Stephen K Urice Author

John Henry Merryman (1920–2015) was an esteemed Stanford Law School Professor and founder of the field now known as Art Law. Professor Merryman first taught Art Law at Stanford in the early 1970s and wrote widely on artists' rights and cultural property issues before his death in 2015. Stephen K. Urice is Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law. A former archaeologist and attorney, he earned a Ph.D. in art history and J.D. at Harvard University. Professor Urice writes and lectures internationally on art, museum, and cultural property law. Simon J. Frankel is a Judge on the Superior Court of California in San Francisco and teaches Art and the Law at Stanford Law School. He has spoken and published widely on issues concerning art and law. Before becoming a judge, he practiced law in San Francisco for twenty-eight years.