By Olga Symeonoglou

On April 25, the American Society of International Law and Georgetown University Law Center will host a one-day conference at Georgetown Law in honor of the 40^th anniversary of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. The conference program will feature a keynote by Chief Judge Diane P. Wood, U.S. Court of Appeals (7th Circuit), as well as panels on: the origins of the FSIA; sovereign immunity in international law and practice, enforcement, terrorism, and human rights; and the Argentine Debt Case.

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April 18, 2016

By Olga Symeonoglou

A fight has been slowly making its way through the U.S. court system over 44 artworks that were once part of the largest private art collection in pre-World War II Hungary. The case, de Csepel v. Republic of Hungary, was brought in 2010 by three heirs of Baron Mór Lipót Herzog, a Jewish-Hungarian banker and art collector whose collection included over 2,500 works when he died in 1934.

After Herzog’s death, his collection passed to his widow, who died in 1940. The collection was then divided among their three children, Erzsébet, István, and András. The plaintiffs are their heirs. David L. de Csepel, a U.S. citizen, is Herzog’s great-grandson and grandson of Erzsébet, and the other two plaintiffs are Herzog’s granddaughters, Angela Maria Herzog and Julia Alice Herzog, heirs of András who are Italian citizens.

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October 19, 2015