Law

Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Professor of Law

"Students at Chase inspire me. They work hard and expect to be challenged both to analyze legal doctrine and to develop the professional judgment necessary to think strategically. The most rewarding parts of my job are to help the students achieve their personal bests in the classroom, define their career goals and find the paths to satisfying lives after law school."

Profile

Prior to entering academia, Professor Jennifer Anglim Kreder was a Litigation Associate with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP, in New York, concentrating on Holocaust-era inter-governmental negotiation and property litigation issues, art disputes and class actions. She also was awarded for her work on behalf of Catholic nuns and others tortured and murdered during the Salvadoran civil war. Previously, she clerked for The Honorable Barefoot Sanders, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Prof. Kreder is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center. She received her Bachelor of Arts with High Honors in Political Science from the University of Florida and studied at Karl Marx University of Leipzig, Germany, as well as in Austria, Costa Rica and Mexico. She also has taught abroad.

Prof. Kreder has published extensively, including in legal journals at Harvard, Northwestern, Penn, Vanderbilt, Duke, Virginia, Georgetown, University of Southern California, Washington University, Brooklyn, Utah, Southern Methodist University, Miami, Oregon, NKU-Chase, University of Melbourne, Australia, and the Institute of Art & Law in the United Kingdom, as well as the American Journal of Legal History, the World Arbitration & Mediation Review, and other trade publications. She is the author of Chapter 1 in the 2009 Yearbook of Cultural Property Law. By invitation, she has given presentations about legal issues affecting the international art market in many domestic and foreign venues.

Prof. Kreder engages in pro bono and volunteer work in which students often participate. For example, she has filed amicus briefs on behalf of the American Jewish Congress, the Commission for Art Recovery, law professors dedicated to alternative dispute resolution, Holocaust educators, Jewish community leaders, artists and art historians concerning conflicts law and U.S. executive policy in Nazi-looted art appeals (and a petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court), as well as briefs regarding proper Act of State analysis in cases concerning art stolen during the Russian Revolution. She has participated in State Department efforts to create a Nazi-looted art commission and serves as Chair of the American Society of International Law's Cultural Heritage & the Arts Interest Group.

Public Service

Pro bono volunteer on matters related to art law. For example:

• Filed a motion and brief in case pending before Second Circuit. In February 2009 to appear on behalf of amici to correct errors in the trial court.
• Preparing comments for a June 2009 diplomatic conference in Prague about looted art and immoveable property never restituted after World War II.
• Consulted with attorney seeking restitution of watercolors painted by Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland July 2008.

Latest Publications

Understanding Guatemala's Cultural Heritage: Extending Protection to Colonial Art in the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Guatemala, 21 Duke J.l of Comp. & Int'l L. 321 (2011) (co-authored with Xavier Beteta)
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Museums in the Crosshairs: Unintended Consequences of the War on Terror, 10 Wash. U. Glob. Stud. L. Rev. 239 (2011) (co-authored with Kim DeGraaf)
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Review of Margaret M. Miles, Art as Plunder: The Ancient Origins of Debate about Cultural Property (Cambridge University Press, 2008), 50 AM. J. Legal Hist. 227-228 (2010)
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The Revolution in U.S. Museums Concerning the Ethics of Acquiring Antiquities, 64 Miami L. Rev. 997 (2010)
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Declaratory Judgment Actions in Nazi-Looted Art Disputes, A.B.A. Art & Cultural Heritage Law Newsl. __ (forthcoming)

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Latest Presentations

Claims to Art in Austrian Museums

Florida Bar Association Section of International Law, Vienna, Austria (2009)

The Rape of Europa
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana (2009)

In Hot Pursuit: Prosecution of Art Theft and Fraud (CLE)
Har Zion Temple & Gratz College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2009)

Pending Nazi Era Art Litigation
DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois (2009)

Participant: Looted Art, Preparation for Conference on Holocaust Era Assets (Prague, June 26-30, 2009).
Department of State, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, Washington, D.C. (2009)

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