UM Law School Professor Stephen K. Urice Co-Authors Art Law Treatise
Stephen K. Urice, Associate Professor of Law, has co-authored Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts (5th ed. 2007), published by Kluwer Law International. Written in collaboration with John Henry Merryman and Albert E. Elsen, Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts examines a range of topics including the return of works of art and antiquities to Holocaust survivors and foreign nations, the destruction and plundering of art works in time of conflict, artist’s copyrights and moral rights, the international movement of art and antiquities and fakes and forgeries in the art market, the inner workings of art auctions, and censorship of obscene or politically challenging works of art. Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts also addresses recent developments in art law, incorporating changes in treaty, statutory and case law.
Professor Urice, who joined the UM Law School faculty in June 2006, teaches in the areas of cultural heritage law and trusts and estates. In addition to his experience in trusts and estate law in private practice at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York and Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, Professor Urice served as counsel and acting director of the Fredrick R. Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles and the director of the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia. In 1998, he was appointed to plan and implement The Pew Charitable Trust’s cultural policy program, a $50 million, 5-year effort to foster the participation of nonprofit cultural organizations in the development of cultural policies at local, state and federal levels.
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