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These links refer to claims for restitution throughout the world, particularly claims for restitution or reparations for major historical injustices. After the general links, there is a special section below on the claim to the Parthenon Marbles ("the Elgin Marbles").

	About the Basic Legal Principles of the Russian Law by Mark Boguslawskij (Spoils of War)

	Act on Restitution of Real Estate Ownership to Churches and Parishes (Chechova and Partners, Bratislava) (2005)

	Aetna, CSX, FleetBoston face slave reparations suit by James Cox (USA Today) (March 2002)

	Aetna, other companies to be named in slavery lawsuit (Associated Press) (March 2002)

	Africa Reparations Movement (UK)

	AFROMET (Association for the Return of The Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures)

	After a century of overcharging blacks, insurance industry facing lawsuits, restitution by Jeff Donn (SFGate.com) (October 2004)

	A Legacy Lost by Donald Macintyre (Time Asia) (February 2003)

	Aleut Internment (US National Park Service)

	American Corporations' Enrichment from Slavery - Notice of Intent

	American firms sued over 'links to slavery' by Sam Leith (Daily Telegraph) (January 2004)

	American Insurance Association v. Garamendi - News and Commentary (Duke Law)

	American seeks restitution by Dinah A Spritzer (Prague Post) (July 2004)

	A new chapter in a painful history by Gillian Sandford (Guardian) (February 2005)

	An Inside Job? (Antiquities Watch) (March 2009)

	Answers on the law of return (The Diplomat) (May 2005)

	Apology and Reparations for Slavery

	Appropriation of Assets and Labour by the Third Reich

	Arguing for reparations by Robert K Fullinwider

	Art in Time of War: Pillage, Plunder, Repression, Reparations and Restitution (Harry S Martin, Harvard Law School)

	Asking who benefited from slavery invites racist attacks by Anthony J Sebok (cnn.com) (March 2001)

	Association for the Return of The Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures

	Association for Restitution of Private Property in Macedonia

	Austria 'may return looted art' (BBC News) (April 2006)

	Austrian Historical Commission

	Austrian Journalist That Helped Art Restitution Dies (artdaily.com) (June 2006)

	Austria - Russia, Allies - Legal aspects of treatment of looted cultural goods by Thomas Schreiner (April 2000)

	Austria 'slow to correct Nazi past' (BBC News) (February 2003)

	A woman's fight for her family's art by Howard Reich (Chicago Tribune) (February 2004)

	Bach Is Back in Berlin: The Return of the Sing-Akademie Archive from Ukraine in the Context of Displaced Cultural Treasures and Restitution Politics by Patricia Grimsted (April 2003)

	Back from Nowhere: The restitution of Belgian looted collections (1991-2001) by Michel Vermote (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) (September 2001)

	Background to restitution (Department of Land Affairs)

	Bank Predecessors Tied to Slavery by James Genyard (Wells of Justice)

	Berry Urges Blacks to Continue Reparations Movement (FreeRepublic.com) (March 2002)

	Bibliography - Restitution for and repatriation of looted gold and cultural property in Europe after World War II

	Black Menagerie: Struggle For Reparations Goes On by Bill Bradberry (Niagara Falls Reporter) (March 2002)

	Blacks file slavery suits against US firms (FreeRepublic.com) (September 2002)

	Blue Shield (ICBS): Statement on Impact of War on Cultural Heritage in Iraq (March 2003)

	Britain blocks EU apology for slave trade (The Guardian) (September 2001)

	British law change to allow restitution of looted art (Cronaca) (July 2005)

	British Museum receives restitution claim (May 2002)

	Business and International Crimes: Assessing the Liability of Business Entities for Grave Violations of International Law (FAFO)

	Causa Bloch-Bauer

	Central Europe's Aristocrats Want Ancestral Fortunes Back (Deutsche Welle) (July 2006)

	Chart of Dismissed Federal Holocaust Claims by Jennifer Anglim Kreder (ssrn.com) (July 2010)

	Chinese Head Tax And Exclusion Act Redress: Questions And Answers (September 2003)

	Choosing Sides In The Reparations Issue by William Reed

	City to return looted painting to Jewish heir in Los Angeles (SFGate.com) (March 2006)

	Collector will settle in Picasso Nazis took by Howard Reich (Chicago Tribune) (August 2005)

	Commentary on the draft law 'On Recognition, Restitution and Compensation of Property' (OSCE) (November 2003)

	Commission on Restitution of Land Rights

	Commission for Looted Art in Europe

	Commission pour l'Indemnisation des Victimes de Spoliations

	Companies sued for reparations by James Cox (USA Today) (March 2002)

	Compensation and Restitution by country (Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany) (May 2004)

	Compensation Claims for Human Rights Breaches Committed by German Armed Forces Abroad During the Second World War: Federal Court of Justice Hands Down Decision in the Distomo Case by Sabine Pittrof (German Law Journal) (January 2004)

	Compensation for Victims of Nazism in and from Austria: A Never Ending Story by Brigitte Bailer-Galanda (Center for Austrian Studies; Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies) (September 2004)

	Compensation for Slavery (FreeRepublic.com) (October 2000)

