Irina Tarsis, JD
Education
BS, University of Virginia
MA, Harvard University
JD, Yeshiva University
Founder and director of Center for Art Law, Irina Tarsis is an art historian, attorney, and an author of multiple articles on the subject of restitution, provenance research, book history, and copyright issues.
With degrees in International Business, Art History and Law, in her practice Tarsis focuses on ownership disputes surrounding tangible and intangible property.
Research Interests
due diligence in the art market; dispute resolution methods; organizational behavior and nonprofit governance; artists’ rights; copyright and fair use
Selected Publications
"Sam Salz (1894-1981): An Art Dealer’s Journey from Poland to France to the United States." Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market 1850-1930. Spring 2024.
"Ukraine on My Mind: Cultural Heritage and the Current Armed Conflict." 33 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 2023.
Atreya Mathur, Dean Nicyper and Irina Tarsis, "10 and 56 Years Later: New York Arts and Cultural Affairs Law 12.01," EASL Vol 23, Issue 1. 2023.
"Moral Rights of the Artist (when Present): an Updated US Perspective." The Art Law Review. January 2023.
"Deaccessioning at the time of Covid: Effect of Pandemic on Legal Issues in Museum Administration." EASL. Summer 2021.
"Moral Rights and Droite de Suite," The Art Law Review. January 2021.
"Reputation is no Substitute to Due Diligence: Lessons from the Closure of the Knoedler Gallery (1857-2011)." Art, Law and Crises of Connoisseurship Conference Proceedings. Fall 2017.
"Due Diligence in Provenance Research." Proceedings from the 6th International Conference of Experts on the Return of Cultural Property. Fall 2017.
"Copyright Corrida: ‘Charging Bull’." 26.2 Bright Ideas: Int'l Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association 21. Summer 2017.
Evelien Campfens and Irina Tarsis. "Cri-me-a-River! Crimean Gold at the Crosshairs of Geopolitics." IFAR Journal. Summer 2017.
Conferences and Presentations
Art Law Lunch Talks, Center for Art Law Webinar Series, online, July 2020-present.
"Ukraine: An Unfolding Cultural Tragedy," 2023 Art and Fashion Law Conference, April 2023.
"Ukraine on My Mind: Cultural Heritage and the Current Armed Conflict," Fordham Law Conference, October 2022.
"Money Laundering, Sanctions and Corporate Transparency: Risks and Solutions for the US Art Market in 2020 and Beyond," Responsible Art Market Online Conference, November 2020.
"New Directions: Which Way USA? Survey of the anti-money laundering initiatives," Art Law Foundation Conference on Responsible Art Market, Geneva, Switzerland, January 2019.
"Claiming and Disclaiming Ownership: Russian, Ukrainian, both or neither?" Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation, Washington, DC, April 2018.
"(Dis)Claiming Pasts: Ownership, Responsibility and Contestation," KANTL Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal en Letteren, Ghent, Belgium, December 2017.
"It’s About Rights: Street Art and Copyright," Copyright Society Meeting, NYC, October 2017.
Courses
- HA 409 Art and Museum Law