Who Should Profit From The Holocaust? Nazi Looted Art in US Museums

The University of Toledo College of Law and the Toledo Jewish Community Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo present                  

The David S. Stone Law Lecture

 

Raymond J. Dowd

Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Noon (1.0 CLE) & 7 p.m. (1.5 CLE)
McQuade Law Auditorium

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"Who should profit from the Holocaust? Legal controversies over Nazi art looting" 

The problem of unrestituted Nazi looted art is one facing museums, governments, and private collectors worldwide. In 1998 the issue hit the front pages of the world press when District Attorney Robert Morgenthau seized two works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This seizure led the U.S. State Department under the Clinton Administration to convene 44 countries and prominent art world players to sign on to the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art.
In the wake of the Washington Conference, many countries created commissions to oversee restitution of Nazi-looted art. Join attorney Ray Dowd as he discusses recent federal litigation and international developments involving the unfinished business of World War II and the legacy of the Holocaust.

About Raymond J. Dowd

Raymond J. Dowd is a partner in the law firm of Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP in New York City. His practice consists of federal and state trial and appellate litigation, arbitration and mediation. He served as lead trial counsel in notable cases involving art law, copyrights, trademarks, cybersquatting, privacy, trusts and decedents estates, licensing, corporate, and real estate transactions. He has litigated questions of Austrian, Canadian, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Swiss law and handled matters in Surrogate’s Court, including Matter of Flamenbaum (2013), recovering an ancient Assyrian tablet for the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
Mr. Dowd is a graduate of Manhattan College and Fordham Law School.

CLE & Registration

The Noon course has been approved by the Supreme Court of Ohio Commission on Continuing Legal Education for 1.0 total CLE hour(s), with 1.0 of attorney professional conduct instruction.
The 7 p.m. course has been approved by the Supreme Court of Ohio Commission on Continuing Legal Education for 1.5 total CLE hour(s), with 1.5 of attorney professional conduct instruction.
The cost for the CLE is free, but we ask that you RSVP by email to Rachel.Phipps@utoledo.edu.

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 Copyright law, fine art and navigating the courts. All practice, no theory.Copyright Litigation Handbook (Thomson Reuters Westlaw 2014-2015) by Raymond J. Dowd
 

Nazi Art Looting Program At Colorado Supreme Court - May 7, 2015

 

 
Looted Masterpieces:

The Ethical Implications of World War II Stolen Art

May 7, 2015 at 5:00 p.m.

 

Introduction by The Honorable Robert Bacharach,

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

 

Presented by Raymond J. Dowd

 

 

 

 

This seminar will give attendees an overview about art looting during the Second World War and how sales of stolen works bankrolled large parts of the Nazi war machine. Attendees will also learn about laws that were passed in the wake of the looting, to return stolen art to its rightful owners, and the extent to which those laws have been successful. 

 

1 Ethics and 1 General Hour of Colorado CLE Credit

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Registration  opens at 4:30 pm.

Introduction:  5:00 pm –  5:15 pm

Presentation:  5:15 pm-6:15 pm

Reception: 6:15 pm – 7:15 pm

Location:   The Colorado Supreme Court 2 East 14th Avenue Denver, CO 80203

 

Mr. Dowd is a partner in the law firm of Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP in New York City. His legal practice centers on litigation in federal and state trial and appellate courts, arbitration, and mediation. Notable cases in which he has acted as lead counsel involve art law, copyrights, trademarks, cybersquatting, privacy, trusts and decedents estates, licensing, corporate and real estate transactions. He has litigated questions of Austrian, Canadian, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Swiss law.

 

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Registration Fee includes wine and cheese reception.

FBA Member □ $25                       Non Member □ $35

Send check payable to the Federal Bar Association Colorado Chapter

by May 4, 2015 to:  FBA Colorado Chapter, P.O. Box 13966, Denver, CO 80201

 

Cancellations received by 5:00 p.m., three business days before the seminar will receive a full refund; less than three business days prior to the seminar will be refunded less a $10 administrative fee; no shows will not receive a refund.

 

CLE Committee Co-Chairs Mimi Tsankov, Board Member,

and Margaret Cordova, President, FBA Colorado Chapter

For information on FBA Colorado Chapter membership, events and programs, please visit our website at www.fedbar.org.  Email:  fedbarcolorado@gmail.com.

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 Copyright law, fine art and navigating the courts. All practice, no theory.Copyright Litigation Handbook (Thomson Reuters Westlaw 2014-2015) by Raymond J. Dowd
 

Join Me This Weekend: International Law Weekend NYC Panel on Careers in International Art Law

 

Careers in International Art Law Panel

When:  Saturday, October 26th at 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Where: Fordham Law School, first floor, Manhattan, NYC.

Like many human activities, the art world is becoming increasingly international. Works of art regularly travel across borders in connection with exhibitions. These works also travel across borders in connection with theft, looting, and trafficking. Today, art is sold and distributed via the Internet and other transnational media in ways not imagined just decades ago. These phenomena and others have created the need for lawyers specialized in forms of licensing, contracting, and dispute resolution particular to the art world. The panel will explore career paths for lawyers interested in wedding a legal career to their passion for the arts -- careers in private law firms, in museums, in government, and in international bodies.

Moderator:
• Professor Paul R. Dubinsky, Director of Graduate Studies, Wayne State University Law School

Panelists:
• Lee Crawford Boyd, Partner, Schwarcz, Rimberg, Boyd & Rader
• Raymond J. Dowd, Partner, Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP
• Charles Goldstein, Counsel, Herrick, Feinstein, LLP


Click here to learn more about the event!

Click here for a full schedule!