	Completing the transition: Lithuania Nears The End Of Its Land Restitution And Reform Programme by William Valetta (September 2000)

	Conference on Jewish material claims against Germany

	Confiscation of Jewish property in Norway during World War II (1997)

	Corporate Bill for Slavery by John S Friedman (The Nation) (February 2003) (also here)

	Court clears way for suit against the Vatican Bank for Nazi gold (San Jose Business Journal) (April 2005)

	Court of Restitution Appeals Reports (1951-1966)

	Court rejects Germans' property restitution claims (San Diego Union-Tribune) (October 2008)

	Croatia Pressed On Shoah Restitution (Jewish Times) (November 2005)

	Cultural Property, Restitution and Value by Janna Thompson (abstract only) (2003)

	Cultural Property: Return and illicit trade (Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee 7th Report) (July 2000)

	Czech diplomats ask Serbia to extend restitution deadline (CeskéNoviny) (June 2006)

	Dark spot continues to blot Romania�s record on religious freedom (Hungarian American Coalition)

	Delays and Legal Obstacles Continue to Hinder the Restoration of Church and Community Properties to Romania�s Hungarian Minority (Hungarian Online Resources) (April 2004) (also here)

	Demanding our property (Hungarian Historical Christian Churches in Romania) (2002)

	Descendant of SC slave sues 3 companies for reparations (Knight Ridder news) (March 2002)

	Descendants of US Slaves Sue Firms for Unpaid Work (Guardian Newspapers) (April 2002)

	Developing Legal Strategies to Advance Reparations by Adjoa A Aiyetoro

	Discharging a debt: until America acknowledges the devastating effects of slavery on the current economic condition of African Americans, the issue of reparations will never become law by Ellis Cose (Black Enterprise) (July 2004)

	Documenting the Costs Of Slavery, Segregation, and Contemporary Discrimination: Are Reparations in Order for African Americans? by Joe R Feagin (also here and here ) (2000)

	Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund

	Egypt wants Berlin museum to return bust of Queen Nefertiti

	Elderly Woman Sues Club Med Over Seized Property In Cuba (Local6.com) (July 2004)

	Enemy Property Payment Scheme

	Ethics Charges Leveled at Lawyer Who Fostered Holocaust Settlement by John Covaleski (New Jersey Law Jour) (January 2005)

	Ethics, Law and Heritage by Guido Carducci (2005)

	EU presidency to highlight Jewish restitution (Prague Post, August 2008)

	Everybody’s Debt by John S Reed (April 2001)

	Ex-Black Panther Sues Bush, Pope, Elizabeth II Over Slavery (NewsMax.com) (January 2004)

	Expert says Aboriginal Australians are owed 'stolen wages' (Melbourne University) (June 2004)

	Eyes Wide Shut: Displaced Cultural Objects in Russian Law and Adjudication by Alexander Blankenagel (East European Constitutional Rev) (1999)

	Fabled Bran Castle Restituted to H&R / RMDT Client (Herzfeld and Rubin / Rubin Meyer Doru and Trandafir) (2006)

	Family gets back looted Munch masterpiece after 53-year battle by Charlotte Higgins (Guardian) (November 2006)

	Federal and State Laws Regarding Holocaust Restitution

	Federal Law on Cultural Valuables Displaced to the USSR as a Result of World War II (1997)

	Federal Lawsuit Seeks Slave Reparations from Three Companies by William Baue (SocialFunds.com) (April 2002)

	Financial compensation for Nazi slave laborers (2000)

	FindLaw Forum: Asking who benefited from slavery invites racist attacks by Anthony J Sebok (cnn.com) (March 2001)

	Firms fearful of slavery pay-outs (BBC News) (August 2001)

	First Nations press for rights and restitution by Marcel Hatch (1998)

	FleetBoston named in lawsuit seeking reparations for slavery (Associated Press) (March 2002)

	General Settlement Fund - in rem restitution (Austrian Consulate General, New York)

	Georgia promotes property payback for South Ossetia peace by Molly Corso (EurasiaNet) (April 2006)

	German court denies retailer's Nazi reparations claim (JURIST) (March 2005)

	German Forced Labour Compensation Program

	German Leader Rejects Restitution Claims (dw-world.de) (August 2004)

	Germany Has Paid Out More Than $61.8 Billion in Third Reich Reparations (Radio Islam) (1998)

	Germany signs agreement to compensate Nazi slave laborers (cnn.com) (July 2000)

	Germany to pay €9m more to Holocaust survivors (Globes) (May 2005)

	Getty Ex-Curator Testifies in Rome Antiquities Trial (New York Times) (March 2009)

	Grandson of German prince who plotted to kill Hitler launches legal bid to win back his family's £6m estate (Mail Online) (December 2008)

	Greens Support Lawsuit Seeking Restitution From Financial Firms That Profited From Slavery (Green Party of the United States) (October 2006)

	Haiti demands Restitution of the 1825 Ransom Exacted by France as Compensation for the Repeal of Slavery (June 2004)

	Handbook on property restitution in Romania

	Heir of Russian Collector Sues Los Angeles Museum (Wall Street Journal) (July 2003)

