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The Omnibus Public Lands Management Act Passes
Congress and the Senate have approved the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act, which protects 2 million acres of wilderness in nine states and a thousand miles of rivers. This increases the wild and s… more →
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The Omnibus Public Lands Management Act Passes
Kimberly Alderman wrote 9 months ago: Congress and the Senate have approved the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act, which protects 2 mill … more →
Elkins on Commodification of Antiquities
Kimberly Alderman wrote 9 months ago: Nathan Elkins has posted to his Numismatics and Archaeology blog “Commodification of Antiquiti … more →
Raptor-Thieving Paleontologist Pleads Guilty to State Charges
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Kimberly Alderman wrote 9 months ago: A month ago I reported on paleontologist Nathan Murphy’s snatching of a raptor, then concealin … more →
New Bill May Give Montana Tribes Increased Control Over Cultural Property
Kimberly Alderman wrote 9 months ago: Senate Bill 488, sponsored by Dem. Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy of the Chippewa-Cree tribe, was supported … more →
Chinese Leper's Hospital Seeks UNESCO World Heritage Status
Kimberly Alderman wrote 9 months ago: The Losheng Sanatorium was constructed in the 1930s during the Japanese colonial period. It has sinc … more →
Proposed Bill May Bring Protection for Cultural Resources on New Mexico State Lands
Kimberly Alderman wrote 9 months ago: Freelance writer and former archaeologist Laura Paskus has written an excellent article for the Sant … more →
Potential Seizure of Persian Tablets Ruffles Feathers
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Kimberly Alderman wrote 10 months ago: A DC Court judge awarded victims of a suicide bombing in Jerusalem $412 million dollars in their sui … more →
Legal Issues in Museum Administration & Free MP3 on Collecting on Public Lands
Kimberly Alderman wrote 10 months ago: The Smithsonian Institution and the American Association of Museums are cosponsoring an ALA-ABA conf … more →
The Economic Crisis Hits Cultural Property Disposition
Kimberly Alderman wrote 10 months ago: The federal government of Canada has denied the Museum of Northern British Columbia the funds to pur … more →
Seeking Feedback on My Working Paper
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Kimberly Alderman wrote 10 months ago: I am publishing an article in the Idaho Law Review in their symposium edition on New Directions for … more →
Cuno Should Distinguish Between People and Nations
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Kimberly Alderman wrote 10 months ago: Museum director James Cuno, the author of Who Owns Antiquity?, has posted to the Princeton Universit … more →
The Universal Museum Struggles for Air
Kimberly Alderman wrote 10 months ago: Tom Flynn has commented on British Museum director Neil MacGregor’s recent lecture on the ency … more →
Aye Captain, Thar's the HMS Victory!
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Kimberly Alderman wrote 10 months ago: Canon from HMS Victory, unintended courtesy of AP. I apologize for the pirate talk, but those busy b … more →
Si'l vous plait, can we have our boat back?
Kimberly Alderman wrote 11 months ago: France filed a claim to the 17th-century shipwreck, the Griffon, in U.S. District Court in Grand Rap … more →
Internship Opportunities in Cultural Property Law
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Kimberly Alderman wrote 11 months ago: The Lawyers Committee for Cultural Heritage and Preservation (LCCHP) has put up its database of inte … more →
Nothing legal today, folks. Keep on walking...
Kimberly Alderman wrote 11 months ago: Yesterday, I commented to my e-friend and archaeologist K. Kris Hirst that I wanted to see an articl … more →
Raptor With Multiple Personalities Source of Controversy
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Kimberly Alderman wrote 11 months ago: Julieraptor, Sid Vicious, Kleptoraptor… Who was the raptor really? A well-reknowned hobby pale … more →
More to Mughal Than Meets the Eye
Kimberly Alderman wrote 11 months ago: In keeping with our recent theme of manuscript theft, an Australian woman was caught trying to smugg … more →
Manuscript theft more profitable, less risky than car theft.
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Kimberly Alderman wrote 11 months ago: Farhad Hakimzadeh, London’s millionaire book thief reported on in the CPAL bookworm post, has … more →
