The current International Cultural Property Society officers and board of directors
Marc-André Renold
Vice President
Marc-André Renold
Vice PresidentArt-Law Centre, University of Geneve, SwitzerlandMarc-André Renold, qui a étudié à Genève, Bâle et Yale (USA), est Professeur ordinaire à l’Université de Genève, responsable de l’enseignement de droit de l’art et des biens culturels.Il a également été professeur associé de 2006 à 2019, chargé de cours à l’Université de Genève de 2003 à 2006, chargé d’enseignement invité à l’Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales de Genève (2004) et au Duke-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law (2005); il a été professeur invité à l’Université de Paris 11 (2006-2007).Il dirige par ailleurs le Centre du droit de l’art, une institution vouée à la recherche et à l’enseignement sur les questions juridiques relatives aux œuvres d’art et aux biens culturels.En outre, depuis 2012 il est titulaire de la Chaire UNESCO en droit international de la protection des biens culturels.Marc-André Renold est également avocat au Barreau de Genève où il pratique en particulier dans les domaines du droit de l’art, du droit civil et commercial international et du droit de la propriété intellectuelle.Il est l’auteur ou le coauteur de nombreuses publications dans le domaine du droit de l’art et des biens culturels sur les plans suisse et international; il est également le coéditeur de la série des Etudes en droit de l’art publiée par le Centre du droit de l’art. Le Professeur Renold a été sollicité à de nombreuses reprises par la RTS et ses interventions sont disponibles sous le lien suivant : http://avisdexperts.ch/experts/marc_andre_renoldMarc-André Renold est marié et le père de trois enfants.
Gaye Sculthorpe
Vice President
Gaye Sculthorpe
Vice PresidentOceania Department, British Museum, UK
Gaye Sculthorpe is a Palawa woman from Tasmania. Between 2013 and August 2022 she was curator and Head of Oceania at The British Museum. Before moving to London, Gaye worked as a Member of the National Native Title Tribunal in Australia and prior to that in curatorial positions at Museums Victoria, Melbourne and, many years ago, at the National Museum of Australia. Since then she has been working with Aboriginal communities and university colleagues in Australia on several Australian Research Council-funded projects with a focus on uncovering and making known historic collections of Aboriginal cultural material in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In 2021, her book, co-edited with Maria Nugent and Howard Morphy of the Australian National University, Ancestors, artefacts, empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museums was published by British Museum Press. Her work in this area was acknowledged in 2021 by her election as an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In August 2022, Gaye was appointed to the position of Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne.
Fatou Bensouda
Director
Fatou Bensouda
DirectorFatou Bensouda is the The Gambia High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. Previously, she was Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (2012 -2021). Mrs. Bensoud’as international career as a non-government civil servant began at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where she worked as a Legal Adviser and Trial Attorney before rising to the position of Senior Legal Advisor and Head of the Legal Advisory Unit (2002 to 2004), after which she joined the ICC as the Court’s first Deputy Prosecutor. Between 1987 and 2000, Mrs. Bensouda was successively Senior State Counsel, Principal State Counsel, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Solicitor General and Legal Secretary of the Republic of The Gambia, and Attorney General and Minister of Justice of The Republic of The Gambia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatou_Bensouda
Rebecca Noonan Murray
Treasurer
Rebecca Noonan Murray
TreasurerOffice of General Counsel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Rebecca Murray is Senior Associate Counsel, The Metropoltian Museum of Art, New York, USA, where she has worked since 2001. Her work focusses on the museum’s collection and acquisitons. Previously, she was in private practice at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York. She is a member of the Art Law Committee, New York City Bar Association. Ms. Murray graduated from Wellesley College and Yale Law School.
Derek Gillman
Director
Derek Gillman
DirectorDerek Gillman is Distinguished Teaching Professor, Art History and Museum Leadership, and Executive Director, University Collections and Exhibitions, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Previously, Professor Gilman was Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation (2006-2013), President and Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1999-2006); Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, (1995-1999); Keeper of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, UK (1985-1995.) Publications include The Idea of Cultural Heritage (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., 2010, Chinese translation, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics Press, 2018) and numerous articles on art and heritage. He co-edited, with Claire Finkelstein and Frederik Rosén, The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War (Oxford University Press, 2022), which includes his chapter ‘Preserving valuable objects and sites, in times of war and at other times.’ Mr. Gillman served as President of the International Cultural Property Society from 2008-14. He is a longstanding member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, and a consulting scholar in the Asian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Mr. Gilman was an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford University, and studied at the Beijing Languages Institute. https://drexel.edu/westphal/about/directory/GillmanDerek/
Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
Director
Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
DirectorFaculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, AustraliaAna Filipa Vrdoljak is the UNESCO Chair in International Law and Cultural Heritage. She is the author of International Law, Museums and the Return of Cultural Objects (Cambridge University Press, 2006 and 2008, forthcoming 2nd edition) and editor of Oxford Handbook on International Cultural Heritage Law with Francesco Francioni (Oxford University Press 2020), The Cultural Dimension of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2013) and International Law for Common Goods: Normative Perspectives in Human Rights, Culture and Nature with Federico Lenzerini (Hart Publishing, 2014), and Oxford Commentary on the 1970 UNESCO and 1995 UNIDROIT Conventions with Andrzej Jakubowski and Alessandro Chechi (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2022).Professor Vrdoljak is a General Editor, with Francesco Francioni, of the Oxford Commentaries on International Cultural Heritage Law (Oxford University Press) and book series entitled Cultural Heritage Law and Policy (Oxford University Press). She is President of the International Cultural Property Society (U.S.) and Management Committee, International Journal of Cultural Property (Cambridge University Press). She has been Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, Marie Curie Fellow and Jean Monnet Fellow, Law Department European University Institute, Florence, and visiting scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge and Global Law School, New York University. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy (in Law) from the University of Sydney.
