Research

Below I have included the links to my scholarly research. These pieces are all accepted or published works, which I've made free to download via SSRN. I'm always happy to promote the work of others writing about cultural heritage, at any level.

I also strongly encourage writers in the area to make their work accessible to as wide an audience as possible. The interdisciplinary nature of cultural heritage scholarship can make it difficult to find all of the good writing being done in this area.

Contact me (derek.fincahm "at" gmail.com) if you have a manuscript you would like the readers of this blog to see and I'll highlight it, like I've done here with other articles and essays.

My writing:

• The Distinctiveness of Property and Heritage, 115 Penn State L. Rev (2011)
• Deaccession of Art and the Public Trust Journal of Art, Antiquity & Law, Vol. 16, Issue 2, pp. 1-37, (July 2011)
• Towards a Rigorous Standard for the Good Faith Acquisition of Antiquities, 37 SYRACUSE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND COMMERCE (2010)
• The Fundamental Importance of Archaeological Context, in Art and Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World, pp 1-12 (2009)
• How Adopting the Lex Originis Rule Can Impede the Flow of Illicit Cultural Property, 32, COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF LAW & THE ARTS 111 (2008)
• A Coordinated Legal and Policy Approach to Undiscovered Antiquities: Adapting the Cultural Heritage Policy of England and Wales to Other Nations of Origin, 15 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL PROPERTY 347 (2008)
• Rejecting Renvoi for Movable Cultural Property: The Islamic Republic of Iran v. Denyse Berend, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL PROPERTY111-120 (2007)
• Why U.S. Federal Criminal Penalties for Dealing in Illicit Cultural Property are Ineffective, and a Pragmatic Alternative, 25 CARDOZO ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL (2007)