Jennifer Kreder

Jennifer Kreder - Chase College of Law

Assoc. Dean for Faculty Development

Associate 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."

  • Education

  • BA Political Science, The University of Florida
  • JD, Georgetown University Law Center

  • Courses Taught

  • Art Law
  • Cultural Property Law
  • Civil Procedure I
  • Civil Procedure II
  • Legal Analysis & Problem Solving
  • Property I
  • Property II
  • Remedies

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 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.

Professor Kreder is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center. She previously taught at Stetson University College of Law, including in its study abroad program in Estonia, and in the Gonzaga University School of Law Florence, Italy program. Professor Kreder 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 has published extensively, including in legal journals at Harvard, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Georgetown, University of Southern California, Brooklyn, Southern Methodist University, Miami, Oregon, NKU-Chase, University of Melbourne, Australia, and the Institute of Art and Law in the United Kingdom, as well as the American Journal of Legal History, the World Arbitration and Mediation Review, and newsletters published through the American Bar Association, International Bar Association and University of Heidelberg, Germany. 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.

Professor Kreder often engages in pro bono and volunteer work. For example, in 2009 she participated in a meeting at United States Department of State hosted by Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues to prepare for Diplomatic Conference on Holocaust Era Assets to be held in Prague, June 26-30, 2009. Also in 2009, on behalf of well-known leaders of Jewish community organizations, Holocaust educators, artists and art historians, Professor Kreder filed a co-authored motion and amicus brief concerning conflicts law and Holocaust history in a critical Nazi-looted art appeal. She previously served as Co-Chair of the Art & Cultural Heritage Committee of the ABA Section of International Law and is active within the Lawyers Committee for Cultural Heritage Protection.

Professor Kreder has taught Agency/Partnerships/LLC's, Art Law, Civil Procedure, Cultural Property Law, Deposition Strategies, Legal Analysis and Problem Solving, Pretrial Litigation, Property and Remedies.

Latest Publications

The Revolution in U.S. Museums Concerning the Ethics of Acquiring Antiquities, 64 Miami L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2009)

Declaratory Judgment Actions in Nazi-Looted Art Disputes, American Bar Association, Section of International Law, Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee Newsletter __ (forthcoming August 2009)

The New Battleground of Museum Ethics and Holocaust Era Claims: Technicalities Trumping Justice or Responsible Stewardship for the Public Trust? , 88 Oregon L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2009)

Chapter 1: Cultural Property, Law and Ethics, in YEARBOOK OF CULTURAL PROPERTY LAW (2009)

Tribute to The Honorable Barefoot Sanders: Wisdom and Love of Life, 60 SMU L. Rev. __ (Forthcoming 2009) (In Memoriam Issue)

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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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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.