The Yearbook is to provide those in the heritage management world with summaries of notable court cases, settlements and other dispositions, legislation, government regulations, policies and agency decisions that affect their work. Interviews with key figures, refereed research articles, think pieces, and a substantial resources section will round out each volume. Thoughtful analyses and useful information from leading practitioners in the diverse field of cultural property law will assist government land managers, state, tribal and museum officials, attorneys, anthropologists, archaeologists, public historians, and others to better preserve, protect and manage cultural property in domestic and international venues.

The 2006 volume will highlight interviews with Martin Sullivan, director of Historic Maryland City, as well as featured articles on ownership of cultural property and the common law by Tobias Halvorson and a retrospective on the Antiquities Act of 1906 by Richard Waldbauer and Sherry Hutt. All royalties are donated to the Lawyer’s Committee on Cultural Heritage Preservation.