	Helsinki Commission (US) statement on property restitution

	Holocaust Compensation (September 2000)

	Holocaust Compensation and Restitution By Country (December 2003)

	Holocaust Foundation for Individual Insurance Claims

	Holocaust Issues (US Embassy, Vienna)

	Holocaust Justice and Financial Accountability by Michael J Bazyler and William Elperin (The '1939' Club)

	Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts by Michael J Bazyler (April 2003)

	Holocaust Restitution

	Holocaust Restitution (Simon Wiesenthal Center)

	Holocaust Restitution in Israel � Shadows from the Past? by Guy E Carmi (University of Virginia School of Law) (April 2006)

	Holocaust Restitution Litigation In The United States: An Update by Michael J Bazyler and Kearston G Everitt (ACLU)

	Holocaust Survivors Claims Against Swiss Banks

	Holocaust Survivors hold protest before Austrian bank (May 2005)

	Holocaust Survivors May Exclude Certain Restitution Payments From Income (IRS) (August 2001)

	Holocaust Survivors to Battle Austrian Bank by David M Bresnahan (also here) (June 2005)

	Holocaust Victim Assets Claims

	Hong Kong Reparation Association

	Honoring Slaves: Calls for Slavery Restitution Getting Louder (June 2001)

	Housing and property restitution for returnees in Tajikistan in the 1990s by Luise Druke (2000)

	Houstonians join rally cry for reparations in DC by Kristen Mack (The Houston Chronicle) (August 2002)

	How Far Back Should We Go?: Why Restitution Should be Small by Tyler Cowen (November 2002) (also )

	How Japanese companies built fortunes on American POWs by Sayuri Shimizu (Japan Today) (May 2002)

	How The Japanese Used American POWs For Slave Labor by Stephen Goode

	Hubertus Czernin, 50; tracked looted art by Elisabeth Penz and Jon Thurber (Boston Globe)

	Human rights and civil litigation in United States courts: the holocaust-era cases by Samuel P Baumgartner (Washington University Law Quarterly) (Fall 2002)

	Human Rights Case Against Poland Opens New Legal Front in Seeking Restitution for Victims of Holocaust (PRWeb) (February 2005)

	Hungarian Holocaust Survivors/Heirs Pursue Restitution From US Government for Gold Train Assets Lawsuit asserts the United States made no effort to return valuable personal assets (Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro) (May 2001)

	IBM escapes Holocaust suit by Drew Cullen (March 2001)

	ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums (July 2001)

	Illicit Antiquities Research Centre

	Illicit Cultural Property Blog (Derek Fincham)

	Immoral Law, Illegal Morals? NS Forced Labor Compensation and the Law by Viktor Winkler (German Law Journal) (January 2002)

	Impediments to actual church property restitution in Romania must be eliminated (Transylvanian Monitor) (January 2006)

	In Defense of Black Reparations by Manning Marable (October 2002) (also here, here and here) (also here )

	Indigenous Peoples Push for Restitution by Michelle Nel (September 2003)

	Individual Property Restitution: From Deng to Pinheiro - and the Challenges Ahead by Giulia Paglione (abstract only) (International Journal of Refugee Law) (ssrn.com) (2008)

	Institute of Art and Law

	International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims

	International conference on cultural property stolen in Iraq (Interpol) (May 2003)

	International Law Aspects of the Verdict of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation of the 20th of June, 1999, on the case of verifying the compliance of some articles of the Law "On Cultural Valuables, Displaced to the USSR as a Result of World War II and located on the territory of the Russian Federation" by V Andrianov

	Internment of Japanese Americans in Concentration Camps

	Internment of Ukrainians in Canada 1914-1920 (January 2000)

	JapaneseCanadianHistory.net

	Jewish Restitution Campaigns by Shraga Elam (1998)

	Jews of Euro-Asia by Vyacheslav Yakubenko (Euro-Asian Jewish Congress) (March 2003)

	Jurisdiction Under The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act For Nazi War Crimes Of Plunder And Expropriation by Michael D Murray (Jour Legislation and Public Policy) (2004)

	Justice, Redress and Restitution (26th annual Holocaust Lecture Series at Vanderbilt ) (July 2003)

	Justice Remains Beyond Grasp Of Too Many Holocaust Victims by Stuart Eizenstat (NCSJ) (October 2002)

	Kenya groups seek justice for stolen forest land (Reuters) (September 2006)

	Klimt Painting Stays in Austria After Panel Ruling (Associated Press) (May 2006)

	Land act aims at restitution by Cobus Grobler (October 2003)

	Land and Property Rights in the Peace Process by Jon D Unruh (January 2004)

	Land claims 'to be settled by 2005' (BuaNews) (November 2003)

	Land, housing and property restitution after conflict: principles and practice by Conor Foley (Humanitarian Practice Network) (2005)

	Land restitution calls for thinking outside the fences by Edward West (Business Report)

	Land restitution process on track: AgriSA (SABCnews) (October 2004)

	Lauder's Mix of Restitution and Collecting by Celestine Bohlen (New York Times) (February 2003)

