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Ray Dowd of Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP and Daniel Schnapp, Dentons LLP, discusses the challenges of litigating claims of Nazi-looted art in international jurisdictions.

Lunch provided.  Funded by the Horace S. Manges Fund.

Mr. Dowd recommends the following readings as supplements to his talk:

1. Raymond J. Dowd, Nazi Looted Art and Cocaine: When Museum Directors Take It, Call the Cops, 14 Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion 529 (2014).
2. Raymond J. Dowd,  Lincoln, Napoleon and Hitler Walk into a Bar: Does the 1907 Hague Convention on Land Warfare Require Signatory Countries to Open Courts to Claims for Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art? A Meditation on Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation and Why a European Directive Could Fix This Horrible Mess 26 KUR - Kundst und Recht 5-6 (2024).
3. Reif v. The Art Inst. of Chi., 703 F. Supp. 3d 427 (S.D.N.Y. 2023)