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Imperialism, Art and Restitution
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521859298 |
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The issue of returning art and cultural property removed from explored or conquered lands by Americans and Europeans is an unresolved problem. This book is about the return, or not, of works of art and antiquity taken during the Age of Imperialism and now held in museums and private collections. Arguments put forth by the states seeking return or restitution for lost art treasures and meaningful cultural icons are pitted against conservator interests who maintain that these art treasures and cultural artifacts belong to all humanity and should be preserved in museums. In this volume, scholars and authorities on art, cultural property law and museum collections offer contrasting views on topics such as the Elgin Marbles, the return of the Nefertiti Bust and the problems and progress of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
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The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices
Elazar Barkan Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0801868076 |
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How do nations and aggrieved parties, in the wake of heinous crimes and horrible injustices, make amends in a positive way to acknowledge wrong-doings and redefine future interactions? How does the growing practice of making restitution restore a sense of morality and enhance prospects for world peace? Where has restitution worked and where has it not?
Since the end of World War II, the victims of historical injustices and crimes against humanity have increasingly turned to restitution, financial and otherwise, as a means of remedying past suffering. In The Guilt of Nations, Elazar Barkan offers a sweeping look at the idea of restitution and its impact on the concept of human rights and the practice of both national and international politics. Through in-depth explorations of reparation demands for a wide variety of past wrongs -- the Holocaust; Japanese enslavement of "comfort women" in Korea and the Philippines; the internment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor; German art in Russian museums and Nazi gold in Swiss banks; the oppression of indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. mainland, and Hawaii; and the enduring legacy of slavery and institutional racism among African Americans -- Barkan confronts the difficulties in determining victims and assigning blame in the aftermath of such events, understanding what might justly be restored through restitutions, and assessing how these morally and politically charged acknowledgments of guilt can redefine national histories and identities.
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An admirable effort, but not engaging.......2001-11-05
Callous disregard of the vistims.......2001-03-09
Not proven.......2000-07-07
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Problems in Remedies: Damages-Equity-Restitution (American Casebooks)
Dan B. Dobbs , and Kavanagh Manufacturer: West Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0314026193 |
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The problems embodied in this book differ from the usual academic presentation in several ways. First, students are not initially confronted with an authoritative statement of "law" but with facts and human problems. Second, except in the four introductory chapters, the problems are not organized to present an orderly sequence of remedies rules. Instead, they are organized around diverse factual settings, so the issues come to the student just as they come to lawyers in practicehelter-skelter. Requires students to work analytically, not in an organization dictated by the logic of a casebook.
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Cases And Materials on Equitable Remedies, Restitution And Damages (American Casebook Series)
Jean C. Love , Grant S. Nelson , and Candace S. Kovacic-Fleischer Manufacturer: West ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0314150749 Release Date: 2005-04-01 |
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The Seventh Edition of Equitable Remedies, Restitution and Damages continues to provide comprehensive coverage of the legal and equitable remedies that are available in actions for both public and private wrongs. Although the casebook is designed for a Remedies course (of any length), it is also suitable for a separate course in Equity, Injunctions, Restitution, or Damages. The first half of the casebook introduces students to injunctions, damages, restitution, and declaratory judgments, in that order. The second half of the casebook gives students an opportunity to consider these four types of relief as remedies in actions for tortious misconduct, breach of contract, and unjust enrichment. While this edition shares the same organizational plan as its predecessor, it has been substantially enriched by the addition of new cases and textual notes.
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Victim's Rights: The Biblical View of Civil Justice
Gary North Manufacturer: Institute for Christian Economics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0930464176 |
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An outstanding book! Exceptionally thought-provoking!.......2002-03-27
Why, for example, when a thief robs a victim, does the thief pay damages to the State rather than the person he robbed? Why does the victim of the crime often receive nothing for having been robbed (unless he receives it though the insurance he himself paid for)? Why do the fines from speeding tickets go into the general funds of the city or county in which the infraction occured, rather than go into a fund to pay for the injuries to other drivers and pedestrians who are hit by speeders? When the funds go to the city, doesn't this encourage the corruption of underposting the speed limit, speed traps and ticket quotas for traffic cops?
Who is the victim of crime, the person who was robbed, beaten up or the family members of the person who was murdered, or is the victim of crime the State? Who should receive restitution from the offender, the victim or the State? Under our present non-Biblical system, the State receives the compensation from the criminal, not the actual victim of crime. It doesn't make sense. And because of that, our society is becoming increasingly lawless over time, not law-abiding.
