Erin Thompson on "Official Fakes" & the Antiquities Market

In this episode, Erin L. Thompson, Associate Professor of Art Crime at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, discusses her important and amusing article "'Official Fakes: The Consequences of Governmental Treatment of Forged Antiquities as Genuine during Seizures, Prosecutions, and Repatriations." Thompson is one of the foremost American experts on art crime. In this article, she discusses the (often inadvertent) trade in "official fakes" or counterfeit antiquities. Among other things, she explains how they make it more difficult to police the illicit trade in real antiquities. You can read Thompson's other work on art and antiquities on her SSRN page. And you can reach her on twitter @artcrimeprof.

Keywords: forgery, comparative law, international law, criminal law, art law, cultural heritage

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