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75 B.U. L. Rev. 559 (1995)
Indentity and Cultural Property: The Protection of Cultural Property in the United States

handle is hein.journals/bulr75 and id is 573 raw text is: ARTICLES IDENTITY AND CULTURAL PROPERTY: THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY IN THE UNITED STATES PATrY GERSTENBLITH * INTRODUCTION ................................................... 560 I. DEFINITION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY ....................... 567 II. HISTORY OF THE TREATMENT OF OUR CULTURAL PA ST ......................................................... 572 III. CURRENT LEGAL PROTECITON OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES IN THE UNITED STATES ............. 586 A. Archaeological Finds on Land ........................... 587 1. The Common Law of Finds .......................... 587 2. Statutory Treatment .................................. 595 B. The Law Governing Submerged Archaeological R esources ................................................ 601 1. Traditional Maritime Salvage Law .................... 602 a. A bandonm ent ..................................... 603 b. Law of Finds ..................................... 604 c. Law of Salvage ................................... 606 2. Federal Legislation ................................... 610 3. State Legislation ..................................... 619 C. Human Burials and Associated Native American Archaeological M aterials ................................. 622 1. Federal Legislation ................................... 625 2. State Legislation ..................................... 630 a. Newly Discovered Human Graves ................. 631 b. Restitution of Human Remains .................... 638 IV. MODEL FOR THE UNIFORM PROTECTION AND TREATMENT OF CULTURAL PROPERTY .................................... 641 * Professor, DePaul University College of Law; A.B., Bryn Mawr College; Ph.D., Harvard University; J.D., Northwestern University School of Law. I wish to thank Professors John Henry Merryman, Roberta Kwall, Helen Schwartzman, and Stephen Siegel for their insightful comments. I want to acknowledge the support of the DePaul University Competitive Research Leave Program and of the College of Law Summer Research Grant Program. I also wish to thank Depak Sathy, Simon Halfin, David Navetta, and Jo Wilson for their assistance in preparing this Article.

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