I most highly recommend this book to anybody who is interested in better understanding the Biblical view of one of the major social issues of our time. Regardless of whether or not you are a Christian, this book will have you thinking and reflecting deeply on the issues it brings up.
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Law of Remedies: Damages--Equity--Restitution (Hornbook Series Student Edition)
Dan B. Dobbs Manufacturer: West Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0314011234 |
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Authoritative text illustrates the possible applications of difficult rules, explains requirements, assesses arguments, and offers options in uncertain situations. Reviews equity and nonmonetary remedies, principles of damages, and restitution. Details harms to interests in tangible property, explores interference with economic rights, and discusses invasion of civil rights and dignitary interests. Addresses personal injury, fraud, and other unconscionable conduct. Also identifies mistakes in contracting and gift transactions, remedies for breach of contract, and unenforceable contracts.Customer Reviews:
BasicBook.......2003-01-15
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Blackstone's Statutes on Contract, Tort and Restitution 2006-2007 (Blackstone's Statute Book S.)
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0199288178 |
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Designed specifically for students, Blackstone's Statutes lead the market in providing a carefully selected, regularly updated, and well sourced collection of legislation for the core subjects and major options offered on the law syllabus. Each title is ideal for use throughout the course and in exams providing the student with: - Unparalleled coverage - Unannotated primary and secondary legislation - Detailed indexing and tables of content to aid quick and efficient research - Up-to-date and relevant material - Statutes Series Online Resource Centre providing guidance on using a statutes book
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Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts
Michael Bazyler Manufacturer: NYU Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0814799043 Release Date: 2005-04-01 |
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"Bazyler has written an indispensable history of Holocaust restitution as litigated in US courts. . . . Essential."
CHOICE
Any activist or scholar interested in any restitution movement should read this book.
Journal of Genocide Research
"Bazyler rightly attacks the commission as an unmitigated disaster and . . . correctly describes the situation as a disgrace."
Financial Times Magazine
"Holocaust Justice tells the complete story of the legal campaign to win restitution for Hitler's victims and thus deserves a large reading audience. . . . The Book should remain the standard work on the subject for some time to come."
New Jersey Jewish News
"Bazyler . . . gives details of nationwide litigation in which courts rejected the legal basis for such claims. His book is enlightening and provocative."
Los Angeles Times
"Michael Bazyler has written an incisive and compelling history of the effort to use law to gain a measure of justice for victims of the Holocaust. Not only is the book an indispensable chronicle of the Holocaust litigation; it is a probing inquiry into the wisdom and morality of the effort."
Burt Neuborne, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, NYU Law School, Lead Settlement Counsel, in Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation
By patiently walking us through the vast and complex labyrinth of litigation and legislation that focused on securing reparations and restitution, Bazyler shows us that the loss of property caused by the bureaucratic workings of banks, corporations, and insurance companies was even more difficult to prove in court than the loss of life caused by no less bureaucratic workings of the concentration camps.
Washington Post
"In this lucid and compelling book, Bazyler documents the fight for restitution, its successes, and its failures."
Booklist
"...A definitive analytical study of how the American courts and system of justice were used to address the mass-scale theft initiated by the Holocaust."
Wisconsin Bookwatch
"Bazyler has produced a masterful study of the tragedy and triumphs of the Holocaust, and a look at the American legal system as its most effective and redemptive. The book is a "must read."
International Journal of Legal Information
A masterly study of the search for justice against long odds. Its analysis is compelling, its importance immense. It is also a fascinating read.
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of Hitler's Willing Executioners and A Moral Reckoning
An indispensable guide to the complex and controversial struggle for justice in the aftermath of the Holocaust, traversing the history of the battle for restitution in America's courts. Bazyler's understanding is authoritative and his learning deep. I thought I knew all the intricacies of the litigation, all the ins and outs of the controversy until I read this book and learned that there was so much more to know. He has done a masterful job of clarifying and elucidating. This work must be studied by anyone interested in the issue. It is a model of fairness.
Michael Berenbaum, Sigi Ziering Institute, The University of Judaism
This book should be read by everyone interested in how some measure of justice was obtained for victims of the Holocaust and about how issues of historical injustice should be addressed by the international community.
