Stolen Art: Litigating Holocaust-Era Expropriation Claims

October 22, 2012
San Francisco, CA
The Green Room, San Francisco War Memorial Peforming Arts Center 401 Van Ness Avenue

The Federal Bar Association, Northern District of California Chapter
and
The Federal Bar Association Intellectual Property Section
Invite you to an evening of scholarship and socializing

Stolen Art: Litigating Holocaust-Era Expropriation Claims
By Raymond J. Dowd
October 22, 2012 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The Green Room, San Francisco War Memorial Peforming Arts Center
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco

Mr. Dowd’s presentation will be followed by a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception
Price per person:
$45 FBA Members
$55 Non-Members
1 Hour MCLE

The program will be appreciated by those with an interest in history, art or law, so invite your friends and colleagues.

Please contact Bernadette Dunne for further information.

Raymond J. Dowd is the Vice President for the Federal Bar Association in the Second Circuit, a partner of Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP in New York City, and author of The Copyright Litigation Handbook. Mr. Dowd is currently representing the heirs of Fritz Grunbaum, a Jewish cabaret performer murdered in the Dachau Concentration Camp. Mr. Grunbaum’s art collection resurfaced in Switzerland in 1956 under disputed circumstances. Mr. Dowd is now personally litigating in the first Holocaust-era art recovery trial in U.S. history. (For more background information see Bakalar v. Vavra, 619 F.3d 136 (2d Cir. 2010), Bakalar v. Vavra, 550 F. Supp. 2d 548 (S.D.N.Y. 2008), and Bakalar v. Vavra, No. 05 Civ. 3037(WHP), 237 F.R.D. 59, 2006 WL 2089884 (S.D.N.Y. July 28, 2006).)