On the one hand, the role of the art lawyer has been to lubricate the wheels of commerce. But this approach runs the risk of missing the most illuminating contributions to art law itself.

Sonia K. Katyal & Joan Kee
Sonia K. Katyal is a Chancellor's Professor of Law at University of California, Berkeley and co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Joan Kee is Associate Professor in the History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is completing a book on contemporary art's relationship to law.