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Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra

World Heritage Site Attacked

Ukrainian museums and cultural centers, such as this 11th century UNESCO site are under attack. Learn about Cultural Heritage at Risk.

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That’s a wrap on the 2026 Center for Art Law Summe

That’s a wrap on the 2026 Center for Art Law Summer School! 🎉

Over five days in New York City, participants explored art law through lectures, discussions, site visits, and conversations with leading attorneys, scholars, appraisers, artists, and art market professionals.

From contracts and copyright to AI and provenance research, students gained a deeper understanding of the legal issues shaping today’s art world while building connections with peers who share similar passions.

Thank you to our speakers, hosts, sponsors, and participants for making this year’s Summer School such a success. We loved spending the week with you and look forward to seeing where your art law journeys take you next! ⚖️🎨🗽

#centerforartlaw #artlaweyer #summerschool #artlaw #legalresearch

Thank you for joining us this Saturday for our pan

Thank you for joining us this Saturday for our panel discussion at the Landesmuseum as part of the official program of Zurich Art Weekend 2026 @zurichartweekend

With a fully booked audience, inspiring perspectives from leading voices @thomstauffer @stefanputtaert @alanakushnir @willkorner @pascalrobertgallery, and a warm welcome at an iconic venue, it was a truly memorable event!

Thanks to everyone who came along - it was a blast💥

Special thanks to our sponsors @smartstamp @t_transporte.zuerich, the Edge, TRACE and @artdomains!

How do artists, attorneys, and cultural institutio

How do artists, attorneys, and cultural institutions navigate copyright law in an era of AI and rapidly evolving case law?

Our latest article revisits our latest Art Lawyering Bootcamp on Copyright Law from February 4th, highlighting conversations on fair use, moral rights, copyright registration, estate planning, and the legal questions raised by generative AI.

📚 Read the full article by Alexandra Kharchenko at the link in our bio!

#centerforartlaw #artlawyer #copyrightlaw #artlaw #AIandArt #fairuse #intellectualproperty #artistrights #copyright

Join us for an informative guest lecture and pro b

Join us for an informative guest lecture and pro bono consultations on legacy and estate planning for visual artists.

Calling all visual artists: join the Center for Art Law's Artist Legacy and Estate Planning Clinic for an evening of low-cost consultations with attorneys, tax experts, and other arts professionals with experience in estate and legacy planning.

After a short lecture on a legacy and estate planning topic, attendees with consultation tickets artist will be paired with one of the Center's volunteer professionals (attorneys, appraisers and financial advisors) for a confidential 20-minute consultation. Limited slots are available for the consultation sessions.

🎟️ Grab tickets using the link in our bio!

#centerforartlaw #artlaw #clinic #artlawyer #estateplanning #artistlegacy #legal #research #lawclinic

As AI enters all parts of the legal sector, it has

As AI enters all parts of the legal sector, it has also been implemented in Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms. The American Arbitration Association and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution recently introduced the "AI arbitrator" in November 2025.

The process is relatively simple, though it remains reserved for construction cases and subject to the review of a human arbitrator. The tool was created to offer more cost- and time-efficient options. The question remains, if current ADR AI tools can be envisioned in art law disputes, particularly given the individualistic features of art law claims and how they may, or may not, be addressed through the use of AI in ADR procedures

📚 Click the link in our bio to read the full article by Marina Rastorfer!

#centerforartlaw #artlaw #legal #artlawyer #legalreserach #ailaw #aiart #adr #alternativedisputeresolution

Don't miss our upcoming conversation with Dr. Rubi

Don't miss our upcoming conversation with Dr. Rubina Raja, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at Aarhus University, as she presents contemporary, collaborative approaches to combating the illicit trade in antiquities, with a particular focus on Palmyra (Tadmor), Syria.

