Volume I begins with a basic introduction into the general topic, in order to present the handbook's scope and implications and to specify the various situations where it is applicable in practice. Then all aspects of illegal trafficking of cultural goods are discussed from a de facto and de jure perspective: cultural theft, illegal export of valuable cultural goods belonging to the respective national heritage, looted art, cultural flight assets, stolen art and 'degenerate' art, illegal nationalization of art works and colonial cultural goods transfers.

Das umfassende Nachschlagewerk fur alle Fragen im Kulturguterschutz- und Kunstrestitutionsrecht. Konzipiert fur die Praxis, bietet das Werk Antworten bei der taglichen Arbeit fur alle im Kunstmarkt Beteiligten rund um die Themen:

• Kunstdiebstahl,
  
• Schutz und Schmuggel nationalen Kulturbesitzes,
  
• illegaler Antikenhandel,
  
• wahrend der nationalsozialistischen Unrechtsherrschaft entzogene Raub- und Beutekunst sowie entartete Kunst,
  
• nach Russland und in die Staaten der ehemaligen Sowjetunion verlagerte Trophaenkunst,
  
• wahrend der...

volume 5 is dedicated to the intergovernmental integration and international legal relationships within the law concerning the protection of cultural goods and art restitution and thereby, serves as a supplement to the civil and public law (i.e. national) commentaries presented in the previous volumes. To aid the settlement of restitution and repatriation claims, the differences in the law concerning the protection of cultural goods during wartime and peacetime are addressed and - according to the generally recognized sources of law - the international and European laws on the protection of...

the first section completes the previous volumes by addressing the significant ways and means available under criminal law, which are applied in the daily practice of the protection of cultural goods and art restitution, from national and international perspectives. The response options to illegal art trading available under criminal law are also considered starting from the point at which the state attorney or police are notified up to the securing of the object and the return of the illegally confiscated cultural goods to the rightful owners. The series is concluded with a "general...