	Law-Related Resources on Nazi Gold and Other Holocaust Assets

	Lawyer Sanctioned in Holocaust Suit by Daniel Wise (New York Law Jour) (August 2005)

	Leave No Stone Unturned: The Search For Art Stolen By The Nazis And The Legal Rules Governing Restitution Of Stolen Art by Kelly Diane Walton (abstract only) (Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Jour) (1999)

	Le destin juridique des oeuvres d'art hongroises enlevées en Russie par József Gehér (Miskolc Jour of International Law) (2004) (also )

	Legacies of the Past or New Institutions? The Struggle Over Restitution in Hungary by Ellen Comisso (abstract only) (Comparative Political Studies) (1995)

	Legal Protection of Cultural Property: A Selective Resource Guide by Louise Tsang (April 2004)

	Les Kwakwaka'wakws contre le British Museum (Le Devoir .com) (October 2003)

	Litigating the Holocaust by Michael J Bazyler (April 1999)

	Litigation Over Picasso Painting Settled Out of Court (Burris and Schoenberg) (August 2005)

	Looted Art catalogue

	L'Or�al profited from victims of Nazis, court told by Amelia Gentleman (Guardian) (October 2004)

	Lost Art Internet Database

	Lost Information and Competing Interests in Restoring Germany's Dispossessed Property - The Recent Decision of the German Federal Administrative Court by Hanri Mostert (German Law Jour) (January 2004)

	Mahler family fights for Munch masterpiece (CBC Arts) (February 2006)

	Major Changes in Property Restitution Law (rom-econ) (May 2005)

	Many Difficult Issues Surrounding The Restitution Of Jewish Property In Central And Eastern Europe (American Jewish Committee) (1997)

	Men who worked in Japanese mines during World War II sue for wages and damages by Vanessa Hua (San Francisco Chronicle) (May 2003)

	Mind Bytes on Reparations by James L Hirsen (FirstLiberties.com) (September 2002)

	Ministerial advisory panel on illicit trade in art and antiquities (December 2000)

	Money For Nothing by Joseph C Hinson (March 2002)

	Museum Security Network

	Music, art and memory: Mahler's family fights for return of Munch masterpiece (Guardian) (February 2006)

	National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N�COBRA)

	National Reactions to Cultural Property Looting in Nazi Germany: A Window on Individual Effort and International Disarray by Molly Ann Torsen (Electronic Jour of Comparative Law) (December 2005)

	Nations draw fire over art looted in war (Chicago Tribune) (July 2002)

	Nazi Gold (Frontline)

	Nazi Gold: Information from the British Archives - part 1 (January 1997) and part 2 (FCO) (May 1997)

	Nazi gold - Vatican Bank ruling (9th Circuit) (JURIST) (April 2005)

	Nazi loot is won back (BBC News) (October 2000)

	Nazi Slave Labor Compensation (Seminar Report) (German Law Journal) (January 2001)

	New legislation to allow return of Nazi loot (Elginism) (October 2008)

	New Reparations Plan for Japanese Latin Americans (AsianWeek) (May 2000)

	New trillion-dollar reparations lawsuit filed by Nisa Islam Muhammad (The Final Call) (24 September 2002)

	New housing, land and property restitution rights by Scott Leckie (Forced Migration Review) (May 2006)

	No Home, No Protection (Pravda) (November 2002) (also here)

	Non-Reformist Reparations for Africa - Repairing the damage by Justin Podur

	Oil Giant may face ruling on forced labor in Burma (Sentido.tv) (July 2004)

	Old Master Drawings at Sotheby's (artdaily.com) (June 2005)

	Or nazi : ouverture des archives de la Commission tripartite pour la restitution de l'or monétaire

	Origins unknown (also here)

	Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet

	Patrimoine - Pr�s de 300 antiquit�s export�es ill�galement attendues au Caire (ledevoir.com) (December 2003)

	Payback time (Guardian) (August 2001)

	Paying Back The Slavery Debt by Salim Muwakkil (Chicago Tribune) (April 2000)

	Pay the community, not slave descendants by William H Alexander (July 2002)

	Perpetuating the Nazi confiscation (Museum Security Network) (February 2009)

	Peru sues Yale for disputed Inca artifacts by Andrew Whalen (December 2008)

	Pink Triangle Coalition - Restitution for gay survivors

	Plan for art looted by Nazis to be returned to owners (Guardian, March 2009)

	Plan to centralize holocaust restitution by Uriel Heilman (Jewish News of Greater Phoenix) (July 2004)

	Plunder and Provenance by Aisha Labi (Time Europe) (May 2000)

	Plunder and Restitution: Findings and Recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets (December 2000) (also here and here)

	Poland debates communist property seizures (cnn.com) (November 2000)

	Policy on the restitution of land rights (African National Congress)

	POW Forced Labor Lawsuits Against Japanese Companies by Kinue Tokudome (JPRI Working Paper) (November 2001)

	Preliminary reflections on aspects of holocaust-era litigation in American courts by Burt Neuborne (Washington University Law Quarterly) (Fall 2002)

	Preliminary Study on U.S. and Allied Efforts To Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen or Hidden by Germany During World War II (May 1997)

	Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the US

	Pressure Russia To Reveal Looted Art’s Heritage (Forward) (September 2006)

	Principles of compensation for nationalised property by Daniel Arthur Lapres (Int'l and Comp Law Q) (1977)

	Private Restitution Proposal Possible by Shmuel Ben Eliezer (Jewish Press) (May 2006)

	Problems of Property Restitution in Transylvania by Katherine Verdery

	ProJusticia - Property restitution

	Property Compensation: Observations on Turkey�s Compensation Law No 5233 (Statement by Rhodri C Williams, Consultant, Brookings Institution-University of Bern Project on Internal Displacement) (February 2006)

	Property Restitution Deal for South Ossetia by Victoria Gujelashvili (Caucasus Reporting Service) (March 2006)

	Property Restitution in Central and Eastern Europe by Stuart Eizentat, Under Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs (March 1999)

	Property Restitution in Central and Eastern Europe: The State of Affairs for American Claimants

	Property Rights and Transitional Justice: Restitution in Hungary and East Germany by Jessica Tucker-Mohl (May 2005)

	Property Seizures in the 20th and 21st Century by Alexandra Mareschi (October 2005)

	Prosaic Justice by Anthony Sebok (Legal Affairs) (September 2002)

	'Reasonableness' or strict law? The postwar restitution of property rights in the Netherlands and in France (1945-1952) by Wouter Veraart (December 2002)

	Recent lawsuits mark beginning of push for slavery reparations by Deborah Kong (The Daily Athenaeum) (April 2002)

	Re-claiming Palestine: The Legal Basis for Rights of Return and Restitution by Susan Akram, Souad Dajani and Bret Thiele (The Jerusalem Fund) (August 2005)

	Reconceiving reparations: multiple strategies in the reparations debate by Eric J Miller (Boston College Third World Law Jour) (2004)

	Reconciliation and Non-Repetition: A New Paradigm for African-American Reparations by Maxine Burkett (U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper) (October 2006)

	Reconstructing Iraq and Who Pays: Is There an International Responsibility to Reconstruct a Country Destroyed by War? by Katharina Kunzmann (German Law Jour) (July 2003)

	Repairing the Past: New Efforts in the Reparations Debate in America by Charles J Ogletree, Jr (Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Rev) (2003)

	Reparations and Unjust Enrichment by Emily Sherwin (2004) (also here)

	Reparations for Afro-Americans (Alternative Insight) (March 2003)

	Reparations for Slavery Now by Robert V Ward Jr (Providence Jour) (March 2004)

	Reparations litigation: What about unjust enrichment? by Margalynne Armstrong (Oregon Law Rev) (2002)

	Reparations movement growing strong (PR Leap) (July 2006)

	Reparations Now! (nyahbinghi.org)

	Reparations Reparations Reparations: Litigation Putting a Price on Crime Against Humanity (BlackState.com) (2002)

	Reparations Suit Filed in California (Deadria Farmer-Paellmann) (September 2002)

	Reparations Suit Leaves Opening by Salim Muwakkil (In These Times) (February 2004) (also here)

	Reparations Symposium (Boston College Third World Law Jour) (2004)

	Reparations Talk: Reparations for Slavery and the Tort Law Analogy by Alfred L Brophy (ssrn.com) (2004) (also here)

	Reparations within the Rule of Law by Kaimipono D Wenger (Concurring Opinions) (March 2006)

	Report of the Knesset Inquiry Committee on the Location and Restitution of the Assets (in Israel) of Holocaust Victims by MK Colette Avital (2005) (see also Interim Report, August 2000)

	Reports of cultural property incidents (Museum Security Network)

	Requests to the Government of Canada for Restitution (February 1997)

	Restitution (Department of Land Affairs)

	Restitution: A Romanian Sçmecherie (The Romanian Digest)

	Restitution-Art

	Restitution and Compensation (Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet) (March 2000)

	Restitution and reparations are our solution, not further oppression of Aboriginal People by Michael Anderson (June 2006)

	Restitution and Slavery by Hanoch Dagan (ssrn.com) (May 2004)

	Restitution as a Precondition of Reconciliation: Native Hawaiians and Indigenous Human Rights by Haunani-Kay Trask (2002)

	Restitution: a Major Component in Durable Solutions (badil) (October 2003)

	Restitution by France to Haiti (HaitiAction.net) (April 2003)

	Reparation For Holocaust-Era Human Rights Violations by Ágnes Peresztegi (Jewish Studies)

	Restitution Guide (Conference on Jewish material claims against Germany) (1999)

	Restitution idea flawed, erroneous (Hattiesburg American) (June 2001)

	Restitution (Museum Security Network) (April 1999)

	Restitution: Can Entitlement to Tenure Reform break through the Constitutional Barrier of the 1913 cut-off Date? by Durkje Gilfillan (from Land Tenure in Development Cooperation)

	Restitution Issues and the Activism of American Jews: An Interview with Stuart Eizenstat by Manfred Gerstenfeld (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) (March 2004)

	Restitution law by year's end (B92) (October 2006)

	Restitution law in Bosnia discriminates in favor of Muslims (Dhimmi Watch) (July 2006)

