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Dr. Patrick J. O'Keefe is a specialist in the law and procedures for recovery of looted heritage, and has advised international organizations, governments and private parties. He was consultant to the Council of Europe for the Resolution on Looted Jewish Cultural Property and to authorities in Lithuania for the Vilnius International Forum on Holocaust-Era Looted Cultural Assets. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, he is a member of many international expert bodies. Among his publications are: National Legal Control of Illicit Traffic in Cultural Property (Paris, UNESCO Doc. CLT/83/WS-16, 1983) pp.141 (with L.V. Prott); Handbook of National Regulations Concerning the Export of Cultural Property (UNESCO, Paris, 1988 - UNESCO Doc. CC.88/WS/27) (with L.V. Prott) xiii+239; Law and the Cultural Heritage: Volume III: Movement (Butterworths, London, 1989) (with L.V. Prott) xlix+1049; Feasibility of an International Code of Ethics for Dealers in Cultural Property for the Purpose of More Effective Control of Illicit Traffic in Cultural Property report presented as a working paper to the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to Its Countries of Origin or Its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation, Paris, May 1991 pp. 71; Trade in Antiquities: Reducing Destruction and Theft (UNESCO Publishing, Archetype; Paris, London; 1997) 134; "Codes of Ethics and the Art Trade" in Francioni, F.; Del Vecchio, A.; De Caterini, P. (eds.) Protezione internazionale del patrimonio culturale: interessi nazionali e difesa del patrimonio comune della cultura (Giuffrč Editore, Milan, 2000) 141-154; "The Draft Resolution on Looted Jewish Cultural Property Produced by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe" (1999) 4 Art Antiquity and Law 313-322, Commentary on the UNESCO 1970 Convention on Illicit Traffic (Institute of Art and Law, Leicester, 2000) pp.171 (translated into Chinese and to be translated into Russian); "Vilnius International Forum on Holocaust-Era Looted Cultural Assets, Vilnius, Lithuania (October 3-5, 2000)" (2001) 10 International Journal of Cultural Property 127-133; "European Developments in the Return of Looted Cultural Heritage" paper presented at conference "Die eigene Geschichte", Hamburg, 20-22.
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