Explore legal frameworks governing the ownership of antiquities, cultural heritage, shipwrecks, and ancient artifacts.
On a diving trip, you find and recover a treasure chest in the wreckage of an ancient ship. Does the playground doctrine of “finders, keepers,” apply, or is legal title to your “booty” governed by international or domestic law.
In the latest installment of this popular series, Peter Afrasiabi reviews the laws that apply to the recovery of antiquities, including coins, artifacts, artwork, and even human remains.
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Founding Partner at One, LLP
Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
