Subjects:

Art Law

Contents:

List of illustrations

Preface to the first edition

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the third edition

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction by Magnus Magnusson

1. The Icelandic manuscripts

2. The Elgin Marbles debate

3. British and other European practice

4. Some British cases

5. American and Canadian practice

6. Russia and the former Soviet Union

7. The Hebrew manuscripts

8. International and regional regulation

9. Art theft and the art market

10. Plunder

11. The first people

12. Ground zero

13. Homecomings: real and virtual

Notes

List of appendices in microfiche in first edition (1989)

Select bibliography

Select list of web sites

Index.

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