Description

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Crossing into many disciplines, cultural property law continues to grow as an established area of practice and study. Now completely updated, Cultural Property Law: A Practitioner's Guide to the Management, Protection, and Preservation of Heritage Resources provides an accessible and objective overview of all major components of an interdisciplinary legal practice that extends from government and tribal management of land to federal underwater resource management to the national and international laws governing museums and the arts marketplace. This practical, balanced, and clearly written guide: - Identifies the components of the area of practice, offering a guide to their application in legal practice- Follows the primary practice areas in the field, highlighting the laws and controlling cases that apply to the practice area identified in each chapter- Provides frequently asked questions for each area of practice- Covers recent cases, regulations, and laws in the field, as well as a discussion of evolving legal concepts and an expanded treatment of emerging areas in the practice, and more Topics are organized by the primary practice areas in the field: - Federal management - State, local, and private management - Tribal management - Federal management of underwater cultural property - Museum administration and collections management - Cultural property in the marketplace - International laws.

About the Author

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Sherry Hutt entered the field of cultural property law in 1982 prosecuting Archaeological Resources Protection Act and international art theft cases in Arizona. Since then she has given frequent seminars throughout the country and has taught cultural property law for the Department of Justice, law schools, and graduate schools of anthropology. She resides in Tryon, North Carolina. Caroline Meredith Blanco is the Assistant General Counsel for the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia, responsible for all legal matters related to environmental and cultural resources laws. Previously, she was a trial attorney in the Natural Resources Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Stan N. Harris is a shareholder in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, office of Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris, and Sisk, P.A. His practice is concentrated in the areas of natural resources law and commercial litigation, and he represents clients in cultural property, Indian lands, oil and gas, and mining disputes.