Spoils of war v. cultural heritage
Subtitle: the Russian cultural property law in historical context
By: guest ed., Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: West Nyack, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 491
Subjects: Cultural property; Congresses; Protection; Law and legislation; Repatriation; Art treasures in war; Cultural policy; Restitution; Cases; World War, 1914-1918; Confiscations and contributions; World War, 1939-1945; Destruction and pillage; War reparations; War (International law); Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage: the Russian Cultural Property Law in Historical Context (2008 : Cambridge, Mass.)
Other titles: Russian cultural property law in historical context; International journal of cultural property. Special issue. v. 17, no. 2.
Notes: Based on the Harvard Law School Symposium, "Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage: the Russian Cultural Property Law in Historical Context," convening in February 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Charles A. Goldstein; title: Introduction / Patricia Kennedy Grimsted; title: Plunder, restitution, and international law / Wayne Sandholtz; title: The Allied struggle over cultural restitution, 1942-1947 / Michael J. Kurtz; title: Stalin's decrees and Soviet Trophy Brigades: compensation, restitution in kind, or "trophies" of war? / Konstantin Akinsha; title: Legalizing "compensation" and the spoils of war: the Russian law on displaced cultural valuables and the manipulation of historical memory / Patricia Kennedy Grimsted; title: Why can't private art "trophies" go home from the war? The Baldin-Bremen Kunsthalle Case: a cause-célèbre of German-Russian restitution politics / Konstantin Akinsha; title: Why do captured archives go home? Restitution achievements under the Russian law / Patricia Kennedy Grimsted; title: Art loans and immunity from seizure in the United States and the United Kingdom / Lawrence M. Kaye; title: Chabad v. Russian Federation: a case study in the use of American courts to recover looted cultural property / Michael J. Bazyler and Seth M. Gerber; title: Trophy art as ambassadors: reflections beyond diplomatic deadlock in the German-Russian dialogue / Wolfgang Eichwede; title: appendix 1. Federal Law on Cultural Valuables Displaced to the USSR as a Result of the Second World War and Located on the Territory of the Russian Federation, no. 64-FZ of 15 April 1998 (with amendments) / translated by Konstantin Akinsha and Patricia Kennedy Grimsted; title: appendix 2. Russian legal instruments relating to cultural valuables displaced as a result of the Second World War, 1990-2009 / compiled by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted.