- THE UNIDROIT CONVENTION
- 2nd Protocol to 1954 Hague Convention, adopted 26 March 1999
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1954 The Hague Convention
web page on the 1954 Hague Convention and the
United States failure to adopt it. It contains a resource page with
on-line links and bibliographic resources on cultural property for
anyone conducting research in that area.
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USA District Court versus Brooklyn Institute of arts:
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS
AND SCIENCES,
Plaintiff,
V.
THE CITY OF NEW YORK and
RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI, individually and
in his official capacity as Mayor of the City
of New York,
Defendants.
- International Journal of Cultural Property
The International Journal of Cultural Property, published by OUP from
1998, is a major forum for the discussion of all questions relating to
cultural property policy, ethics, preservation, economics and law.
- NEW UN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT CAN PROSECUTE
"CULTURAL" WAR CRIMES IN BOTH INTERNATIONAL WARS AND NON-INTERNATIONAL
ARMED CONFLICTS
The definitive text of the July 1998 Rome Treaty setting up an
International Criminal Court is now available on the UN web server:
http://www.un.org/icc/romestat.htm
Contrary to some earlier reports, the jurisdiction of the Court does
cover war crimes against cultural property under customary
international law and the Geneva Conventions in both international
wars - in Article 8, para.2(a)(ix) and non-international conflicts -
Article 8, para.2(e)(iv).
Earlier uncertainty or confusion on this point probably relates to
the view of some delegations that though all of its principles are
accepted as "Customary International Law" the 1954 Hague Convention on
the Protection of Cultural Property in Times of Armed Conflict as such
is still not accepted by sufficient countries for a direct
cross-reference to the 1954 Hague Convention to be accepted by a
sufficiently large proportion of the Rome Diplomatic Conference
participants as a whole. (The United States of America in particular
has been especially firm on this specific point throughout the various
discussions of the past 6 or 7 years.)
Consequently the much older and less precise, though uncontested,
wording derived from the 1899 and 1907 Hague Conventions has been
copied into the provisions of Article 8 of the 1998 Rome Treaty.
Of course, the Court as such will not come into existence until the
required number of the 121 States voting for the new treaty actually
turn their vote into a formal Instrument of Ratification - something
that's likely to need primary legislation in most if not all
countries.
Also, as usual the new Treaty is not retrospective, so only war
crimes etc. occuring after the Treaty comes into force will be
subject to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
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The Institute of Art and Law
The Institute of Art and Law is a small independent institution which has as its main objective the increase of public knowledge concerning the contribution of law to the development of cultural tradition.
The Institute organises regular seminars and publishes a quarterly periodical, Art Antiquity and Law, together with a number of specialist books. It is open to public membership, on an individual or institutional basis
- Kluwer publications on Art and Law:
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Art Antiquity and Law
- Art Loans
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Legal Aspects of International Trade in Art/ Aspects juridiques du commerce international de l'art
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Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts
- Federal Statistics
More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce
statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council
on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to
the full range of statistics and information produced by these
agencies for public use.
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Oceana Online
Internet resource for international legal research
RECOMMENDATION FOR
THE PROTECTION OF MOVABLE CULTURAL PROPERTY: READ !!!
- Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing
the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer
of Ownership of Cultural Property
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Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
- National Law Journal
Database of National Law Journal Articles since 10/94.
- The U.S. House of Representatives
Internet Law Library
- CRIMINOLOGY INFORMATION CENTER
- Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal
a student run organization of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and currently functions under the aegis of the Cardozo Intellectual Property Law Program.
- ALI-ABA
one of the premier providers of continuing legal education in the United States since 1947, offers members of the profession a comprehensive curriculum of post-admission legal education -- live courses, course materials, video and audio tapes, satellite broadcasts, books, computer disks, and magazines, plus much more.
- FBI
- BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS
Statistics about: -
Crimes and victims
Drugs and crime
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Criminal offenders
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The justice system
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Prosecution
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Criminal record systems
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Special topics
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Crime & Justice Data from Other Sources
- SOURCEBOOK OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data about all aspects of criminal justice in the United
States. Available at this site are the 654 tables and 5 figures, compiled from over 100 sources, that comprise the 23rd edition
of the Sourcebook. This project is conducted by the Utilization of Criminal Justice Statistics Project at the Hindelang Criminal
Justice Research Center, University at Albany, Albany, New York, USA, for the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of
Justice Statistics.. Sourcebook is organized into six topical sections. Using the Contents, Table and figure list, and Index, you can access
information of interest by browsing these lists or by searching by keywords. Using these pages, you will be directed to
individual tables, displayed separately in Acrobat format. In addition, you can view a section in its entirety in Acrobat format.
Although these files are large, there are some benefits to using them: tables on like subjects are grouped together, so it is easy
to get an overview of the types of data available; note and appendix references are hyperlinked; and each section is searchable
using the Acrobat Reader find function. We suggest downloading these files for use on your own computer, if file size results in
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