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 Copyright law, fine art and navigating the courts. All practice, no theory.Copyright Litigation Handbook (Thomson Reuters Westlaw 2012-2013) by Raymond J. Dowd
 

Jan 24 Masterpieces & Mystery: Recovering Art Stolen From Victims of the Holocaust

I hope that you will be able to join us at this wonderful venue in Philadelphia on Thursday, January 24.  Special thanks to the Brandeis Law Society, the EDPA Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, the EDPA Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Judge Sandra Moss, Samantha Zipkin, Frank McGovern and Gregg Kanter for making it all happen.  Click here to register.


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Art Law - Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Institute Detailed Agenda For This Friday

 

 

5^th Annual Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Institute

Friday, November 16, 2012; 8:45 AM –5:00 PM

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM          Breakfast and Registration

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM          Introductions and Announcements

Hon Stephen G. Crane (Ret.),JAMS and  Raymond J. Dowd, Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP

9:15 AM – 10: 15 AM       Panel 1:   The Law and Business of Sculpture and Fine Art Multiples

                                                Moderator: Hon. Nicholas Garaufis, E.D.N.Y.

 Panelists: Judith Bresler, Withersworldwide;  John Cahill, Lynn¦Cahill, LLP; Renee Vara , Vara Art
10:15 AM –11:15 AM      Panel 2:    Stewardship of Art Collections: What Lawyers Need to Know Moderator: Hon. Sherry Klein Heitler, Administrative Judge for Civil Matters, First Judicial DistrictPanelists: Maura Kehoe Collins, Artiphile, Art Collections Management Services;  Kirsten Squires, Cook Maran & Associates, Innovative Insurance Strategies; Ann Lydecker, Cirkers, Fine Art Storage & Logistics
 
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM     BREAK

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM      Panel 3:    The Law of Antiquities
Moderator: Hon. Barbara Jaffe, Acting Justice, Supreme Court, New York County
Panelists: Sharon Levin,  Asset Forfeiture Dept., U.S. Attorney's Office, S.D.N.Y.;
William Pearlstein, Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP; Michael McCullough, Michael McCullough LLC; Darlene Fairman, Herrick Feinstein LLP

12:30 PM – 1:00 PM        LUNCH (Provided)
1:00 PM – 1:50 PM           Keynote Address: An Ethical GPS for an International Art Practice Speaker:  Alexandra Darraby, The Art Law Firm, author, Art Artifact Architecture & Museum Law
1:50 PM – 2:45 PM           Panel 4:    The Arts on Capitol Hill
Moderator: Hon. Delissa Ridgway,U.S. Court of International Trade
Panelist: Marion Werkheiser;, Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC
 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM           Panel 5:    Trusts, Estates and Art: What Lawyers Need to Know
Moderator: Hon. Kristen Booth Glen, New York County Surrogate's Court
Panelists:  Ralph Lerner, Withersworldwide; James McAndrew, Grunfeld Desiderio Lebowitz Silverman Klestadt LLP;
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM           BREAK
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM           Panel 6:     Legal Issues Surrounding Art Galleries and Art Dealing
Moderator: Hon. Helen Freedman, App. Div., First Dept.
Panelists: Helen Allen, Allen Cooper Enterprises; Chris Robinson, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP; Christine Lepera, Mitchell Silberg & Knupp LLP

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Welcome Appraisers Association of America Annual Conference

The Appraisers Association of America starts its national convention tomorrow at the New York Athletic Club.   My firm Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP is sponsoring tomorrow night's cocktail, we hope to welcome everyone there at Bonham's auction house.

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Art Law & Beer Event - SDNY Chapter of the Federal Bar Association - January 25

 Meet zymurgists, discuss copyright law's fair use doctrine, and get all creative over a beer or two.   It is time again for the Art Law & Beer program sponsored by the Southern District of New York Chapter of the Federal Bar Association's Younger Lawyers Committee.   Learn more about the SDNY Chapter here.   Learn more about the January 25 event here.   Get serious and join the Federal Bar Association here.

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SDNY Federal Bar Association CLE Program March 24: Due Process Limits to the Exercise of Personal Jurisdiction

The Federal Bar Association is sponsoring a CLE program on March 24 at the U.S. District Court - Southern District of New York - The Due Process Limits to the Exercise of Personal Jurisdiction.  Click on flyer below.

My partner Luke McGrath and Professor Robert Pfeffer will present.
Supreme Court Round-Up_FLYER

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April 16 2010 Art Litigation - Nazi Art Looting - Following the Trail To Egon Schiele's Dead City

Egon Schiele's Dead City III (1911)

April 16, 2010 lecture at Gratz College - more information:  www.gratzcollege.edu/cle

Full brochure here

Program description:

Following the Trail to Dead City

Raymond J. Dowd, Esquire
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm

This course presents the intriguing story of Egon Schiele’s painting, Dead City, after it was stolen by the Nazis and legal efforts to bring it back into the Grunbaum family.

Mr. Dowd will discuss how Fritz Grunbaum’s art collection surfaced in Switzerland in 1956 under disputed
circumstances and was later found in the Leopold and Albertina museums in Austria. In 1998, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau seized Dead City (along with Portrait of Wally) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and unleashed an international debate over what countries should be doing to return art to Jewish heirs. Mr. Dowd will underscore the role of the Swiss in laundering Nazi looted art; the response of the Austrian government, which has been somewhat less than cooperative; and the new commission the U.S. may establish to assist Holocaust victims and their heirs. Mr. Dowd has spoken on this topic at the Jewish Museum in Berlin and at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. A terrific companion to last year’s popular course on “Reclaiming Nazi Looted Art.”

Three (3) substantive credits: $100