Drawing on the historical relationship between collecting and looting, the discussion will highlight the Palmyrene Portrait Project, a corpus of over 4,000 funerary portraits from Palmyra compiled by Dr. Raja and her team since 2012. The project serves as a critical record of material that, in many cases, remained in situ prior to the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War.

Before its inception, this body of material had not been treated as a unified corpus, nor systematically digitized. Today, the project stands as both the largest corpus of individual Roman period portraits from a single urban context and an essential scholarly and practical tool for identifying objects from Palmyra as they emerge on the art market.

Please note this event will not be recorded.

🎟️ Get tickets now using the link in bio!

#centerforartlaw #arlaw #artlawyer #legalresearch #culturalheritage #artcrime #antiquities

Recently some artist estates have loosened fair us

Recently some artist estates have loosened fair use policies for non-profits. The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is one such example. In an effort to promote Rauschenberg's work over short-term revenue gain, it implemented one of the first fair use policies for certain museums before widening it to the public at large.

Artist engagement levels did increase, but the policy brought up other issues, including distinguishing non-profit from for-profit uses.

📚 Click the link in our bio to read more in our article by Josie Goettel!

#centerforartlaw #artlaw #artlawyer #legalresearch #art #artistissues #artistestates #museumissues #iplaw #copyright #ip

Meet our stellar line up of speakers! Thomas Stau

Meet our stellar line up of speakers!

Thomas Stauffer | Partner, Gerber & Stauffer Fine Arts; President, Swiss Art Trading Association @thomstauffer

Stefan Puttaert | CEO, Nicola Erni Collection @stefanputtaert @nicolaernicollection

Alana Kushnir | Founder & Principal, Aurelian Lawyers & Advisers @aurelianlawyersandadvisers

Will Korner | Head of Fairs, TEFAF @willkorner

Pascal Robert | Founder, Pascal Robert Gallery @pascalrobertgallery

Irina Tarsis | Founder, Center for Art Law, Moderator

▪️See you this Saturday, June 13 | 11:30–13:00
Auditorium Willy G.S. Hirzel, Landesmuseum Zurich
Free & open to the public

▪️Official part of @zurichartweekend programme

June! Roses are in bloom, summer interns have comp

June! Roses are in bloom, summer interns have completed two weeks of orientation and research, and the world is heating up. As we wrap up after the Summer School, with much gratitude to our faculty and students, and digest the Copyright Law Conference takeaways, we cannot wait for our panel discussion Art Markets & the World in Transition (what is not?!) during the Zurich Art Weekend (in town on June 13th? Join us!), and look forward to sharing new research and articles with you posthaste.

Make sure to subscribe to our newsletter to get all of these updates and more!

📚 Click the link in our bio to get a curated collection of art law news, our most recent published articles, upcoming events, and much more!!

#centerforartlaw #artlaw #artlawyer #lawyer #artissues #newsletter #june #legalresearch

In this episode of Art in Brief, Andrea and Paris

In this episode of Art in Brief, Andrea and Paris speak with Will Korner, founder and director of the Cultural Heritage At Risk Database Foundation (CHARD).

From conflict zones to disaster-stricken regions, Will discusses how documentation, collaboration, and technology can help safeguard the objects and stories that connect us to our shared past from illicit trade. He also explains how CHARD’s database can be used to cross-check whether stolen or missing cultural objects are appearing on the art market, including at auction, and what is at stake when these irreplaceable pieces of heritage are lost.

🎙️ Check out the podcast anywhere you get your podcasts using the link in our bio!

#centerforartlaw #artlaw #artlawyer #podcast #legal #research #legalresearch #newepisode #artmarket #culture #artcrime

Despite the passage of multiple anti-money launder

10 DAYS TO GO - MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Saturday, Ju

10 DAYS TO GO - MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Saturday, June 13 | 11:30–13:00
Auditorium Willy G.S. Hirzel, Landesmuseum Zurich
Free & open to the public

With big gratitude to our sponsors, we look forward to welcoming you at the event!

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