The Culture in Cultural Property: Expanding Legal Advocacy. (November 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Errickson, Eve L.
• Is Part Of: Heritage & society. Volume 8:Number 2(2015)
• Page Start: 97
• Page End: 110
• Publication Date: 2015-11
• Subjects: cultural property law -- cultural heritage law -- cultural property advocacy -- cultural heritage advocacy -- historic architecture -- architectural remnants; Derecho de propiedad cultural -- derecho de patrimonio cultural -- defensa de la propiedad cultural -- defensa del patrimonio cultural -- arquitectura histórica -- remanentes arquitectónicos; loi sur les biens culturels -- droit du patrimoine culturel -- plaidoyer pour la protection des biens culturels -- défense du patrimoine culturel -- architecture historique -- vestiges architecturaux; Cultural property -- Protection -- Periodicals; Cultural property -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Historic preservation -- Periodicals; 363.69
• DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2015.1126116
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2159-032X

Abstract

Abstract : The stream of cultural property wrongfully taken from developing countries continues in part as a result of the exclusive use of property-based legal strategies in efforts for its return. Advocates for cultural heritage protection have done much to reveal the shadow market of cultural property — elucidating the illicit traffic of items of cultural property from source countries to museums, collectors and auction houses. Because of its strict, transactional focus, property-based remedies may not be the exclusive mechanism for assessing the social, economic and civic harms associated with cultural property dispossession. This paper will: (1) provide general commentary on the history and practice of property law in the United States, and (2) propose tort theory as a possible solution for advocates seeking strategies for the repatriation of cultural property.