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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 …