The Parthenon Marbles Case and the Universal Museum Myth: Policies and Politics


Cardozo’s Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, Professor David Rudenstine, the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Preventing Clinic, and the Fame Center proudly present:
THE PARTHENON MARBLES CASE AND THE UNIVERSAL MUSEUM MYTH: POLICIES AND POLITICS.

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Presentation: Lawrence M. Kaye, Esq., Cultural Property and International Human Rights Trends
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Presentation: Giovanna Bellesia, Kaimmacam’s Letter Nº 2 to the Governor of Athens
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The Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal is pleased to present: The Parthenon Marbles Case and the Universal Museum Myth: Policies and Politics. 


This symposium will bring together scholars and advocates to discuss the history of cultural property, its rightful owners, and whether the property should be returned to its original creating country. Professor David Rudenstine will present his decades-long historical research challenging the British Museum’s claim in the cultural property dispute between Greece and Great Britain over the Parthenon Sculptures taken to London in the early 1800s by the British ambassador, Lord Elgin. 

Internationally acclaimed scholars and speakers will engage in conversation with Professor Rudenstine, with opening remarks by Dean Melanie Leslie.


Reception to follow the event.

CLE Materials:

  1. David Rudenstine, Trophies for the Empire, 39 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 377 (2021).
  2. Elizabeth Marlowe, Why the Elgin Marbles Should Not be Returned to Greece . . . Yet, Hyperallergic (Oct. 25, 2021), https://hyperallergic.com/686631/why-the-elgin-marbles-should-not-be-returned-to-greece-yet/ [https://perma.cc/Z92T-USNW].
  3. Elizabeth Marlowe, A Response to Two Members of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, and Other Folks on Social Media, Medium (Oct. 31, 2021), https://medium.com/@emarlowe_93295/a-response-to-two-members-of-the-british-committee-for-the-reunification-of-the-parthenon-f72a8f57efac [https://perma.cc/8EQY-6VRY]. 
  4. David Rudenstine, Lord Elgin and the Ottomans: The Question of Permission, 23 Cardozo L. Rev. 449 (2002). 
  5. David Rudenstine, The Legality of Elgin’s Taking: A Review Essay of Four Books on the Parthenon Marbles, 8 Int’l J. of Cultural Prop. 356 (1999).
  6. David Rudenstine, A Tale of Three Documents: Lord Elgin and the Missing, Historic 1801 Ottoman Document, 22 Cardozo L. Rev. 1853 (2001). 
  7. Kristen A. Carpenter, Sonia K. Katyal, and Angela R. Riley, Clarifying Cultural Property, 17 Int’l J. of Cultural Prop. 581 (2010).
  8. Patty Gerstenblith, The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: A Crime Against Property or a Crime Against People?, 15 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 336 (2016). 
  9. Leila Amineddoleh, How Italy’s Art Crime Squad Has Protected Cultural Artifacts for Five Decades, Artsy (Jan. 22, 2020, 11:48 AM), https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-italys-art-crime-squad-protected-cultural-artifacts-five-decades [https://perma.cc/8KMS-ABP3].