe Fate of Jewish Ceremonial Objects During the Second World War and After (Julie-Marthe Cohen & Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, eds., 2011). HeinOnline.

Patrick J. O'Keefe & Lyndel V. Prott, Cultural Heritage Conventions and Other InstrumentsA Compendium with Commentaries (2011).  HeinOnline. 

Patrick J. O'Keefe, Shipwrecked HeritageA Commentary on the UNESCO Convention on Underwater Heritage (2002).  HeinOnline. 

Lyndel V. Prott, Commentary on the UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen and Illegally Exported Cultural Objects (1995).  HeinOnline. 

Carolyn Oldsburch, Authenticity in the Art MarketA Comparative Study of Swiss, French and English Contract Law (2005). HeinOnline. 

Norman Palmer, Museums and the HolocaustLaw, Principles, and Practice (2000).  HeinOnline. 

Opritsa D. Popa, Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: The Search for the Hildebradslied and the Willehalm Codex (2003). EBSCOhost. 

Ravaged: Art and Culture in Times of Conflict (Jo Tollebeek and Eline van Assch, 2014). Print: KSL Stacks 3rd Floor N8750 .R38 2014. 

Realising Cultural Heritage Law: Festschrift for Patrick Joseph O'Keefe (2013). HeinOnline.

Returned from RussiaNazi Archival Plunder in Western Europe and Recent Restitution Issues (Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, et al., eds., 2007). Print: Law Library Stacks D810.C8 R47 2007. 

Safeguarding Intangible Cultural HeritageChallenges and ApproachesA Collection of Essays (Janet Blake ed., 2007). HeinOnline. 

Beat Schöenberger, The Restitution of Cultural AssetsCauses of Action, Obstacles to Restitution, Developments (2009). Print: Law Library Stacks K3791 .S36 2009.

William St. Clair, Lord Elgin and the Marbles (1967). Print: Kelvin Smith Library 3rd Floor NB92.S7 1967.

Irini A. Stamatoudi, Cultural Property Law and Restitution (2011). Print: Law Library Stacks K3710 .S73 2011.

Alper Tasdelen, The Return of Cultural ArtifactsHard and Soft Law Approaches (2016). Ebook: SpringerLink. 

Taking It PersonallyThe Individual Liability of Museum Personnel  (Ruth Redmond-Cooper & Norman Palmer eds., 2011).  Ebook: HeinOnline.

Helga Turku, The Destruction of Cultural Property as a Weapon of War: ISIS in Syria and Iraq (2018).  Ebook: Springer Link.