(Lunch Lecture) How Nazi-Looted Art Ended Up in U.S. Universities: A Review of the Historical Context and Legal Issues 

DATE: Tuesday, May 13, 2025 

TIME: 12:45 p.m.–2:15 p.m. ET

PLACE: Webinar

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COST:
This online event is free and open to all.

CLE:
1.5 credits in Areas of Professional Practice (NY transitional and nontransitional)

CO-SPONSOR:
French American Bar Association

Since 1998, several hundred cases involving claims for Nazi-looted artworks have arisen in U.S. court dockets against museums, auction houses, galleries, and collectors. Several prominent American universities, which manage their own museums, have also become exposed to these claims.

Using the public record from the 2015 case Meyer v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma as a teaching tool, this program will examine the historical context and legal issues during and after World War II to explain how these claims arose, as well as some of the legal issues involved in claims against U.S. universities.

SPEAKERS:
Pierre Ciric ‘09, Founder, The Ciric Law Firm, PLLC; Vice-President, French American Bar Association (USA)
(Moderator) Thomas Vandenabeele, Co-Founder and President, French American Bar Association (USA)