englischWhen appraising art, the idealistic ideas of heirs, art buyers or art lovers often do not coincide with legal and economic facts. At the same time, demand is increasing due to the investment quality of art. The area of conflict in art appraisal requires a flexible value system that makes the [...]

englischSince December 2020, six different import bans under EU and national law must be observed when bringing cultural goods to Germany. These bans, which were successively issued between 2003 and 2019, are systematically analyzed and evaluated in this dissertation. It shows which bans must be [...]

englischThe book is dedicated to the question of how trust in the art trade, which is all too often undermined by the careless handling of art forgeries, can be strengthened again. While first discussing if and in what way law can generate and stabilize trust in a market, the legal and [...]

englischThe study aims to highlight the gaps in criminal liability for attacks directed against immovable cultural objects, which raises the question of why the same offence is considered a crime under international law in the case of armed conflict, but not in the absence of it. The destruction of [...]

englischAccording to the traditional view, copyright protects the "intellectual bond" between the creator and the work. Among other things, the creator must be named as the author of a work, can protect it from modi-fication and decide on its use. Does copyright law also offer him the possibility to [...]

englischNationally valuable cultural goods embody aspects of our culture and history. The Cultural Property Protection Act regulates their protection and the associated legal consequences, such as the fact that they may no longer be permanently exported abroad.

The subject of the study is the list [...]

englischThe thesis determines under which conditions privately owned cultural objects have an identity-forming effect on Germany's culture and are to be entered in the so-called register of nationally valuable cultural goods. It then designs a checklist for the application of these undefined and [...]

englischThe images of the destroyed Buddha statues of Bamiyan, of the ancient city of Palmyra lying in ruins, and of destroyed World Heritage sites in Timbuktu have received much attention from the international public. At the same time, these cases also reflect a new dimension in the conduct of [...]

englischThis work systematically presents the legal issues of art valuation in tax law and civil law and develops legal standards for the valuation of works of art in private and business property. In a basic section, the market-related peculiarities of the valuation object "work of art" are first [...]

englischThe collection of the contributions of the 13th Heidelberger Kunstrechtstag deals under the general theme „Looted Art and Restitution“ with fundamental issues of restitution law, the protection of cultural property, art law and art procedural law as well as provenance research. Topics of [...]