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Editorial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2010

Kurt Siehr
Affiliation:
University of Zürich, Faculty of Law, Wiesenstr. 9, CH-8OO8 Zürich, Tel: 0041-1-257-3112, Fax: 0041-1-382-O285
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Copyright © International Cultural Property Society 1996

References

Notes

1 Cp. the text infra at p. 155.

2 Convention of 18 March 1965, 575 U. N. T S. p. 159.

3 Arbitration between States, State Enterprises, or State Entities, and Foreign Enterprises, in: 63 II Yearbook of the Institute of International Law 324 (Session of Santiago de Compostela 1989).

4 Reprinted in 19 Yearbook Commercial Arbitration 338 (1994).

5 569 N. E.2d 426 (N. Y. 1991).

6 658 F. Supp. 688 (S. D. N Y. 1987); 836 F2d 103 (2d Cir. 1987); relief under Rule 60 F. R. C P. granted 804 F. Supp. 539 (S. D. N Y. 1992); 24 F.3d 416 (2d Cir. 1994) (pending revised opinion); reversed 38 F.3d 1266 (2d Cir. 1994).

7 Cp. Siehr, Kulturgüter als res extra commercium im internationalen Rechtsverkehr, in: Lebendiges Recht – Von den Sumerern bis zur Gegenwart. Festschrift für Reinhold Trinkner, Heidelberg 1995, pp. 703 et seq.

8 This happened in Swiss court proceedings in which Turkey sued for return of allegedly illegally exported tomb stones. The appeal in this case is still pending with the Federal Court.

9 845 F. Supp. 544 (N. D. III. 1993).

10 18 U. S. C. §§ 2314–15 (1988 and Suppl. 1990). Also the hiding and retaining of war booty may be punishable under the National Stolen Property Act. Cp. David D'Arcy, US indicts war booty sellers. Brother and sister of the US soldier who stole the Quedlinburg treasure to face possible imprisonment, 7 The Art Newspaper, February 1996, pp. 1 and 5.

11 Convention and Protocol of 14 May 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, 249 U. N. T S. p. 215.

12 Cp. Chronicles, infra p. 209 under December 1995, with respect to exchanges of certain paintings between the Czech Republic and the Slovakian Republic.

13 The papers of this conference are published in: University of British Columbia Law Review 1995 Special Issue. Material culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property. Vancouver, B. C.: U. B. C. Law Review Society 1995. 345 pp.