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Protecting Against Plunder: The United States And The International Efforts Against Looting Of Antiquities, Asif Efrat
Protecting Against Plunder: The United States And The International Efforts Against Looting Of Antiquities, Asif Efrat
Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers
In 1970 UNESCO adopted a convention intended to stem the flow of looted antiquities from developing countries to collections in art-importing countries. The majority of art-importing countries, including Britain, Germany, and Japan, refused to join the Convention. Contrary to other art-importing countries, and reversing its own traditionally-liberal policy, the United States accepted the international regulation of antiquities and joined the UNESCO Convention. The article seeks to explain why the United States chose to establish controls on antiquities, to the benefit of foreign countries facing archaeological plunder and to the detriment of the US art market. I argue that the concern …
Perspectives On The Organisation And Control Of The Illicit Traffic In Antiquities In South East Asia, Christine Adler, Duncan Chappell, Kenneth Polk
Perspectives On The Organisation And Control Of The Illicit Traffic In Antiquities In South East Asia, Christine Adler, Duncan Chappell, Kenneth Polk
Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)
We intend addressing three issues in till paper. First we will describe in detail not available elsewhere the patterns that are found in the illicit traffic in antiquities that flow out of Southeast Asia in particular from Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar Thailand and Vietnam. Second, we shall examine the focus of organized crime that have emerged in order to support that traffic. Third, we will propose initiatives that are both focused on the demand end of the market chain (rather than on the supply end), and on tho e approaches than give emphasis to persuasion' rather than punishment and prohibition.