Paul Hoffman, Chair, Amnesty International
An incisive work of legal history and an invaluable guide to the litigation involving Holocaust-era assets. Bazyler offers an elegant and up-to-date study that will prove indispensable for those interested in restitution law, the Holocaust, and the issue of historical injustice."
Jonathan Petropoulos former Research Director, Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States.
Michael Bazyler brings the passion of a child of Holocaust survivors and the tenacious investigative skills of a lawyer in addressing the complexities of Holocaust restitution. The result is courageous, provocative, and sobering.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Simon Wiesenthal Center
". . . is valuable as a play-by-play of litigation on the Swiss banks cases, slave labor, Nazi-looted art and Holocaust-era insurance policies."
Jewish Journal
"The restitution cases he cites in support of his thesis are thoroughly researched and Professor Bazyler's argument is provocative."
The Art Newspaper
"Bazyler writes intelligently and often bends over backward to give the other side fair representation. But there is no doubt where he stands."
Hadassah Magazine
The Holocaust was not only the greatest murder in history; it was also the greatest theft. Historians estimate that the Nazis stole roughly $230 billion to $320 billion in assets (figured in today's dollars), from the Jews of Europe. Since the revelations concerning the wartime activities of the Swiss banks first broke in the late 1990s, an ever-widening circle of complicity and wrongdoing against Jews and other victims has emerged in the course of lawsuits waged by American lawyers. These suits involved German corporations, French and Austrian banks, European insurance companies, and double thefts of artfirst by the Nazis, and then by museums and private collectors refusing to give them up. All of these injustices have come to light thanks to the American legal system.
Holocaust Justice is the first book to tell the complete story of the legal campaign, conducted mainly on American soil, to address these injustices. Michael Bazyler, a legal scholar specializing in human rights and international law, takes an in-depth look at the series of lawsuits that gave rise to a coherent campaign to right historical wrongs. Diplomacy, individual pleas for justice by Holocaust survivors and various Jewish organizations for the last fifty years, and even suits in foreign courts, had not worked. It was only with the intervention of the American courts that elderly Holocaust survivors and millions of other wartime victims throughout the world were awarded compensation, and equally important, acknowledgment of the crimes committed against them.
The unique features of the American system of justicewhich allowed it to handle claims that originated over fifty years ago and in another part of the worldmade it the only forum in the world where Holocaust claims could be heard. Without the lawsuits brought by American lawyers, Bazyler asserts, the claims of the elderly survivors and their heirs would continue to be ignored.
For the first time in history, European and even American corporations are now being forced to pay restitution for war crimes totaling billions of dollars to Holocaust survivors and other victims. Bazyler deftly tells the unfolding stories: the Swiss banks' attempt to hide dormant bank accounts belonging to Holocaust survivors or heirs of those who perished in the war; German private companies that used slave laborers during World War IIincluding American subsidiaries in Germany; Italian, Swiss and German insurance companies that refused to pay on prewar policies; and the legal wrangle going on today in American courts over art looted by the Nazis in wartime Europe. He describes both the human and legal dramas involved in the struggle for restitution, bringing the often-forgotten voices of Holocaust survivors to the forefront. He also addresses the controversial legal and moral issues over Holocaust restitution and the ethical debates over the distribution of funds.
With an eye to the future, Bazyler discusses the enduring legacy of Holocaust restitution litigation, which is already being used as a model for obtaining justice for historical wrongs on both the domestic and international stage.
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The story of the effort to win compensation for the Theft of the Property of the Jews of Europe.......2006-11-29
An original and core addition to Holocaust Studies reference.......2003-09-18
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New Perspectives on Property Law: Obligations and Restitution
Hudson et al Manufacturer: Routledge Cavendish ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1859418422 |
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Dobbs Law of Remedies: Damages-Equity-Restitution, Vol. 1 (Practitioner Treatise) (Practitioner Treatise Series)
Dan B. Dobbs Manufacturer: West ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0314009132 |
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Volume One of Three Volume Set. Provides expert coverage and explanation of American law concerning remedies.More than a rulebook, this text discusses the remedies that are available in a particular fact setting. Illustrates possible applications of difficult rules, explains proof requirements, assesses arguments and offers options in uncertain situations. Coverage includes the particulars of damages, restitution and equitable relief, and remedial schemes for harms to tangible property. Also covers economic interests, intangible personal property, and compensatory and non-compensatory damages. Discusses remedies for economic torts, personal injury, breach of contract, and more.
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