Professor Patty Gerstenblith presents “Protecting Cultural Heritage During Armed Conflict”

Join us on March 27th for appetizers and cocktails at the Union League Club when Professor Patty Gerstenblith presents “Protecting Cultural Heritage During Armed Conflict.”

Patty Gerstenblith, PhD, JD, DHL is Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University and Director of its Center for Art, Museum and Cultural Heritage Law. President Clinton and President Obama appointed her as a Member and then Chair of the President’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee in the Department of State. Since 2020, she has served as President of the Board of Directors of the US Committee of the Blue Shield and Chair of the Blue Shield International Working Group on Trafficking of Cultural Objects. Her book, Cultural Objects and Reparative Justice: A Legal and Historical Analysis, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. The fourth edition of her casebook, Art, Cultural Heritage and the Law, was published in 2019. She was the Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College in 2021 and the Archaeological Institute of America’s Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer for the 2023-24 academic year. Gerstenblith received her A.B. degree in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College, her Ph.D. in Art History and Anthropology from Harvard University, and J.D. from Northwestern University. Before joining the DePaul faculty, she clerked for the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

We look forward to seeing you on March 27, 2025!

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