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Transnational Law

Brooklyn Law School

Journal

2021

Cultural property; cultural property law; property; property law; alternative dispute resolution; dispute resolution; mediation; arbitration; Peru; Machu Picchu; Greece; Parthenon Marbles; Elgin Marbles; Lord Elgin; cultural objects; Hattusa Sphinx; Turkey; Lydian Hoard; UNESCO; UNIDROIT; Hague Convention; Hitler; Nazi-looted art; Nazi-spoliated art; Holocaust; Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets; Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art; Spoliation Advisory Panel; Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Act; Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act; moral pressure; power pressure; antiquities; imperialism; colonization

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The Case For An International Solution To The Restitution Of Cultural Property: Morality, Legality And Righting Western Wrongs, Ariana Catarisano Dec 2021

The Case For An International Solution To The Restitution Of Cultural Property: Morality, Legality And Righting Western Wrongs, Ariana Catarisano

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

In 2020, the conversation surrounding the return of cultural property acquired during the colonial era was given new life after the world watched as Black Lives Matter activists exposed systemic racial injustice in the United States. Thousands of objects currently sit in western museums under the guise of sharing these cultures and civilizations with the world, but this brings little comfort to communities suffering the genocidal consequences of colonialism. As formerly colonized nations battle the western world for the return of their cultural property, success is often dictated by a combination of power, money, and the ability to turn the …