A workshop associated with The Past for Sale: New Approaches to the Study of Archaeological Looting, a project of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. Co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Law School.

Patty Gerstenblith is Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University and director of its Center for Art, Museum and Cultural Heritage Law. She is founding President of the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (2005-2011), Secretary of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield, and Senior Advisor to the ABA’s Art and Cultural Heritage Law Committee. In 2011, President Obama appointed her to serve as the Chair of the President’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee in the U.S. Department of State, on which she had previously served as a public representative in the Clinton administration. From 1995 to 2002, she was editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Cultural Property. Her publications include the casebook, Art, Cultural Heritage and the Law (now in its third edition), and her article, “Controlling the International Market in Antiquities: Reducing the Harm, Preserving the Past”, published in the Chicago Journal of International Law.  Gerstenblith received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College, Ph.D. in Art History and Anthropology from Harvard University, and J.D. from Northwestern University.

Lunch will be served.

This event is free and open to the public, but seating may be limited.