Originally from World Arbitration And Mediation Review (WAMR)

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A NAZI-LOOTED ART TRIBUNAL*

By Jennifer Anglim Kreder**

Nazi-looted art has been the subject of much recent litigation and many
news reports. Given the amount of art looted by the Nazis during World
War II still not located,1 this is not surprising even though sixty years have
passed since the end of the war. The international nature of the art market
during the war and ever since has caused much of the missing art to be
scattered throughout the world, and thus requires a global solution.2 With
ever more claims on the horizon,3 the art community of museums,
collectors, dealers, and galleries needs a real remedy — and Holocaust
survivors and their families deserve the highest measure of justice
achievable to attempt to un-do the Nazis’ targeted destruction of Jewish
culture and pillaging of its art.4 The most just and effective solution would
be to create an international tribunal with compulsory jurisdiction to resolve
all remaining disputes and clear title to artwork.