May 13, 2008
Lauren Fae Silver has been granted a Fulbright award to study
and do research at the University of Rome III where she will be
sponsored by the distinguished comparative law professor Vincenzo
Zeno-Zenovich during the 2008-2009 academic year.
In October, she will begin to explore the evolution of Italy’s
cultural property laws and assess whether Italy’s legal and
non-legal strategies can be used to formulate a much-needed model
for combating the illicit trade in cultural property commonly
occurring in less economically developed countries. In
addition, she will explore how this model may be employed in the
future to preserve and protect American cultural
property.
The Fulbright
Program was established in 1946 by the U.S. Congress “to enable
the government of the United States to increase mutual
understanding between the people of the United States and the
people of other countries”. It is the largest U.S.
International exchange program offering opportunities for students,
scholars and professionals to undertake international graduate
study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in
elementary and secondary schools worldwide. In 2007, the program
awarded approximately six thousand grants, at a cost of more than
$262 million, to U.S. students, teachers, professionals, and
scholars to study, teach, lecture, and conduct research in more
than 155 countries, and to their foreign counterparts to engage in
similar activities in the United States.