The Cassirer Family’s Ongoing Legal Battle to Recover Nazi-Looted Art

The Institute for Intellectual Property Law and Market Law (IFIM) invites you to a seminar with Prof. Carlos M. Vázquez on The Cassirer Family’s Ongoing Legal Battle to Recover Nazi-Looted Art.

Seminar

Date:

Thursday 25 September 2025

Time:

12.00 – 13.30

Location:

SCCL, Universitetsvägen 10C, Library Building, 6th floor, large conference room

Join us for a talk on one of the most prominent art restitution cases to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Vázquez will recount the Cassirer family’s decades-long effort to recover a Pissarro painting stolen by the Nazis and now held by a Spanish state museum. Vázquez has participated in the case as an expert on issues of Public International Law and as a commentator on issues of Private International Law. He will offer insights into the case’s complex path through the U.S. federal courts, the public international law issues it raised, and the difficult questions of applicable law that shaped the litigation.

This talk will appeal to anyone interested in cultural heritage, international law, and the pursuit of justice across borders.

Bio: Carlos M. Vázquez is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law at Georgetown University, where he teaches Public International Law, Conflict of Laws (Private International Law), Foreign Relations Law, and Federal Courts and the Federal System, among other courses. His scholarship has been published in the American Journal of International Law, the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, and numerous other legal journals. He has been a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School and Harvard Law School. He has served as a Member of the U.N. Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Inter-American Juridical Committee.

 

Registration

Registration by email (lydia.lundstedt@juridicum.su.se) by 22 September at the latest. Please indicate if you would like a sandwich and whether you have any dietary restrictions. N.B. the seminar is in-person only.

Welcome!