THE LAWS OF CULTURAL PROPERTY

This survey course explores laws applied to the functioning, transactions, and resolution of issues regarding art, cultural heritage, historic preservation, indigenous heritage, and cultural property. Among topics explored are copyright, free speech, the relationships, rights and transactions among collectors, artists, dealers, auction houses, museums (nonprofits), cultural property in armed conflict, the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, the Antiquities Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the Abandoned Shipwreck Act, and cultural heritage of indigenous societies.