Justice Brandeis Law Society Co-Presents: Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art CLE
2/11/2025
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
1:00-2:00pm
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Virtual
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Lincoln, Napoleon and Hitler Walk Into A Bar: Does
the 1907 Hague Convention on Land Warfare Require Signatory Countries
To Open Courts To Claims For Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art?
Article
47 of the 1907 Hague Convention on Land Warfare forbids pillage. Art 56
requires "legal proceedings" for seizures of artworks. In the
post-World War II period, many of the signatory countries of the Hague
Convention have closed their courts to artwork claims over Nazi looting
using statutes of limitations and acquisitive prescription. Mr. Dowd
argues that this approach violates international law and is immoral. The
Hague Convention signatories intended to take the profit out of wars of
aggression. He further argues that barring claims to stolen artworks
violates the Hague Convention and defeats the drafters' goal of taking
the profit motive out of wars of aggression and rewards those who
conceal and launder stolen property. In the United States, the Holocaust
Victims Redress Act of 1998 applies the 1907 Hague Convention to claims
to Nazi looted art. The Holocaust Art Restitution Act of 2016 (the
“HEAR Act”) reopened U.S. courts and extended statutes of limitations.
Mr. Dowd also contends that this approach by the U.S. Congress is the
solution consistent with international law that should be adopted by
courts and by legislatures in other signatory countries. Finally, he
argues that a Directive from the European Parliament requiring European
countries to open their courts to claims of Nazi art looting is the best
vehicle for achieving this result.
Speaker:
Raymond J. Dowd, Esq.; Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP
Date: February 11, 2025
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Price: FREE for All
Format: Zoom webinar (two-step registration process)
CLE Credit: 1 Professional Practice To register, please click here. 
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