What are the typical red-flag scenarios in relation to restitution and repatriation claims? How ought these be dealt with and how are they actually being dealt with by institutions, museums, private collectors, dealers, galleries and auction houses? What pressures have such claims come under in an age where there is little exchange of information between the entrenched echo chambers of post-truth opinion and a world in which information needs to be shortened to fit into a social media post?

This book provides an insight into these and related topics from the viewpoints of legal practitioners, provenance researchers, historians and academics, as well as art market representatives from various parts of the world where such issues are being looked at seriously, for example the UK, the Americas, and Europe. The expert contributors come from England and Wales, the US, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary and Poland. The book provides a reference source for all those interested in learning more about an area where history, politics, diplomacy, the law, morality and culture collide, where precedent is fresh, untested or non-existent: at the cutting edge of seeking to 'deal with the past', healing sometimes ancient wounds and attempting to find lasting compromises as to the possession and ownership of the treasures of civilisation that, in some cases, have been illicitly scattered across the world.