Charron Spearheads New Art Arbitration Court

William Charron, Co-Chair of Pryor Cashman's Art Law Group, was recently interviewed by his alma mater, University of Virginia School of Law, about the new court of arbitration for art law disputes he conceived. 

(Portions of the interview are reprinted below) 

Can you describe your career and what led you to art law? 

I began my career as a litigator in 1998. In 2000, I moved to Pryor Cashman, which has always had a particularly strong intellectual property practice in the media and entertainment space. I quickly found myself handling numerous copyright, trademark, right of publicity and other "soft IP" cases in the entertainment space.

One of our entertainment clients came to us one day because he was trying to sell a work of art that he bought in good faith in the 1960s but was alleged to have been stolen by Nazis during World War II. World War II art restitution cases were relatively new to the legal scene at that point, and this became a