Center for Art Law

By Timothy Chung. “Time is lost, which never will renew.” Vergil, The Georgics, Book 3. [1] As those who bring claims under the ..read more

By Jacqueline Crispino. “Beauty will save the world” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot. Is there a saving grace in the Bouvier Affair? Or ..read more

By Hannah Tager. In the Summer 2019, the Center for Art Law hosted its first charitable auction, during which it considered: how can ..read more

By Lukiana Pilyugin. The earth’s largest land mammals are irreplaceable, and so are their ivory tusks. The demand for ivory in ..read more

By Cates Saleeby. In late 2018 and the first half of 2019, there have been two major developments in the European Union’s regulation of ..read more

By Jacqueline Crispino. When Cornell University Library attempted to digitize 343 “in-copyright but out-of-print monographs” in 2005, ..read more

By Laurel Wickersham Salisbury. Art both creates and possesses cultural value, but this value can also be monetized, and, increasingly in ..read more

By Timothy Chung. In 2018, GQ magazine published a piece on Chinese state (“Beijing”) efforts to repatriate looted antiquities, ..read more

Every year, Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London runs a two-part series of Art Law courses in which different topics in art law are ..read more

By Hannah Tager. Both emerging and established artists are reporting more and more cases of censorship by platforms like Facebook and ..read more