Art Law Deskbook

Professor Michael D. Murray is the lead author of Volume 1 of the Art Law Deskbook. Professor Michael D. Murray graduated from Loyola College in Maryland and from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He was a member of a national champion Jessup International Law Moot Court team at Columbia, and Notes Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. After law school, he clerked for United States District Judge John F. Nangle of the Eastern District of Missouri, and Chair of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Murray also practiced commercial, intellectual property, and products liability litigation for seven years at Bryan Cave law firm in St. Louis. After leaving private practice, Professor Murray taught at Saint Louis University School of Law from 1998–2002, the University of Illinois College of Law from 2002–2008, Valparaiso University School of Law from 2008 to 2015, and the University of Michigan Law School from 2015-2016. He currently teaches at the University of Kentucky College of Law. He has taught International Art Law in the University of San Diego Law School's summer 2007 and summer 2009 international and comparative law programs in Florence, Italy. Professor Murray was the director of Valparaiso's 2010 London-Cambridge Program in which he taught International and Comparative Civil Liberties: Freedom of Expression at Cambridge. Professor Murray currently has published twenty-one books and numerous law review articles on art law and other topics.

Leonard D. DuBoff, founder of the law firm The DuBoff Law Group, PC, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Hofstra University with a degree in engineering and Summa Com Laude from Brooklyn Law School where he was the research editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. He was a professor of law for almost a quarter of a century, first teaching at Stanford Law School, then at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. He also taught at the Hastings College of Civil Advocacy and lectured for the AAA of the Hague Academy of International Law. He is the founder and past chairperson of the Art Law section of the Association of American Law Schools; the founder and past president of the Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts; the former president of the Tigard, Tualatin, and Sherwood Arts Commission; past member of the board of the Oregon Committee for the Humanities; former Special Projects Coordinator for the National Endowment for the Arts; and a recipient of the governor of Oregon's prestigious Arts Award in 1990. DuBoff has testified in Congress in support of many laws discussed in this text, including the Visual Artist's Rights Act of 1990. In fact, he assisted in drafting that law as well. He is also responsible for drafting and testifying in support of numerous states' art laws and is a practicing attorney specializing in the field of art law. He represents museums, galleries, dealers, artists and craftspeople in virtually every aspect of the field. His scholarly articles and books are frequently cited by courts and commentators. DuBoff is a pioneer of the field of art law and remains one of its most important and influential scholars. He is a prolific author of law review articles and other publications on art law and has written sixteen books on art law. He has written numerous books on other business related subjects as well.

Christy A. King is an attorney in Portland, Oregon, where she practices law with The DuBoff Law Group, PC, in the areas of intellectual property, business and corporate law. She is coauthor of Art Law in a Nutshell (5th ed., West 2016), The Law (In Plain English)® for Photographers (3rd ed., Allworth Press), The Law (In Plain English)® for Doctors, Dentists and Other Health Professionals (Sphinx Press, 2008), and The Law (In Plain English) ® for Restaurants and Others in the Food Industry (Sphinx Press, 2006). She is editor of the client newsletter published by her firm and author and coauthor of numerous articles in the fields of intellectual property and art law. King graduated cum laude from Lewis & Clark Law School.

Professor James A.R. Nafziger is the Thomas B. Stoel Professor of Law; Director of International Law Programs at Willamette University College of Law. He received his J.D. from Harvard University, where he was the note and comment editor for the Harvard International Law Journal; his M.A. and B.A. are from the University of Wisconsin, where he was Phi Beta Kappa with high honors. Nafziger was a Henry Luce Fellow and Administrative Director of the American Society of International Law. Professor Nafziger is also Honorary Professor of the East China University of Politics and Law. He has been a member of the full-time law faculties at the University of Oregon, Marquette University (as the Boden Visiting Professor), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (as a Fulbright Lecturer), and the National and Otgontenger Universities in Mongolia (as a Fulbright lecturer). He has also taught extensively at the University of California-Davis, University of Wisconsin, Trinity College in Dublin, the University of Barcelona, and other institutions. At Willamette, Professor Nafziger has taught and written extensively in the fields of international law and dispute resolution, conflict of laws, international business transactions, cultural heritage law, sports law, immigration and refugee law, comparative law, and international arbitration and litigation. He initiated and served as a reporter of Oregon's codification of choice-of-law rules (the world's first common law jurisdiction to do so). Professor Nafziger is the former president and chair of the executive committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association (ILA) and currently serves as a Vice Chair of the ILA. He also serves as secretary of the American Society of International Law and as a member of its Executive Council and Executive Committee. Professor Nafziger has authored or edited a dozen books, more than 135 published articles and chapters in books, and 100 other writings.