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Artistic Justice: How The Executive Branch Can Facilitate Nazi-Looted Art Restitution, Paige Tenkhoff
Artistic Justice: How The Executive Branch Can Facilitate Nazi-Looted Art Restitution, Paige Tenkhoff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Eight decades after the Holocaust, many pieces of art stolen from Jewish families still sit in the state-owned museums of former Nazi-aligned regimes. In an effort to right old wrongs, plaintiffs are bringing suit in the United States against the foreign governments who retain the art under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act’s expropriation exception, which permits aggrieved plaintiffs to sue foreign countries for property that was illegally taken in violation of international law. But circuit courts are split as to whether these suits against foreign sovereigns should be allowed to go forward. This Note analyzes the divergent interpretations of the …
Hold The High-Water Line: A Transnationally Informed Coastline Protection Scheme In The United States, Charlie Spencer-Davis
Hold The High-Water Line: A Transnationally Informed Coastline Protection Scheme In The United States, Charlie Spencer-Davis
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Climate change and sea level rise degrade the environment, infrastructure, and private property along US coastlines. The magnitude of these harms will only accelerate unless the United States improves its coastal protection scheme. Informed by approaches in Israel, the United Kingdom, and China, this Note offers a dynamic solution to coastline protection by way of a federal Rolling Coastal Conservation Easements Act. The act would authorize states to develop and implement rolling easements on private coastal properties. This flexible scheme would include compensation for those landowners who grant easements to their localities, while giving private property owners the option to …
The Law Of The Tetrapods, Henry T. Greely
The Law Of The Tetrapods, Henry T. Greely
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Should there be such a thing as "Technology Law"? This Article explores that question in two ways. It first looks at four substantive issues that appear across many different areas of technology law: privacy, security, property, and responsibility. It then examines five questions that frequently recur about how to regulate very different new technologies. These questions include which agency should regulate, whether regulation should focus on before or after marketing, what jurisdiction should regulate, how relevant new information will be gained and used, and how-politically-good regulation can be enacted. This Article concludes that it may make sense to develop a …
Unintended Consequences For Reversing Rapprochement: Is The Us Government Liable For A Loss Of Us Property In Cuba?, David Kolansky
Unintended Consequences For Reversing Rapprochement: Is The Us Government Liable For A Loss Of Us Property In Cuba?, David Kolansky
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
In 2014, the United States announced a historic reopening of ties with Cuba. This effort at rapprochement included restoring diplomatic relations and easing regulatory restrictions to facilitate greater business, trade, travel, and communication between the two nations. However, the US government's decision in 2017 to reverse course and reinstate the economic embargo against Cuba could result in significant legal and financial consequences for both US claimants who hold property in Cuba and the US government. One issue that arises is whether US corporations and individuals, who invested in property in Cuba following the Obama-era easing of restrictions, have a constitutional …