Baseball legend Yogi Berra is credited with having coined the phrase “It’s déjà vu all over again”. And nothing describes more accurately how I feel about the limitation reform debate triggered by the Gurlitt case. Read More
Month: December 2013
Art Law: Contact Details of the Gurlitt Art Find Task Force
As previoulsy reported, a task force was established to assist the Augsburg public prosecutor’s office (Staatsanwaltschaft) to research the provenance of the Gurlitt collection. Its contact details, however, are not that prominently advertised – at least I could only find them in a German language press release on lostart.de. Here they are: Read More
Human Rights Day – IBA’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI)
Today is Human Rights Day. December 10 commemorates the day when in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I have posted about Amnesty International’s “Write for Rights” campaign last week, and today, I wanted to draw your attention to the the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI).
Art Law: Does Gurlitt Case Trigger Reform of Limitation Rules?
In an interview in Friday’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Winfried Bausback, the Bavarian Minster for Justice set out his plans to amend the limitation rules in such a way that the heirs of owners of looted art could reclaim their property from Gurlitt (Kein Vertrauensschutz für bösgläubige Besitzer). Bausback, a professor of public law by trade and, as it happens, the member of the Bavarian Landtag for my home town Aschaffenburg, was appointed to the office in October 2013, just before the Gurlitt case was to become public and found himself thrown into the limelight immediately. Here is how he proposes to address the limitation issue: Read More