Manlio Frigo
Director
Manlio Frigo
DirectorManlio Frigo is Full professor of International and European Law and of International Contracts and Arbitration Law, Milano Università degli Studi, Department of International, Juridical, Political and Historical Studies. Professor Frigo is a Member of the Steering Committee of the PhD in Legal Studies at the Bocconi University, Milan; Member of the Committee on Cultural Heritage Law of the ILA (International Law Association); Vice-president of the Société internationale pour la recherche en droit du patrimoine culturel et droit de l’art, Member of the Legal Affairs Committee of ICOM, and consultant to Unesco, Unidroit, the EU Commission and the EU Parliament. He is the author of several books and articles on private and public international law related matters. https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/manlio-frigo; https://www.belex.com/en/professional/manlio-frigo/
Stanley N. Katz
Director
Stanley N. Katz
DirectorStanley Katz is Lecturer with rank of Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University. Professor Katz is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies. His recent research focuses on recent developments in American philanthropy, the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Newberry Library, the Center for Jewish History, and serves as Chair of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Working Group on Cuba. Katz is a member of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society; a Fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of American Historians; and a Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He is the Editor in Chief of the recently published Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, and the Editor Emeritus of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Katz received his undergraduate degree and PhD from Harvard University. https://scholar.princeton.edu/snkatz/home
Keun-Gwan Lee
Director
Keun-Gwan Lee
DirectorKeun-Gwan Lee is a Professor of Law at the School of Law, Seoul National University, Korea, since 2004. Previously, Professor Lee taught international law at the Republic of Korea Naval Academy, Konkuk University (Seoul, Korea) and Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan). His research interests include, among others, the history and theory of international law (in particular, the ‘reception’ of modern international law in East Asia), the law of state succession (with particular reference to the relations between South and North Korea), the law of the sea and the international protection of cultural heritage. He was chairperson of the Inter-Governmental Committee Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin in the 2012-2014 period. He received his LL.B. from Seoul National University, LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. https://sail.or.kr/prof-keun-gwan-lee/
Lawrence Rosen
Director
Lawrence Rosen
DirectorLawrence Rosen is the William Nelson Cromwell professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and is both an anthropologist and a lawyer. His main interests are in the relation between cultural concepts and their implementation in social and legal relationships. His main fieldwork has been in North Africa; he has also worked as an attorney on a number of American Indian legal cases. His publications include Law as Culture: An Invitation, The American Indian and the Law (editor), Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society (co-author), Bargaining for Reality: The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Community, The Anthropology of Justice: Law as Culture in Muslim Society, and Other Intentions: Cultural Contexts and the Attribution of Inner States (editor). https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/emeritus-faculty/lawrence-rosen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Rosen_(anthropologist)
Jorge A Sanchez Cordero Davila
Director
Jorge A Sanchez Cordero Davila
DirectorJorge A Sanchez Cordero Davila is Director, Mexican Center for Uniform Law, Mexico City, Mexico. Mr. Sanchez is a practicing lawyer and public notary in Mexico City. He is emeritus consultant to the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Among many professional associations, he is Chair of the Mexican branch of the Henri Capitant Association, Member of the Permanent Committee of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) and Member of the International Committee on Legal, Administrative and Financial Issues of the International Committee of Monuments and Sites, Member of the American Law Association and Fellow of the European Law Institute. Previously, he was a judge at the electoral federal court and a diplomatic representative of the Government of Mexico, including at the Unidroit cultural convention in Rome in 1995. He graduated from the National University of Mexico Law School. https://www.ali.org/members/member/212645/
Kurt Siehr
Director
Kurt Siehr
DirectorKurt Siehr is a research associate at the Hamburg Max-Planck-Institute of Comparative and International Private Law, Germany. Previously, he was Lecturer, Associate and Full Professor of private law, private international law and comparative law at the University of Zürich Faculty of Law (1981-2002); and Research Assistant and Research Associate at the Hamburg Max-Planck-Institute of Comparative and International Private Law (1963-1991). He is a member of the Swiss Society of International Law; German Society of International Law; German Council of Private International Law; International Law Association; Groupe européen de droit international privé; German Society of Comparative Law. Professor Siehr received his PhD at the University of Zürich Faculty of Law, Switzerland, and studied law at Hamburg, Germany and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. https://www.mpipriv.de/1068042/siehr-kurt
Stephen K. Urice
Director
Stephen K. Urice
DirectorStephen Urice is Professor of Law and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar and Arts Track Director for Miami Law's LL.M. in Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law, University of Miami School of Law, Florida, USA, since 2006. Previously, Professor Urice was Director of the Project for Cultural Heritage Law & Policy, University of Pennsylvania Law School; served at the Pew Charitable Trust, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and was Counsel and acting Director of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles. Prior to his academic career, Professor Urice was in private practice at Irell & Manella, Los Angeles and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York. He is a co-author of, Merryman, Elsen, and Urice, Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts (5th. ed., 2007). Professor Urice was President of the International Society for Cultural Property from xx to yy. Professor Urice is a member of the American Alliance of Museums, the International Council on Museums (U.S)., and the Archaeological Institute of America (life member since 1972). Professor Urice earned his B.A. in English from Tufts University and a M.T.S. (Old Testament), Ph.D. (Fine Arts), and J.D. from Harvard University. https://people.miami.edu/profile/s.urice@miami.edu