Dr. Lucille A. Roussin, Esq.

Lucille A. Roussin is the founder and Director of the Holocaust Restitution Claims Practicum at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, where she also teaches a seminar on Remedies for War Time Confiscation.  She is also in private practice concentrating in Art and Cultural Heritage Law.  She earned her law degree in 1996 from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was a Belkin Scholar.  Dr. Roussin was Deputy Research Director of the Art and Cultural Property Team of the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the US and was an associate in the Art and International Law Practice Group at Herrick, Feinstein LLP in New York City.  In 2001 she negotiated the first restitution of a rare Jewish ritual object to a private family in the United States, and has negotiated an insurance settlement for a world renowned set designer who portfolio had been destroyed in a flood.  She also teaches a course on “Art, the Law and Professional Ethics” in the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Dr. Roussin earned a Ph.D. in Art History & Archaeology from Columbia University and was a Fulbright scholar in Israel in 1974-75.  She has written and lectured extensively on archaeological subjects and is currently a member of the Cultural Properties Legislation and Policy Committee of the Archaeological Institute of America, Co-Chair of the Art and Cultural Heritage Committee of the Section of International Law and Practice of the American Bar Association, a member of the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association, and a member of the board of the Lawyer's Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation.  Dr. Roussin is a frequent lecturer on Holocaust-era looted art and provenance research.  Her recent publications include “Cultural Heritage and Identity,” 11 Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law 707 (2003) and  “Holocaust-Era Looted Art: The Route into the United States,” in the International Foundation for Art Research Journal, Vol.5 (2002).