	Restitution of a Bété statue stolen from the National Museum of Abidjan

	Restitution of Confiscated Art from Germany (Joel Levi and Co)

	Restitution of Illicit Assets Act passed by Swiss Parliament (Zeropoint Field, October 2010)

	Restitution of Jewish property in Poland (Mike Rosenzweig)

	Restitution of Palestinian Property by Issam Mufid Nashashibi (Media Monitors Network) (February 2001) (also here, here and here)

	Restitution of Property (The TransAtlantic Assembly) (July 2005)

	Restitution of Property in Post-Communist Czechoslovakia by Vojtech Cepl (Centre for Central and Eastern European Studies, University of Liverpool) (also here)

	Restitution or Compensation for Expropriated Property? (German Unification Case Study)

	Restitution Statistics

	Restitution Study Group

	Restitution vs. Resettlement (The Jerusalem Post)

	Restoring the Debt: Descendents of Slaves File for Reparations From US Corporations That Profited From Slavery (democracynow.org) (March 2002)

	Revision of Priorities in South African Land Law by David L Carey-Miller (1997)

	Right the wrongs of ill-gotten gains (Guardian) (March 2009)

	'Righting historic wrongs': Museums and the return of cultural heritage by Ana Filipa Vrdoljak (abstract only)

	Rising up against restitution by Lenka Ponikelska (Prague Post) (January 2004)

	Romania: Changes enacted to real estate laws by Wolf Theiss (International Financial Law Rev) (September 2005)

	Romania government okays property restitution law (Romania Economics) (July 2005)

	Romanian government plans to speed up property restitution to Jews and other communities (Associated Press) (March 2005)

	Rudolf Leopold, the man who 'rediscovered' Schiele (European Jewish Press) (February 2006)

	Ruling aids families' historic quest (Prague Post) (June 2005)

	Russia: Moscow Grapples With Question Of 'Trophy Art' Restitution (Radio Free Europe) (July 2005)

	Russia's Trophy Archives - An Update on Restitution Issues by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University) (September 2001)

	Serbia drags its feet on restitution by Georgi Mitev-Shantek (Southeast European Times) (September 2006)

	Serbia: Restitution Law passed by Drasko Djenovic (Forum 18 News Service) (June 2006)

	Serbian FM pledges Holocaust compensation law by David Machlis (Jerusalem Post) (November 2006)

	Should ancient art be given back? (Elginism) (January 2009)

	Should Britain return the Koh-i-noor diamond? (Elginism) (March 2009)

	Should claims based on african-american slavery be litigated in the courts? And if so, how? by Anthony J Sebok (December 2000)

	Should nationalized property be restituted to former owners in Russia? (JRL) (December 2005)

	Should Slave Descendants be Granted Reparations? (CNN Transcripts) (March 2002)

	Sins of our fathers - Americans don't like losers by Brian Hinkle (Ether Zone) (April 2002)

	Sins of the fathers (Lifeworth Annual Review of Corporate Responsibility) (2003)

	Slavery, Racist Violence, American Apartheid: The Case for Reparations by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua (New Politics) (2001)

	Slave Reparations (PBS) (January 2001)

	Slave reparations are unlikely, but lawsuit may prod companies by Seth Stern (Christian Science Monitor) (March 2002)

	Slavery Reparations (Katherine Porter, Mount Holyoke)

	Slavery Reparations (January 2004)

	Slavery reparations: A misguided movement by Peter H Schuck (JURIST) (December 2002)

	Slavery Reparations Effort May Have Its Day in Court by Christine Hall (CNSNews.com) (March 2002)

	Slavery reparations - One man's suit tests scepticism by Denise Smith Amos (Cincinnati.com) (May 2002)

	Slaves to Fashion by B Conner (www.indybay.org) (April 2002) (also here)

	Some Conceptual and Legal Problems in Reparations for Slavery by Alfred L Brophy (also here ) (2003)

	Spoils of War

	Spoliation Advisory Panel Recommends Restitution Of Painting Lost During Nazi Era (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) (November 2004)

	Spoliation des biens culturels juifs (Canadian Heritage Information Network)

	Spoliation of works of art during the Holocaust and World War II period (February 2000)

	State must fix squatter problem (news24.com) (May 2004)

	State payments made by the Federal Republic of Germany in the area of indemnification (German Embassy, Ottowa) (January 2000)

	Stemming the flood of looted antiquities by Colin Renfrew (British Archaeology) (December 1997)

	Stolen Art and the Legacy of Holocaust-Era Assets (Washington, November 1998)

	Stolen by Austria by E Randol Schoenberg (February 2000)

	Stolen Property or Finders Keepers by Dede Tisone-Bartels

	Street Scenes and Other Scenes from Berlin - Legal Issues in the Restitution of Art after the Third Reich by Anna Blume Huttenlauch (German Law Jour) (October 2006)

	Suing Hitler's Willing Business Partners: American Justice and Holocaust Morality by Michael J Bazyler (Jewish Political Studies Rev) (2004)

	Suit seeks billions in slave reparations (CNN) (March 2002)

	Summary of Property Restitution in Central and Eastern Europe (September 2003, updated April 2006) (also here )

