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Upcoming Symposium On Acquiring and Maintaining Collections of Cultural Objects: Challenges Confronting American Museums in the 21st Century
DePaul College of Law Announces:8th Annual SymposiumAcquiring and Maintaining Collections of Cultural Objects: Challenges Confronting American Museums in the 21st CenturyMuseums face increasingly difficult challenges in collecting cultural objects-challenges that must be dealt with in ways that are consistent with best practices...

War and Peace: Art and Cultural Heritage Law in the 21st Century
If I could be anywhere on March 4, I'd be at the Cardozo Public Law, Policy, and Ethics Journal's symposium on War and Peace: Art and Cultural Heritage Law in the 21st Century. The Cardozo Law School website says: Cardozo...

Antiquities under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War
The University of Chicago's Cultural Policy Center has just released Antiquities under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War. Its website describes the book: As Saddam Hussein's government fell in April 2003, news accounts detailed the pillaging of from...

UNESCO Cultural Heritage Laws Database
UNESCO recently developed a searchable database of cultural heritage laws. The database is designed to assist with the preservation and regulation of cultural property. National laws from UN Member states are included covering art, archeology, shipwrecks, historical sites, oral traditions,...

"To what culture does the concept of 'cultural property' belong"
In today's New York Times, Edward Rothstein writes about James Cuno's "Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage" (mentioned earlier here):"Seen in this light the very notion of cultural property is narrow and flawed...

DePaul Conference on Acquiring and Maintaining Collections of Cultural Objects
This fall, on October 16, DePaul Law School's Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology and the Program in Cultural Heritage Law will host a conference on "Acquiring and Maintaining Collections of Cultural Objects: Challenges Confronting American Museums in...

University of Illinois Medical Center
Potential $14 Million in Malpractice Settlements

Siouxland Urology Center
Sued for Potentially Exposing Clients to HIV and Hepatitis

Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada
alleging gross negligence in reusing syringes linked to a hepatitis C outbreak.

Doctor Negligence
VA Medical Center to pay $1.3 million settlement in malpractice lawsuit.

Lake Superior Center Authority
$275,000 settlement reached in construction dispute.

Pittsburgh Cancer Center
Wanrs of Cell Phone and Cancer Risk