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Normative Action: UNESCO - Culture

This section of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) website focuses on conventions for the protection of cultural heritage, including non-UNESCO conventions. Full-text treaties and their protocols; drafts; preparatory working documents from committees and diplomatic conferences; and information about state signatories are provided. Information is also available about current activities and forthcoming events. The site is in English, French and Spanish. Links to related websites are provided.

Cardozo arts and entertainment law journal

The Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal was founded in 1982, and is currently published three times each academic year by students of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, under the aegis of the Cardozo Intellectual Property Law Program. Articles are published on entertainment law and related areas including First Amendment law, telecommunications law, sport law, and all areas of intellectual property law. The website includes tables of contents from volume 1 (1982) onwards and full-text access to most articles.

Institute of Art and Law

The Institute of Art and Law is an independent institution founded in 1995 focusing on art law and cultural property law. The Institute organises regular seminars on topics related to art and law for lawyers, historians, collectors, dealers, museum officials and others. Specialised training courses are also held on heritage law and practice. The site gives brief definitions on topics such as moral rights, illicit trade, authenticity, repatriation, export licensing and archaeological objects.

Legal Protection of Cultural Property: A Selective Resource Guide

This online resource guide to the legal protection of cultural property has been written by Louise Tsang who is a research librarian at law firm Greenberg Traurig in the United States. The guide was published in the features section of LLRX.com in April 2007 and updates a previous version from April 2004. The guide provides references to sources of printed and electronic information and to organisations concerned with the protection of cultural property and art theft. There are links to sites providing background information and to other resource guides.

Images of Justice

The Images of Justice website is produced by Canadian based artist Trevor Goring who has compiled a collection of pictures covering a range of legal subjects and portraits of lawyers. Most of the paintings are by Trevor Goring and are grouped by subject including women in law, pre-Christian law, antiquity and European law, justice USA and portraits in law. The paintings can also be browsed by title. There is information about the subject of each picture along with details of how to obtain prints, note cards or digital images.

Artlaw

Online version of the Artlaw column which is published in Art Monthly and made freely available on the Artquest website. The column is written by barrister Henry Lydiate and deals with legal issues affecting artists. The archive can be browsed by subject. Subjects covered include contracts, money, studios, copyright issues, censorship and publication rights. Each subject heading has an introduction and a list of links to the relevant articles. Articles date back to 1976 and are presented in full-text in HTML format.

Legal portraits online

Legal Portraits Online is a project of the Harvard Law School Library to digitise its collection of "over 4000 portrait images of lawyers, jurists, political figures, and legal thinkers dating from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century". In particular the collection includes images of eighteenth and nineteenth century British and American lawyers such as William Blackstone, Jeremy Bentham, John Marshall, and Joseph Story along with graduates of Harvard College and the Harvard Law School.

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