Established in 2018 in honour of Professors Pierre Lalive and John Henry Merryman, the Lalive & Merryman Fellowship is aimed at the promotion and development of emerging scholars in the field of international cultural heritage law and related fields such as art law and museum law.
About
The Fellowship is awarded to an individual scholar whose article best demonstrates excellence of legal analysis in writing about art and cultural heritage, as well as excellence in the particular scholarly discipline of the author, published in the International Journal of Cultural Property in the preceding calendar year. To be eligible, the author must have been under 40 years of age at the time of the article’s publication.
The Fellowship is co-sponsored in equal part by the Society and LALIVE Geneva for a total annual amount of CHF 6,000. The Fellow is hosted by the Art Law Centre, University of Geneve for a period of no less than two, and no more than four, weeks. The period of the visit shall be at a time mutually convenient to the Centre and the Fellow during a twelve (12) month period running from 1 May in the year of the award’s announcement. During the visit, the Fellow will be expected to work on publishable research and engage in the activities of the Centre. The Fellow will be provided with office and library facilities.
How to Apply
Information on the application process is found on the International Journal of Cultural Property website: https://www.cambridge.org/
Current and past fellows
2023
Luke McDonagh (LSE)
‘Exploring “ownership” of Irish traditional dance music: Heritage or property? ‘ IJCP vol 29 no 2
2022
Adnan Al Mohamad (Birkbeck)
‘The destruction and looting of cultural heritage sites by ISIS in Syria: The case of Manbij and its countryside’ IJCP vol 28, no 2, pp 221-260
2021
Tamás Szabados (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University)
‘In Search of the Holy Grail of the Conflict of Laws of Cultural Property’ IJCP vol 27, no 3, pp 323-347
2020
Luke Tattersall (Essex Chambers)
‘Derailing State Immunity: A Broad-Brush Approach to Jurisdiction under Claims for the Expropriation of Cultural Property’ IJCP vol 26, no 2, pp 181-195
2019
Tabitha I. Oost (U Amsterdam)
‘Restitution Policies on Nazi-Looted Art in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom: A Change from a Legal to a Moral Paradigm IJCP vol 25, no 2, pp 139-178