Education

 

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, Old Aberdeen Scotland, PhD. Candidate (Expected Submission Fall of 2007) Researching “The Legal Response of the United States and the United Kingdom to the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property.” 

 

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Winston-Salem, NC, J.D. 2005.

Articles Editor Wake Forest Intellectual Property Law Journal 2004-05

 

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, Lawrence, KS, B.A. (History) 2000. 

 

Publications

 

Why Federal Criminal Penalties for Dealing in Illicit Cultural Property are Ineffective, and a Pragmatic Alternative, 25 Cardozo Art & Ent. L. J. (Forthcoming Nov. 2007).

 

Rejecting Renvoi for Movable Cultural Property:  The Islamic Republic of Iran v. Denyse Berend,14 International Journal of Cultural Property, 111-120 (February 2007).

 

Author of the Illicit Cultural Property web log, a regular discussion of cultural property news and policy.  It was featured on BBC Reporting Scotland, BBC Radio Good Morning Scotland.  It garnered the attention of Pulitzer-Prize nominated  journalists from the Los Angeles Times, the staff at the Getty Museum, academics, and journalists from the Wall Street Journal, and BBC’s TimeTeam.  http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/ .

 

Presentations

Lecture, “The US Response to National Ownership Declarations of Undiscovered Antiquities:  A Guide for the English Court of Appeals in Iran v. Barakat Ltd.”, The Institute of Art and Law, London (Forthcoming, October 30, 2007).

 

Lecture, “New Strategies for Source and Market Regulation of the International Trade in Cultural Property”,  International Law and Trade Conference:  Bridging the East-West Divide. Istanbul Turkey School of Law, Bilgi University (May 2007). 

 

Lecture, “A Legal and Ethical Evaluation of the Dispute between Italy and the Getty Museum regarding the Bronze Statue of a Victorious Youth”, Aberdeen Legal Research Society (March 2007).

 

Moderator, “Freedom of Expression or Religious Tolerance:  The Danish Cartoon Controversy”, Aberdeen Legal Research Society (November 2006).    

 

Teaching

University of Aberdeen Teaching Assistant in Scots Contract law and Non-Contractual Obligations (2006-2008). 

 

Research Collaboration

Co-Chair of the University of Aberdeen College of Arts and Social Science 2007 Moving Forward Conference. (June 2007).

 

Editor for various postgraduate doctoral theses and dissertations and Dr. Lorenzo Zucca’s book Constitutional Dilemmas published by Cambridge University Press.