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Redressing historic wrongs, returning objects to their rightful owners or laundering tainted objects? 21st-century UK remedies for Nazi-era injustices
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Woodhead, Charlotte (2014) Redressing historic wrongs, returning objects to their rightful owners or laundering tainted objects? 21st-century UK remedies for Nazi-era injustices. International Journal of Cultural Property, Volume 21 (Number 2). pp. 113-142. doi:10.1017/S0940739114000034 ISSN 0940-7391.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0940739114000034
Abstract
The United Kingdom’s Spoliation Advisory Panel hears claims for cultural objects held in museum collections of which their original owners lost possession during the Nazi era. The Panel aims to achieve “fair and just” solutions for the parties and was created in response to the strong impetus to return cultural objects lost by Jewish owners during the Nazi era. This article argues that understanding the rationale for this claims process and the choice of remedies is essential for achieving such just and fair solutions, specifically whether the Panel aims to redress the past injustices of Hitler’s tyranny, return objects to their “rightful owners,” or prevent the public’s unjust enrichment from access to objects “tainted” by their Nazi association. If it aims to return cultural objects to their rightful owners or to strip museums of unjust gains, it is only a small step to allowing moral claims by other claimant groups whose cultural objects reside in national museums.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | K Law [Moys] > KC International Law K Law [Moys] > KF Common Law, British Isles |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation, Cultural property -- Repatriation, Cultural property -- Protection (International law), Art thefts -- Europe, Jewish property -- Europe, World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Europe | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Cultural Property | ||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0940-7391 | ||||||
Official Date: | May 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | Volume 21 | ||||||
Number: | Number 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 113-142 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0940739114000034 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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