Anne-Marie Carstens Author & Editor

Anne-Marie Carstens is a Researcher at Georgetown University Law Center, where her research focuses on corollaries in international and domestic law for both cultural heritage and intellectual property protection. She previously served as Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown Law and taught in Washington and London in the fields of international cultural heritage law, property law, and copyright and international intellectual property law. She holds a DPhil in Law from Oxford University, where her research focused on state obligations to protect cultural property, as well as a JD degree from Georgetown University. Elizabeth Varner is Museum Director of the US National Coast Guard Museum, an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law where she teaches Art, Museum and Cultural Heritage Law as well as Entertainment Law, and a neutral (arbitration and mediation). She was formerly executive director of two museums and has previously worked for government agencies assisting with guiding the management and use of over 200 million cultural and scientific objects, working with international and public-private partnership issues, developing policies, addressing legal issues, protecting cultural property, and investigating, prosecuting, and repatriating cultural property. She has a MA from the Smithsonian-Corcoran College of Art + Design and a JD from Tulane University School of Law.