The latest in a series of publications on art and the law, the Art and Heritage Law Report: Ivory 2020 is written by Olivia Franklin, edited by Kate Fitz Gibbon, and published by the Committee for Cultural Policy. This in-depth report is designed to facilitate the work of lawyers and law students, environmentalists and preservationists, art collectors, art dealers, collecting museums and the interested public.
Poaching of African elephants for raw ivory, amounting to nearly 100 each day, has lead a number of legislatures to tighten restrictions on the sale of elephant ivory in recent years. Despite arguments by the art trade that antique and ancient works of art should be exempted, and the trade in modern and raw ivory prohibited in order to protect elephant populations, many laws now ban trade in ivory altogether.
The report summarizes and analyzes current and pending US, UK and EU Laws and regulations on trade in elephant ivory from Africa and Asia. The report provides an overview on the international framework and the restrictions on commercial use of ivory, from ancient to antique and modern, in order to provide guidance on what can and cannot be imported, exported, sold, donated or inherited.
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