International legal aspects of the Scythian gold case
Journal: Meždunarodnoe pravosudie
Year: 2024

This article deals with decisions of the Netherlands state courts in a case regarding Crimean archaeological artefacts (“Scythian gold”). Ukraine and four Crimean museums had a dispute about to which entity the Allard Pearson Museum should return the Scythian Gold. The relevance of this question is based on the unique nature of the dispute about competing rights to cultural property of the State and non-State actors. The case in question concerns two main issues. First, the Dutch courts explored