LALIVE Merryman Fellowship
LALIVE co-sponsors the annual Pierre Lalive and John Henry Merryman Fellowship in Art and Cultural Heritage Law which honours our co-founder, the late Professor Pierre Lalive’s legacy as a leading academic in art law. This is done in partnership with the Art Law Centre of the University of Geneva and the International Cultural Property Society.
The aim of the Fellowship is to support the work of emerging scholars active in the field of international cultural heritage law and related fields such as art law and museum law. It is awarded each year to a scholar aged under 40 for the best article published in the International Journal of Cultural Property Law (published by Cambridge University Press).
The awardee is invited to conduct a research stay of two to four weeks at the Art Law Centre of the University of Geneva, with the opportunity to carry out further publishable research.
Further information can be found here.
- The 2023 Fellowship was awarded to Luke McDonagh, from London, for his article: « Exploring “ownership” of Irish traditional dance music: Heritage or property ? »
- The 2022 Fellowship was awarded to Adnan Almohamad from Syria, for his article: “The destruction and looting of cultural heritage sites by Isis in Syria: The case of Manbij and its countryside”.
- The 2021 Fellowship was awarded to Tamás Szabados, from Budapest, for his article: “In Search of the Holy Grail of the Conflict of Laws of Cultural Property”;
- The 2020 Fellowship was awarded to Luke Tattersall, from London, for his article: “Derailing State Immunity: A Broad-Brush Approach to Jurisdiction under Claims for the Expropriation of Cultural Property“;
- The 2019 Fellowship was awarded to Tabitha Oost, from Amsterdam, for her article: “Restitution Policies on Nazi-Looted Art in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom: A Change from a Legal to a Moral Paradigm?“.