	Swedish Restitution of Looted Monetary Gold

	Switzerland and the Holocaust assets

	Symposium on Holocaust Restitution (abstracts only) (Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Jour) (2001)

	Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Injustice by Janna Thompson (also here)

	The Advisory Committee on the assessment of restitution applications

	The Auschwitz Memorial Museum and the Case of the Gypsy Portraits by Dora Apel (Other Voices) (March 2002)

	The Battle For Berlin by Peter Gumbel (Time Europe) (July 2003)

	The Brooklyn Slavery Class Action: More Than Just A Political Gambit by Anthony J Sebok (April 2002)

	The Bulgarian Restitution, the Constitution and the Human Rights

	The California Cure for Japanese War Crimes by Jonathan Levy (Flame) (2000)

	The call for reparations gaining momentum by Donna Lamb (Greenwich Village Gazette) (also here) (April 2002)

	The Case for Black Reparations by Robert Westley

	The Commission on Jewish Assets in Sweden at the Time of the Second World War (1997)

	The Conditions of Just Return: State Responsibility and Restitution for Refugees by Megan Bradley (Refugee Studies Centre) (March 2005)

	The continuing effects of slavery: reparations and the moral mandate of apology by Terrence Edward Paupp (2003)

	The Contract Theory of Reparations by Rotan E Lee (Executive Editor Commentary) (2004)

	The Czech and Slovak Law Of Restitution - A Brief Outline by Volker G Heinz (October 1994)

	The Dangers of Holocaust Restitution by Abraham H. Foxman (Anti-Defamation League) (December 1998)

	The difficulties of recovering looted artefacts (Elginism) (February 2009)

	The ethics of museum acquisitions (Elginism) (October 2008)

	The Ford Motor Company and The Third Reich by Simon Reich (Dimensions) (also here) (2000)

	The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices by Elazar Barkan (December 2001)

	The Holocaust, Museum Ethics, and Legalism by Jennifer Anglim Kreder (Southern California Rev of Law and Social Justice) (ssrn.com) (2008)

	The Holocaust Restitution Movement In Comparative Perspective by Michael J Bazyler (June 2001)

	The Horowitz slavery ad controversy, and the problem with conceptualizing human rights violations as property-based by Anthony J Sebok (March 2001)

	The illicit trade in cultural property

	The Implementation of the Washington Principles � Some Legal Aspects by Harald König (Federal Office for Central Services and Unresolved Property Issues)

	The Legal Basis of the Claim for Slavery Reparations by Anthony Gifford (ABA) (also here)

	The long fight for Holocaust compensation (BBC News, January 2000)

	The Looting of Asia by Chalmers Johnson (London Review of Books) (November 2003)

	The Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal Project

	Theoretical Underpinnings for Reparations: A Constitutional Tort Perspective by Ken Cooper-Stephenson (abstract only) (also here)

	The Pinheiro Principles (UN Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons) (COHRE)

	The Politics of Restitution for Nazi Victims in Germany West and East (1945-2000) by Constantin Goschler (September 2003)

	The Post-Holocaust Restitution Era: Holocaust Restitution as a Model for Addressing Other Historical Injustices by Michael J Bazyler (March 2003)

	The Promise of Restitution of Indigenous Rights in Venezuela by Robin Nieto (October 2004)

	The Recovery from Austria of Five Paintings by Gustav Klimt by E Randol Schoenberg? (IFAR) (July 2006)

	The Reisel/Bruland report on the confiscation of Jewish property in Norway during World War II (1997)

	The Repatriation of Cultural Objects by Leong Yew

	The Right to Compensation in International Law and the Displaced Palestinians by Michael Lynk (Palestinian Development Research Net) (January 2001)

	The Right to Restitution and Compensation in International Law and the Displaced Palestinians by Michael Lynk (Refuge) (February 2003)

	The Right to Restitution: Law, Principles, Mechanisms - Comparative Experience and the Palestinian Refugee Case (October 2003)

	The rights to restitution, compensation and rehabilitation in a post apartheid South Africa by Jeremy Pickering

	The Russian Law on Cultural Property Displaced to the USSR as a Result of World War II (The Documentation Project)

	The Time for Apologies and Restitution Is Not Yet Over by Martin Woollacott (The Guardian) (September 2001)

	The True Cost of Reparations by William Norman Grigg (RaceMatters.org) (2001)

	The Usefulness of the UNCCP Archives for Palestinian Refugee Compensation/ Restitution Claims by Michael R Fischbach (June 2003)

	The vexed question of paying for slavery (BBC News) (August 2004)

	The War Over Plunder: Who Owns Art Stolen in War? by Colin Woodard (HistoryNet.com) (Summer 2010)

	The World of Atonement Reparations for Historical Injustices by Dinah Shelton (Miskolc Jour of International Law) (2004)

	Trade, property restitution on table as president of Ukraine visits US by Vladimir Matveyev (July 2005)

	Trading With The Enemy: Holocaust Restitution, the United States Government, and American Industry by Michael Bazyler and Amber Fitzgerald (Brooklyn Jour of International Law) (2003)

