Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Publication Date
2005
ISSN
0098-2594
Page Number
921
Keywords
art, cultural property, regulation, international market
Disciplines
Commercial Law | International Trade Law | Law
Abstract
The market for art and cultural property is international. Demand is intense and not particularly local in terms of consumer preference. 2 Supply responds to this intense international demand. Like most anything else, art finds its way to whomever is prepared to pay for it. Regulation affects how it arrives at its ultimate destination, but generally does not prevent it from getting there. Apart from this international market, legal and policy aspects of art and cultural property have a distinctly international flavor due to historical circumstance. Since many works over time have been removed from their source by way of conquest, expropriation, or theft, claims for cross-border restoration or restitution inevitably involve international law and policy considerations. Even a simple exhibition agreement at a foreign museum may generate complex issues of domestic and international private and public law.
Recommended Citation
Jeffrey Schoenblum,
Symposium: International Legal Dimensions of Art and Cultural Property, 38 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. 921
(2005)
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