Program presented by the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, in collaboration with the Penn Cultural Heritage Center, the Penn Museum, and The Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation.

PROGRAM:

• reviews the international and national legal framework of cultural heritage law;
• explores conflicting views of the policies that shape preservation of the past;
• highlights current controversies in cultural heritage law; and
• analyzes the legal and ethical issues for professionals practicing in the field.
  

Over lunch, faculty and participants will consider how the international debate over cultural heritage is reflected in Philadelphia's efforts to preserve its City treasures.

Interactive format, 3 substantive credits and 1 ethics credit for attorneys. Enrollment is open to both attorneys and arts and culture professionals.

DISTINGUISHED PRESENTERS INCLUDE:

• Patty Gerstenblith
  Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law, & Director of DePaul's program in art and cultural heritage law;
  Co-Chair of the ABA's International Cultural Property Committee
  President & Chair, Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation;
  Author of Cultural Heritage, Art and the Law;
  
• Richard Leventhal, Ph.D
  internationally recognized scholar in Mesoamerican studies;
  Faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania
  Curator at the Museum and responsible for the Museum's recently launched Center for Cultural Heritage
  
• Ildiko P. DeAngelis
  Director of the Graduate program in Museum Studies, George Washington University;
  Former Assistant General Counsel at the Smithsonian Institute
  

WHEN:
9:00 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
lunch included

WHERE:
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology

REGISTRATION FEE:

• $189.00 for attorneys
• $125 for arts and culture professionals and interested others.

• Visit: http://www.pvla.org
• Please call PVLA: (215)545-3385
• Or email: kcarignan@pvla.org
  
• Course Planner, Sharon M. Erwin, Esquire