	Tutu tackles government over reparations by Christelle Terreblanche (Sunday Tribune) (February 2004)

	Two Concepts of Injustice in Restitution for Slavery by Anthony J Sebok (ssrn) (November 2004)

	Uganda - restitution, compensation and rehabilitation by Edward Khiddu-Makubuya

	Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association

	Ukrainian Canadian Restitution Proposal (1994)

	Ukrainian Canadian Restitution To Be Considered by Canada's Parliament (BRAMA) (October 2004)

	Ukrainian Forced/Slave Labor Class Action Litigations (Myroslaw Smorodsky)

	Ukrainian Premier Discusses Jewish Concerns On Anti-Semitism, Property Restitution (Charity Wire) (February 1999)

	Unclaimed Assets .com

	UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects (1995)

	UNIDROIT Convention on stolen or illegally exported cultural objects (Law Reform Commission of Ireland) (1997)

	Unjust enrichment: JP Morgan got paid off slavery

	Unjust Enrichment � Nauru (The Head Heeb) (May 2005)

	Unjustifiable Restitution by Scott E Peterman (May 2002)

	Un-settling the holocaust by Anthony J Sebok (August 2000)

	US and Allied Efforts To Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen or Hidden by Germany During World War II (January 1998) (also here) (see also this preliminary study)

	US apologizes for soldier thefts from Nazi 'gold train' (JURIST) (October 2005)

	US Congress Calls on Romania To Accelerate Property Restitution (Hungarian American Coalition) (May 2005)

	US Corporations Sued for Reparations by Saeed Shabazz (FinalCall.com) (April 2002) (also here)

	US firms face slave reparations suit (BBC News) (March 2002)

	US firms hit with $1.4t slavery suits (New York Post) (March 2002)

	US Helsinki Commission Seeks Action on Nazi, Communist-Era Property Restitution (US Helsinki Commission) (December 2005)

	US Restitution of Nazi-Looted Cultural Treasures to the USSR, 1945-1959 by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (2000)

	US Slaves Compensation (Radio National) (March 2002)

	Vatican Bank Claims

	Vatican bank sued for alleged war crimes by Sherman H Skolnick

	Views on compensation from the West for the slave trade (Times) (September 2001)

	Vilnus lost by Paul Jaskunas (2003)

	What can be learnt from the Egyptian approach to restitution (Elginism) (October 2008)

	Whites and reparations: A call 'to do our first works over' by Jennifer Harvey

	Whose Art is It Anyway? by Anne Marie O�Connor (LA Times) (December 2001)

	Why a Millions for Reparations rally? by Conrad W Worrill (The Final Call) (July 2002)

	Without Co-ops There Would be No Forests!: Historical Memory and the Restitution of Forests in Post-socialist Bulgaria by Barbara A Cellarius (Conservation and Society) (June 2004)

	Woman Wins Leave to Sue Austria in Us for Looted Art (Guardian) (June 2004)

	WWII and the looted art problem (Museum Security Network)

The Parthenon Marbles

A particularly famous current claim is that of the Greek Government against the United Kingdom, for the return of the marble sculptures taken from the Parthenon in Athens in the early 1800s.

United Kingdom Parliamentary statements or discussions of the Marbles: Lords 19 May 1997, Commons 1 June 1998, Commons 22 November 1999, Lords 15 May 2000, Commons 7 February 2002, Commons 30 June 2003 and Commons 3 March 2004.

Parthenon frieze

Parthenon horse

A summary of the key arguments / points on both sides of the Parthenon Marbles debate (Elginism) (February 2009)

Argument for and against the return of the marbles

British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles

British Museum homepage

Deep frieze (The Age) (May 2003)

Dr. J's Illustrated Parthenon

Elgin Marbles (Wikipedia)

Elgin marbles campaign launches (BBC News) (January 2004)

Elgin Marbles 'should be shared' with Greece (Guardian) (January 2002)

Elgin, the British Museum and Greek claims for restitution (Ancient Emporium) (January 2010)

Elginism (blog)

Italian loan puts marbles pressure on British Museum (December 2002)

Italy returns Parthenon fragment (September 2008)

Le retour des marbres du Parth�non � Ath�nes: un acte de culture et de justice

Lord Elgin’s great great great grandson on the Marbles (Elginism) (January 2009)

Marbles exhibition opens in London (BBC News) (October 2003)

Marbles Reunited

New Acropolis Museum means a new excuse will be needed by the British Museum (Elginism) (February 2009)

Oxford Union accused of bias over marble debate by Polly Curtis (Guardian) (May 2004)

Pericles, Pheidias And The Parthenon

Should the Elgin Marbles be Returned to Athens? by Sean Gabb (Free Life Commentary) (January 2003)

The Acropolis, the Parthenon, Elgin and the marbles (August 2000)

The Elgin Marbles are staying put in London (Times) (January 2002) (also here)

The Law and Ethics Deriving from the Parthenon Marbles Case by Irini A Stamatoudi

The Parthenon frieze

The Parthenon marbles (also here and here)

The Parthenon Sculptures (British Museum)

The Senate Debate over the Parthenon Marbles (Hellenic Community of Ottawa)

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