Today's archaeologists and law practitioners must have an increased awareness of legal issues pertaining to historic preservation and cultural resource management (CRM). Archaeological sites and finds are non-renewable resources inciting numerous legal debates based upon claims of legitimacy and ownership. In this edited volume of original articles, law professionals and legal scholars offer their perspectives on current debates for the heritage community, giving multiple viewpoints and injecting historical depth to contemporary legal controversies. The contributions focus on three key issues: Enforcement and Preservation; International Issues; and Repatriation—in which insights are given on topics such as underwater cultural heritage, global trade and export, illegal trafficking of antiquities, domestic law enforcement, and indigenous people's legal rights. Famous cases such as the Elgin Marbles and the Kennewick Man, as well as laws such as NAGPRA and McClain doctrine are discussed at length. This book will be an indispensable resource to CRM practitioners, cultural property attorneys, archaeologists, community heritage groups, tribes, museums and galleries, or anyone interested in the preservation of American and global cultural heritage.

Contributions by: Christopher A. Amato, former Deputy Chief of the Environmental Protection Bureau in the New York State Office o, Professor of Law at Emory University / Neil Brodie, archaeologist, Coordinator of the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre at the McDonald Institute for Archa, Professor of Law at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law / Paula J, Deputy General Counsel to theUnited States Sentencing Commission in Washington D.C. / Patt, Professor of Law at the DePaul Univeristy College of Law / Lynne G. Goldstein, Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State Univeristy / Sherry Hutt, cultural property consultant / Keith W. Kintigh, Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University / William A. Lovis, Curator, Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State Univeristy / Robert H. McLaughlin, attorney / Marilyn Phelan, Professor of Law at Texas Tech University School of Law / Colin Renfrew, Professor of Archaeology, Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in the University of Cam, attorney / Lynne Sebastian, Director of Historic Preservation Prog