Our second Art Law Supplement examines cultural property export regulations; the legal loopholes in their international enforcement and the latest proposed solution: the controversial 1995 Unidroit Convention on Stolen and Illegally Exported Cultural Objects. We also deal with art and artists on the edge of society, in articles on censorship and the creations of the mentally ill

Technicality spares the sellers of the Quedlinburg treasure

Fake rabbis rob Spanish monastery

8,000 works stored for over forty years in the medieval monastery at Mauerbach

Former acquaintances in Dallas’s gay scene report war booty on show in his apartment

In the last of our series which publishes talks given in London this summer, Professor Sir John Boardman, Lincoln Professor Emeritus of classical archaeology and art at Oxford, singles out three areas for concern.

Next month the Belgian city of Ghent is mounting a high-tech search for a panel of Van Eyck's masterpiece missing since 1934

The meeting produced revelations, but little hope that the return of looted art will be eased

Scotland Yard launches computer system with international potential

Conference in Prague on public galleries and private collectors hears of thefts and restitution claims in Eastern museums

Grab and smash operation on 11 November

A commission will be set up at Gorbachev’s behest to look into cultural property removed to U.S.S.R.

Conservation projects are urgently needed, however hope is found underneath the Phnom Penh museum

The reluctant collector: “The ugliest things I ever did see....only good for chasing away ghosts”

Soviet collectors appeal for protection from KGB