The recent re-emergence of the so-called Florentine Diamond — announced at the end of 2025 after more than a century of uncertainty — has reopened one of the most fascinating unresolved disputes in European cultural heritage law. According to press reports first published by the New York Times in November 2025, the 137-carat yellow gemstone was found in a private vault in Canada, where it had been held by descendants of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty since the Second World War

Legal thoughts on the 'strappo' of 'The Migrant Child' in Venice The removal last year of a Banksy in Venice has reignited a longstanding legal debate at the intersection of property law and copyright: when street art is created without permission on someone else's wall, who actually owns it? And can the property owner legally remove it? In May 2019, during the inauguration of the Venice Biennale, a work attributed to Banksy appeared depicting a migrant child with its feet an

A controversial decision by the New York County Supreme Court (the trial level court) recently granted the New York County District...

Switzerland establishes a body to issue non-binding recommendations on Nazi-looted art and cultural property taken from former colonies.

Photo courtesy of Klaus Hillmann An interview with Klaus Hillmann, Director of Tandem Lagerhaus und Kraftverkehr Kunst GmbH, about EU...

Can Foreign Cultural Objects Be Considered as National Treasures ? On 19th June 2024, the U.K. Government published a press release...

The fight over the "Victorious Youth," a captivating bronze statue from antiquity, has taken a dramatic turn. In a recent decision, the...

Photo courtesy of Veronica Campos Are non-resale clauses in gallery contracts enforcing artistic integrity or manipulating market...