Category: Events and Conferences

Forthcoming Symposium at De Paul in October:

8th Annual Symposium
Acquiring and Maintaining Collections of Cultural Objects: Challenges
Confronting American Museums in the 21st Century

Museums face increasingly difficult challenges in collecting cultural
objects-challenges that must be dealt with in ways that are consistent
with best practices. On October 16, 2008, DePaul University College of
Law will hold a major conference where leading experts will examine the
basic rules of nonprofit museum governance and how those rules apply to
the growing challenge of collecting cultural property in light of new
laws, court decisions and professional ethical guidelines; evolving
museum practices and standards in collecting antiquities; sovereign
immunity and immunity of art works; and the need for further standards
for donor/collector museum relationships.

OCTOBER 16, 2008
DePaul Center, Room 8005
1 E. Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois
8:30 AM – 5:30 PM

Registration

www.law.depaul.edu/museum http://ciplit.cmail2.com/l/499054/615d46d4/j>

Co-sponsors

Andrews Kurth LLP http://ciplit.cmail2.com/l/499054/615d46d4/t>
The Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation
http://ciplit.cmail2.com/l/499054/615d46d4/i>
Herrick Feinstein http://ciplit.cmail2.com/l/499054/615d46d4/d>

DePaul University College of Law is an accredited Illinois MCLE
provider. The Symposium has been approved for 6 hours of CLE credit.

Featured Speakers

Joseph Brennan
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/museum_info/executive_profiles_brennan.htm>
, Vice President and General Counsel, Field Museum of Natural History

Patty Gerstenblith
http://www.law.depaul.edu/faculty_staff/faculty_information.asp?id=16>
, Professor, DePaul University College of Law

Julie Getzels, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Art
Institute of Chicago

Gary T. Johnson, President, Chicago Historical Society

Thomas Kline
http://www.law.depaul.edu/centers_institutes/ciplit/museum/kline.asp> ,
Partner, Andrews Kurth LLP

Stephen J. Knerly, Jr. Esq., Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

Jennifer Kreder
http://www.law.depaul.edu/centers_institutes/ciplit/museum/kreder.asp>
, Professor, Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law

Richard Leventhal
http://www.law.depaul.edu/centers_institutes/ciplit/museum/leventhal.as
p> , Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Jane Levine, Senior Vice President and Worldwide Director of Compliance,
Sotheby’s

Louise Lincoln, Director, DePaul University Art Museum

Dan Monroe
http://www.law.depaul.edu/centers_institutes/ciplit/museum/monroe.asp>
, Director, Peabody Essex Museum

Rhoda Rosen, Director, Spertus Museum

John Russell, Professor, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Howard Spiegler, Partner, Herrick Feinstein, New York

Martin Sullivan, Director, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

Susan M. Taylor, Former Director, Princeton University Art Museum

Stephen Urice, Professor, University of Miami School of Law

Laina Lopez, Attorney, Berliner Corcoran & Rowe

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Program starts at 8:30 a.m. and reception will follow at 4:30 p.m.

For more information go to www.law.depaul.edu/museum
http://ciplit.cmail2.com/l/499054/615d46d4/1> or contact:

Ellen Gutiontov, Esq., Associate Director CIPLIT
eguti…@depaul.edu or (312) 362-5124

Vadim Shifrin, Assistant Director, CIPLIT
vshif…@depaul.edu or (312) 362-8415

DePaul University College of Law
http://ciplit.cmail2.com/l/499054/615d46d4/h>
25 East Jackson Boulevard * Chicago * Illinois * 60604 * 312.362.8701

Tomorrow afternoon I will be presenting a short paper at the British Society of Criminology 2008 Conference in Huddersfield along with Carolyn Shelbourn and Simon Mackenzie. It should be a great panel, I’m looking forward to both the other presentations, and I’ll post a short summary of my talk and the panel on Thursday. For any who may be attending, the information on the panel is here:

1.7 ART CRIME: UK AND US RESPONSES TO ANTIQUITIES LOOTING

Simon MacKenzie, University of Glasgow
PERFORMATIVE REGULATION: THE CRIMINALISATION OF
DEALING IN ILLICIT CULTURAL OBJECTS AS A CASE STUDY OF
THE INTERSECTION OF POLITICAL AND TRADE INTERESTS.

Carolyn Shelbourn, University of Sheffield
MAKING THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME – ‘ARCHAEOLOGICAL
VALUE’ AND THE ASSESSMENT OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL
PENALTIES FOR ‘TIME CRIME’ IN THE UNITED STATES.

Derek Fincham, University of Aberdeen
CAN INCREASED CRIMINAL PENALTIES EVER SUBSTANTIALLY
IMPACT THE ILLICIT TRADE IN ANTIQUITIES: WHAT THE US CAN
LEARN FROM UK CULTURAL POLICY

Chair and panel leader: Simon MacKenzie, University of Glasgow

For those of you in the UK in July, there are a couple of promising seminars taking place which the Institute of Art and Law has alerted me to:

3rd July (afternoon) in London: Good faith, Due Diligence and Ethical Imperatives in Art and Antiquities Dealing.

17th and 18th July in London State Immunity, Anti-Seizure and Customary International Law. Day One of this seminar will consider International Law and cross-border claims to cultural objects, whilst Day Two will focus more particularly on Anti-seizure statutes and safe conduct for itinerant art. Whilst the discussions on the two days will clearly interconnect and complement each other, a limited number of one-day places will be available on each day.

Further information on these seminars, together with online booking facilities, can be found at www.ial.uk.com. Alternatively, you can contact us directly on info@ial.uk.com or +44 (0)1982 560666.