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The Future: Restituting Looted Cuban Art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Mari-Claudia Jiménez
Mari-Claudia Jiménez*
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Herrick Feinstein LLP
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Picture This: Survey of International Art Law Issues
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 109 , 2015 , pp. 116 - 123
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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References

1 Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets, available at http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/holocaust/heac.html; see also http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/crs9.html.

2 Prague Conference on Holocaust Era Assets, at http://www.holocausteraassets.eu/program/.

3 See David Glovin & Toluse Olorunnipa, Cuba Property Claims, Yielding Pennies, May Spur Talks, Bloomberg, Dec. 22, 2014, at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-23/cuba-seized-property-claims-seen-as-yielding-pennies-on-dollar; David D’Arcy, Cuba Refuses to Return Seized Art Despite Thaw in Relations with US, The Art Newspaper, Feb. 23, 2015, at http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Cuba-refuses-to-return-seized-art-despite-thaw-in-relations-with-US/36940.

4 Glovin & Olorunnipa, supra note 3.

5 David D’Arcy, Cuba’s Pillaged Patrimony, Art+Auction, Nov. 1995, at 134.

6 David D’Arcy, The Fidel File, Art+Auction, May 2007, at 58.

7 Id .

8 D’Arcy, Cuba’s Pillaged Patrimony, supra note 5, at 133.

9 Inter-Allied Declaration Against Acts of Dispossession Committed in Territories Under Enemy Occupation or Control, January 5, 1943 (the London Declaration), available at http://www.lootedartcommission.com/inter-allied-declaration.

10 Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino, 376 U.S. 398 (1964).

11 Id .

12 Id. at 428.

13 See 22 U.S.C. § 2370(e)(2).

14 See Helmerich, & Payne, Intern. Drilling Co. v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 971 F. Supp. 2d 49, 62 (D.D.C. 2013)Google Scholar.

15 Glen v. Cub Méditerranée S.A., 365 F. Supp. 2d 1263, 1268 (S.D. Fla. 2005), aff’d 450 F. 3d 1251 (11th Cir. 2006).

16 28 U.S.C. §§ 1602-1611.

17 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(3).

18 22 U.S.C. § 2459.

19 Malewicz v. City of Amsterdam, 362 F.Supp.2d 298 (D.D.C. 2005); Malewicz v. City of Amsterdam, 517 F.Supp.2d 322 (D.D.C. 2007).

20 D’Arcy, Cuba Refuses to Return Seized Art, supra note 3.

21 Id.

22 Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 637 F.3d 783 (7th Cir. 2011).

23 Id.

24 See Michael D. Goldhaber, Billions in U.S. Claims Against Cuba Still Outstanding, The American Lawyer, Feb. 18, 2015; Paul Guzzo, Lawsuits Block Cuba’s Path to Normalization, The Tampa Tribune, Jan. 24, 2015.

25 Randy Kennedy, Bronx Museum of the Arts Plans Art Exchange with Cuba, N.Y. Times, Jan. 21, 2015.

26 Id.

27 D’Arcy, Cuba Refuses to Return Seized Art, supra note 3.

28 Id.

29 Id.

30 De La Torre v. Sotheby’s, No. 010910-03, N.Y. Sup. Ct. (2003); Celestine Bohlen, Reclaiming Art Caught in the Cuban Revolution; In Cases Reminiscent of Looted Nazi Art, Émigrés Trace Fate of Their Collections, N.Y. Times, June 6, 2002, at E2.

31 Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1996, 22 U.S.C. §§ 6021-6091 (generally known as the Helms-Burton Act).

32 Mary Anastasia O’Grady, Castro’s Art Theft Puts Sotheby’s on the Spot, Wall Street Journal, Oct. 29, 2004, at A15.

33 D’Arcy, Cuba Refuses to Return Seized Art, supra note 3.

34 Id.