An environmental justice nonprofit filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging “egregious” mishandling of the cleanup of radioactive contamination at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, one of the nation’s largest and most polluted Superfund sites, KQED, 6/28/24
Cleanup of San Francisco Superfund site has been badly mishandled, clinic lawsuit alleges
2025 Art, Finance, and Law Symposium at SFMOMA – May 8, 2025 | More Details Coming Soon
Clinic Students Work to Defend Library Patrons’ Right to Privacy
Berkeley Law, 5/31/2024
The Robbins Collection welcomes Mark Brustman as new Library Collections Assistant
We are delighted to welcome Mark Brustman as our new Library Collections Assistant. Since April, he has served as the point person for scholars working in the reading room and […]
Art Beyond Copyright Introduction
In their introduction to the Winter 2024 edition of Grey Room, editors Amy Adler and Noam Elcott argue that the incentives of copyright protection are meaningless in the context of visual art where “authenticity” is the measure of value and copies are essentially worthless.
Canvas, Issue 11
This month we highlight news of recovery of stolen artifacts, trends in the art market, the instability of the crypto world, artistic freedom, and more.
Utah Should Abolish All Juvenile Court Fees, Fines and Costs Says New Report from PAC National Partner Gault Center
The Gault Center, 05/15/2024
Trademark Law and the Contingent Art Object
UCLA Law Professor Xiyin Tang discusses the nexus between contemporary art on the one hand, and branding and trademark law on the other — a connection increasingly strengthened by the transformation of contemporary art into a kind of luxury good where the artist becomes the brand.
Canvas, Issue 10
This month we highlight news of artistic freedom and the courts, the illicit antiques trade, trends in the art market, artificial intelligence in museums, and more.
Robbins Fellow Spotlight: Francesco D’Urso
The Robbins Collection welcomed Francesco D’Urso as a Research Fellow from September to November of 2023. D’Urso comes to the Robbins Collection from Italy, where he is a researcher at […]