How Adopting the Lex Originis Rule Can Impede the Flow of Illicit Cultural Property

Fincham, D. (2008), ‘How Adopting the Lex Originis Rule Can Impede the Flow of Illicit Cultural Property’, Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts 32, 111.

This piece looks at the choice-of-law doctrine known as lex situs which would apply the law of the original location of a work of art when legal disputes arise, thus prohibiting art buyers from using ‘forum shopping’ to choose a nation with favorable laws for good faith purchasers.