Rubin Redux: Rights Balancing in Cultural Heritage Litigation
Article from: TDM 5 (2013), in Art and Heritage Disputes in International and Comparative Law
Introduction
One of the more interesting disputes to arise in the United States in recent years is the Rubin litigation, which involves several judgment creditors who, having won a default judgment against Iran for injuries relating to a terrorist attack in 1997, attempted to satisfy that judgment by attaching cultural antiquities in several US-based museums. These disputes have proven somewhat complicated as a result of the intricacies of the US Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) and the unusual nature of the judgment debtor's non-participation in the underlying default judgment and ensuing ...